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6 Questions to Ask Children Concerning Their Education
Embed from Getty Images If we can begin to have some casual conversations about what we take for granted we can come to a place where we see life for the wonderment that it is.—The days of walking and...
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Men in Debt: Is it Time to Chase a Different Carrot?
Embed from Getty ImagesWhat is required to liberate us from the absolute stronghold the debt narrative has over our industrial global culture?–––Once upon a time there was a community that believed...
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Running Across the Grand Canyon is a Lesson in Humility
The Grand Canyon is not there to entertain us… Apparently I was wrong.___On May 30, 2016 at 6:22am I dipped into the Grand Canyon from the more remote North Rim. I have been to the canyon 13 times in...
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Dear Liberals, We Need to Talk
Embed from Getty ImagesOnce we understand our role, then can we begin to accept our responsibilities and move towards an existence where it’s not all about us.—I would like to interrupt your regularly...
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2.5 Million Tons and What do You Get?
Embed from Getty ImagesThe Fourth of July, 2016. I hope you enjoy your fireworks and the celebrations back in the USA. –––Here in Lao PDR, I am thinking about other kinds of fireworks that fell on...
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Intersectionality in the Intersections of Portland, Oregon
Embed from Getty Images—If today’s marches are any indication, which they are, we should get ready for four years of non stop protest.Huge crowd in Chicago for the women’s march. It’s certainly...
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The Best in GMP Political Writing—100 Days Behind, with a Movement Ahead
Embed from Getty ImagesThe #First100Days series aimed to “bear witness” to the first 13 weeks of the Trump administration and the climate for men, dads, and their families in America and then respond...
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Paul Bunyan and John Henry: A Call for Submissions
Embed from Getty Images—A picture is worth a thousand words. How does this image from 1943 resonate with our current times? What are your 1000 (non-fiction) words this image inspires?◊♦◊The Good Men...
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The Man Might Kill Me, Could a Plate of Potatoes Save My Life?
View image | gettyimages.com–––Guatemala City, 18 Calle, behind the bus station.The man approached as I was getting some street food. Three tear drop tattoos dripped from his eye. Tattered pants...
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Confronting the Shore
Shape me, shadow meHusk of crabLine between sea green and collagenJelly Reaches outTwo steps sand one half dollarCrushed into shoreElevation zero Join The Good Men Project Community.“Here’s the thing...
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We Can Change the World, One Conversation at a Time
—Just a little over a year ago, I connected with Hilary Lauren Jastram in a Facebook group for writers and learned more about The Good Men Project. I had been reading their articles for some time...
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Embed from Getty ImagesFor the past two years, I’ve kept a pile of candy by my front door. Halloween, Christmas, and Easter come knocking every year, but I don’t give it away. This candy remains by...
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Let’s Talk About Porn, Sexism, and What’s Really Going on in Men’s (and...
RSVP for #StopSexism Weekly Calls Monday Nights at 7:30 PM ESTWhat’s really going on in men’s heads in regards to sex and porn?Or women’s?How about sexism?Is the field “level,” or are our current...
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Could There Have Been a Third Gender in Eden?
A concept of two genders not only limits ourselves but may be at the root of environmental destruction.***“Through acknowledgement of the existence of third genders throughout history, we can begin to...
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Wielding Stereotypes as a Power of Privilege
Embed from Getty ImagesWe all know the stereotype of the nagging wife, the complaining woman, and the library of jokes that support oppression.Have you recently sat at a table of cishet white men who...
View ArticleBoyhood Loathing Turns to Professional Passion
Embed from Getty ImagesMy childhood loathing of grammar became my professional passion.I hated English class in primary school. I didn’t like English class in secondary school either, but I grew to...
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Between Men and Women, Where Is the Hope?
I found hope for the relations between men and women at a table on a sidewalk.Six people were sitting at the table, both benches filled, no room for any others. There was tension, even though everyone...
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The Pull of the Ocean
Night tide comes Waves break so close to shore more than once I wake ready to run Then tide sucks out, sand a vacuum in ebb’s wake Finally, give in. The draw pulls me down to the break As tide goes way...
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An Oral History of Oral Histories
“I’ve been wanting to write an “Oral History of . . . oral histories,” since – well – every time I read an oral history. So today, I just went ahead and did.” — The odd thing about oral histories is...
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Hobo Ethical Code of 1889
Recently, Edie Weinstein wrote an article about when she was raising her son, and how she had to create a list of House Rules. Edie’s list of House Rules immediately reminded me of the Hobo Ethical...
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