Good Is Good
Who Creates Jobs (and Other Critical Questions)
The most important thing we can do is treat our human capital in this country as our most precious national resource.
Business Ethics
Grow Fangs
“Never allow limited resources to limit your imagination. Bite off more than you can chew. Then grow fangs.”
Manners Made To Order
When did manners in the business place become a rarity? Ken Goldstein reflects on the ever-changing environment of the workplace.
Men Over 50
Getting Old? Absolutely Not!
Graham Phoenix refuses to get old and expects to become a cantankerous old man.
Men Are Funny
Sex & Relationships
6 Reasons ‘Why Women Aren’t Crazy’ is Only Part of the Story
How listening changes everything: Mark Greene seeks a non-gender binary discussion of gas lighting.
My Future Father-in-Law Thinks I Should Be a ‘Girly Man’
A man wonders why his fiancé’s father assumes that he should be girly, simply because he’s the shorter one in the relationship.
DadsGood
10 from the Archives
The Happy Hour Miscarriage in Paradise
How many times can you lose a child without even having one before things change?
My Ex-Wife’s Wedding: Best. Wedding. Ever.
After a marriage fraught with difficulties, Steve Jaeger finds the wedding of his ex-wife to be a day of joy.
How Do You Maintain Your Manhood and Dignity While Living Underemployed?
A lot of things haven’t fallen the right way for Brian E., but failure isn’t an option.
Invisible Father
Robert Peake believes that for fathers and non-fathers alike, “the best in us involves us giving back in ways that are uniquely male.”
On Boys, Suicide, and the Lessons of Unfilled Holes
“We need to teach our boys that they can bear suffering and loss without shame … that anger is a question that deserves deeper answers than punishment or silence.”
#OccupyVCs?
Paul Kix explores how VCs made 100s of millions personally while destroying billions of dollars of working class pension money.
My Life as a Hermit Crab
After a tragic childhood, P.M. Leonard built up a shell, but he’s finding a way to see the light again.
Awaiting Vesuvius
When a romance is over, it’s over. The problem according to Jackie Summers, is that no one ever evacuates Pompeii until the volcano erupts.
When Playboy Bunnies Ruled
At 17, most girls are filling out college applications. I was nervously auditioning to become a Bunny at the New York Playboy Club.
Hi, My Name Is Tom and I Can’t Put Down My Blackberry
Tom Matlack has a problem: he’s addicted to technology and social media.
Education and Boys
55 Years in School: Pondering the Pencil Grip
What does the way a student grips a pencil tell us about education?
Weekend Fiction
The Heart of My House
The home has long been a powerful metaphor, and for good reason. The place where we live comes to represent us. But here is a story I haven’t seen before, where the homeowner cannot seem to see his house as it is. Where he can’t stop seeing it as a metaphor. —Matt Salesses, Good Men Project [...]
Sports
The Errant Heel: Episode 6
In Episode Six, Brian and Tom discuss misogynist high school baseball teams and the sleepy heroes of the Clemens trial jury, all while exploring a new studio space.
The Issues of Men’s Rights
Regarding the Suppression of Men’s Issues
Mark Greene believes our male cultural history, the steps we took to get here, make ignoring boys and men as victims a likely outcome.
Mentoring and Volunteering
All Children Are Born With Potential: A Talk with Wendy Foster of Big Brothers, Big Sisters
Wendy Foster talks about the ways a friendship-based model of mentoring our youth can create positive change.
Male Heartbreak
Love Conquers All—Except, Maybe, the Bottle
Mika Doyle’s first love taught her that love is not enough to sustain a relationship.
Conflict
The Flight 93 Memorial: A Travesty on a Tragedy
Cameron Conaway’s recent trip to the Flight 93 Memorial left him heartbroken, but not in the way he expected.
Learning
Please Sir, Can I Read Some More
When Kalimah Priforce was eight years old and in foster care, he got more books the only way he could. He went on a hunger strike.
Polyamory
Adventures in Polyamory
A champion of sexual freedom, Henry Vandenburgh navigates an open marriage and doesn’t miss a beat.
The Presumption of Male Guilt
When Women Fear Men
Statistics don’t make us safe, Lisa Hickey says. Self-empowerment and facing our fears do.
Prison
The Prison-Industrial Complex is Anti-Man
Ozy Frantz takes on the prison-industrial complex and how it affects the lives of American men.
Health, Psychology & Addiction
Lost Boy
Sneaking out, smoking pot, stealing from step-dad’s wallet—Gabi Coatsworth wonders if she should have seen her son’s bipolar diagnosis coming.
Act Like a Man
Struggling to be the best man you can be? Sounds like you need group therapy, man style.
Marriage and Divorce
Inoculated Against Divorce
When the country’s divorce rate is tracked by the Center for Disease Control, tying the knot takes a lot of guts. Many couples, like Brian Blickenstaff and his fiancée, are turning to pre-marriage counseling for support.
The End of Gender
Ethics & Values
Invisible Men
Like all human beings, men need connections in their lives; we need to be able to share our experiences and seek support.
Gender Politics
Undercover at a Christian Gay-to-Straight Conversion Camp
Ted Cox took on the identity of a closeted Mormon for a weekend of crying, singing, and wrestling. It was the first time he felt another man’s erection.
Man to Man
Man-to-Man with Animated American Producer Bill Schultz
Savas Abadsidis sits down with animation producer Bill Schultz to discuss baseball, entertainment, and the value of a good father.
Families
How to Talk to Your Children About Gay Parents, By a Gay Parent
Jerry Mahoney offers a list of techniques to teach children about accepting different types of families.
Advice & Confessions
Dear John: Lost Cats and Lecherous Cads
Did my neighbor steal my cat? Why do older men hit on younger women? Dear John answers these and more tough questions this week.
Men and Dating
Arts & Entertainment
Class Acts: Hollywood’s Actors Who Went to College
Find out where your favorite A-lister went to get their smarts
Gender and Sexuality
Marriage Equality: Making it Their Special Day
“Today, I think most marriages aim for equality. Let’s move away from making it her special day and start making it their special day.”
Male Lust
Harry Was Wrong: Lust Doesn’t Have to Ruin a Platonic Friendship
One of our great myths about men is that lust invariably cancels out the empathy.
Signs of Our Times
Love and Middle School
Nick Florest realizes that telling a middle-schooler to “get over it” when his heart is broken is not the soundest of advice.
Men and Feminism
The First Myth of Patriarchy: The Acorn on the Pillow
Tad Hargrave explains how patriarchy and masculinity are not the same thing, and privilege is not good for anyone.
Platonic Relationships
Photoessay
A Conversation With Tim Hetherington
“He was like Hercules. I’m surprised the shell that killed him didn’t just bounce off.”
Project Unbreakable
Grace Brown photographs survivors of sexual abuse with posters that hold quotes from their attackers. TRIGGER WARNING.
On Rape and Sexual Violence
Victims of the Crime
When Paul Kidwell’s girlfriend was raped years ago, the devastation of her trauma extended to their relationship, and though they have both moved on, that memory remains part of their lives.
On Race
Women’s Obsession with Beauty
The Ugly Duckling as Gender-Neutral Beauty Ideal
‘The Ugly Duckling’ provides a lesson in beauty and acceptance for everyone, regardless of gender.
Erogenous Zones
On Penises: Average and Normal Are Not the Same Thing
Noah Brand talks about the difficult task of accepting one’s own genitals.
Technology
You Need Rights Like the Internet Needs Pants
Technology author and system administrator Tom Limoncelli says it’s time to create an internet user bill of rights.
Historical Perspectives on Goodness
The Greatest Generation
We can find the ultimate example of the Good Generation in the Greatest Generation.
Politics
The Spirituality of #Occupy
Jack Varnell looks at the #Occupy movement through the lens of “everything has spiritual consequences”.
Should The GMP Discuss Politics?
In response to Tom Matlack, Mark Ellis wonders whether straying into politics may hurt the Good Men Project.
Editors’ Picks
Ouch
How do you make up for accidentally setting your fiancée’s hair on fire? Write an essay about it, of course.
Think Like a Mountain
A Wisconsin teacher uses an essay about wolves to teach her students about empathy, environmentalism, and looking at all sides of a complex issue.
Men and Social Media
Why I’m Social-Media Promiscuous
Good Men Media CEO Lisa Hickey wants you—and Malcom Gladwell—to know: the revolution can be tweeted.
Vocalyze
“Why do people care if someone gets caught nude? What is there to judge?”
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