“The Perils of Mixing Masculinity and Missiles”

“I started thinking about this over three decades ago, when I was working among civilian nuclear strategists, war planners, weapons scientists and arms controllers. What struck me was how removed they were from the human realities behind the…

“What a Cross-Dressing Lady Knight Taught Me About Gender and Sexuality”

“My freshman year at Saint Francis began in the fall of 1999, a time when there were very few YA novels about gay teens. But even if more had existed, I would have been too afraid to read them: afraid both…

“Kristen Roupenian on the Self-Deceptions of Dating”

“Margot, choosing between having sex she doesn’t want and “seeming spoiled and capricious,” decides to have unwanted sex. She thinks (or tells herself) that she isn’t afraid that Robert will “force” her, and I think, on one level, that’s…

“What makes some men sexual harassers? Science tries to explain the creeps of the world.”

“Over the years, Pryor — a psychologist at Illinois State University — and others have used socially engineered situations in laboratories to study how well the test predicts…

“Shawn Vestal: The problem with men who harass, and the men who enable them, is not a lack of training”

“It’s not about what men don’t know.

It’s about what men have known too well: That we can get away with it. That it will be…

“The General Who Went to War On Suicide”

“Pittard made the services available to all soldiers — whether or not there was any reason to believe they were at risk of killing themselves — because he believed everyone was vulnerable to suicide. It was a position that put him at odds with commonly held…

“THE STATEMENT: MASCULINITY. A TIGHT ASS GRIP”

“Our January 2018 digital conversation is an invitation to join us in this probing for answers as we delve deeper. We are asking men the questions that might allow us to get to the root of the thirst for control and power that is at the heart of…

“Woman World”

“A group of women gab and hang out in a post apocalyptic future where men are extinct and the survival of humanity is at stake.”