Courtney E. Martin, The American Prospect. November 14, 2009. Many young men reject the trappings of traditional, sexist masculinity. But what's the alternative?
Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check. November 12, 2009. It's bad enough the media teaches my daughter harmful gender stereotypes. Does she have to get it at school, too?
Charles A. Hohman, PopMatters. July 24, 2009. "Born in the U.S.A.", which turns 25 this year, stresses male sexuality as imperative to the American Dream. Where does that leave women?
Deborah Siegel, The Women's Media Center. January 21, 2009. Most families need two wage earners to survive. But many rich couples purchased regressive gender roles through inflated Bush-era incomes.
Dorothy Woodend, The Tyee. January 9, 2009. Gran Torino shows that, after doing considerable damage to the world, men's time of retribution has finally come. And now they want us to pity them.
Martha McCaughey, American Sexuality Magazine. October 24, 2008. The watered-down evolutionary psychology prevalent in pop culture enables some men to rationalize sexist double standards about relationships.
Marco Lanzagorta, PopMatters. April 6, 2008. "Die Hard" is a militaristic fantasy that serves as an allegory for an outnumbered and out-gunned America.
Christie Church, Girlistic Magazine. March 26, 2008. Feminism helps us face the challenge of being complex people in a society that reduces us to pink and blue.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. February 21, 2008. Author Benjamin Percy discusses masculinity, fiction writing about Iraq, and how he got into writing to impress a girl.
Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. February 19, 2008. The idea that liberated women don't prepare food -- because they are too busy having sex and building their careers -- is just plain wrong.
Eric Deggans, Huffington Post. January 26, 2008. The hysteria over Ledger's death and the imbalance of coverage for women highlights a need for better journalism about troubled celebrities.
Robert Jensen, South End Press. November 17, 2007. Most men have, at some point, feared not being masculine enough, especially in the bedroom. Pornography speaks to that fear.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. September 22, 2007. Mainstream porn has come up with more ways than ever to humiliate and degrade women. Why then, is porn more popular? Includes an excerpt from Robert Jensen's new book, Getting Off.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. June 20, 2007. This summer, at a time when the media is dominated by bombastic male voices, New York City's Culture Project's multidisciplined festival of women voices provides a welcome antidote.
Stan Goff, Truthdig. October 14, 2006. The precursors of fascism -- militarization of culture, vigilantism, masculine fear of female power, xenophobia and economic destabilization -- are ascendant in America today.
