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Jim Young / Reuters 'Boys Have Deep Emotional Lives'
How parents, teachers, and schools can better understand young men: a conversation with Rosalind Wiseman about her new book, Masterminds and Wingmen.
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Found Poetry From Years of Tech Conference Sexism
In honor of "Titstare," an ode: to the soft bigotry of bro expectations
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How the Military's 'Bro' Culture Turns Women Into Targets
The sexual-assault epidemic plaguing the Armed Forces is rooted in a hypermasculine ethos that fosters predation.
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Alexis Madrigal On Becoming a Father
The birth of a child is also the birth of a parent.
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The Wedding Data: What Marriage Notices Say About Social Change
A new website transforms the unions of the social elite into interactive datasets.
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Woman/Boy Relationships in Pop Culture: No Big Deal
The Lifeguard, Adore, and A Teacher treat the women who commit or nearly commit statutory rape as less threatening than their male counterparts.
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Reuters The Real Reason Why Women Are Leaving Wall Street
“Wall Street is a specific culture. It is a specific culture of men.”
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flickr My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It
A lot of marriages don’t survive raising a gender-creative son who is, statistically speaking, most likely going to be gay or transgender as an adult. I wish I could to talk to those men. I wish I could be there for their kids.
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The Overhyped Rise of Stay-at-Home Dads
If anything, men have stopped taking on more responsibility at home in recent years.
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AP Images The First Female Celebrity to Embrace Parkinson's
The 1950s was not a time for open discussion of serious diseases—whether by celebrities or ordinary citizens.
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Erin Siegal/Reuters What It Was Like to Work at the Lusty Lady, a Unionized Strip Club
The San Francisco peep show closes September 2. A former stripper remembers the empowering atmosphere, even amidst a grueling schedule.
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debaird™/flickr Study: Boyfriends Insecure, Wish to Hoard Success for Themselves
Men felt worse about themselves and the future of their relationships in the face of a female partner’s success.
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Reuters Obama, Bayard Rustin, and the New LGBT Civil-Rights Movement
As the U.S. celebrates the equality movement of the 1960s, a new one is on the march. Could anyone have tethered the two like the first black president?
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The Terrible Lives of Chinese Sex Workers
The arrest of a high-profile investor for soliciting prostitution casts a spotlight on an unregulated industry where women risk social stigma, violence, and disease.
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Giving Kids Bikes Can Reduce Drop-Out Rates
A hipster-esque solution to a tough problem in India proves surprisingly effective.
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USA-Zumba/Reuters/Stringer Why I Quit MMA for Zumba
"I felt just as vulnerable walking onto the female-dominated dance floor as I had walking into the ring."
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Still Lots of Gay Jokes
Comedians call James Franco homosexual as funny premise.
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Schlesinger Library The Suffrage Movement, on the 93rd Anniversary of Its Biggest Success
Posters from more than a half century of political activism
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garryknight/flickr Ask Alison: The App That Lets Women Rate Men by Looks and Income
Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
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AP Photo/U.S. Army, File Getting Hormones and Surgery for Transgender Prisoners
The Army's blanket denial of hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery to Chelsea Manning may not be the final word on the matter.
