by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 24, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
So today my month of joblessness ended. I’ve endured the Time of my Non-Earning with stoicism, strength and courage (the names I gave, hurricanestyle, to the three major panic attacks I had) but as the user’s manual for MegaMan 8 says, there is a...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 24, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I was raised on Irish Spring TV commercials (among other things). The woman who snuck a deep long whiff of the green bar when her man wasn’t looking was really sexy, Irish but with long dark hair, if I remember right. Black Irish, as I came to learn later. But I...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 26, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
The website of Aaron Rochlen, a psychology professor at the University of Texas, is chock fulla man-related-program-activities. Rochlen writes about men, about why they don’t seek mental health treatment as much as they should, and what all of that has to do...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 28, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I just finished Self-Made Man, the new book by Norah Vincent which Jamie wrote about a few days ago:Self Made Man, which came out earlier this year, recounts journalist Vincent’s 18-months as a man. To clarify, it recounts her year and a half posing as a man....
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 28, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
So it appears I was inadvertently timely in my recent post that touched on men’s aversion to seeking help with their psyche and on the NFL’s attempts to “tackle mental health.” If you haven’t heard the news, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver...