Tag Archives: Friendship
Not Oprah’s Book Club: Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection
Tweet Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection by developmental psychologist Niobe Way is a must-read for anyone concerned with the so-called “boy crisis,” anyone who is raising a boy in the U.S., and anyone who doubts that feminism can—and should—improve the lives of boys and men. In this richly-researched book, based on [...]
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The Wednesday Weigh-In: When you want to bone your friends
TweetIt’s been far too long since we’ve discussed sex in the Wednesday Weigh-In. Over the Good Men Project, Hugo Schwyzer challenges the conventional wisdom that you can’t be friends with someone to whom you’re sexually attracted. In part, he blames the assumption that desire makes platonic friendship impossible on the myth of uncontrollable male desire: [...]
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Feminism animates
TweetI had the great pleasure of hearing Philly-based painter and animator, Jennifer Levonian, speak at the Santa Fe Art Institute when I was home visiting my parents a couple of weeks ago. She started out primarily doing still watercolors, but took an animation class on a whim while in art school and fell in love [...]
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Men’s egos so fragile, the wrong friendships will lead to erectile dysfunction