Mean Boys: Social Bullying Isn’t Just for Girls
A new study shows that boys can shun and ostracize with the best of them. We’ll have to drop our “mean girls” bias to better understand how they do it.
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New Benefits of Marriage Study Actually Hints at the Horrors of Middle Age
Marriage isn’t the happiness elixir America wants it to be. If anything, it simply distracts us from persisting economic and social injustices that undermine all types of relationships.
I Do, If You Will: Women Prefer Their Husbands to Be the Breadwinners
A new study reveals something decidedly vintage—but encourages us to think about gender in a new, and more nuanced, way.
Gendering #BlackLivesMatter: A Feminist Perspective
Black men are stereotyped as violent, while black women are rendered invisible. Here's why the gendering of black lives matters.
Silencing Women: Inside the National Coalition for Men
By outing rape accusers, the organization is poisoning the dialogue on campus sexual assault.
Why Don’t Men Read Romance Novels?
A lot of men just don't read fiction, and if they do, structural misogyny drives them away from the genre.
A Brief History of High Heels
How what was once standard footwear for 16th-century Persian horsemen became "fashion’s most provocative accessory."
The NFL, the Military, and the Problem With Masculine Institutions
Both the NFL and the U.S. military cultivate and reward a form of hyper-violent masculinity. The consequences of doing so have never been more obvious.
Behind Closed Doors: Rape, Murder, and the Misplaced Confidence of Men
What makes it so hard for some men to question their own assumptions and so easy for them to act boldly and brutally when faced with closed doors?
What’s Wrong With Trying to Engineer Your Child’s Sexual Orientation?
Or, more specifically, what's wrong with taking a steroid, while you're pregnant, to try to increase the odds that your female fetus will someday grow up to be a straight woman who gives you grandchildren, and not a lesbian daughter more interested in puppies?