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Can You Be Gay By Choice?
Choosing one’s own (sexual) identity: Shifting the terms of the ‘gay rights’ debate Can you be gay by choice? Consider the following, from the Huffington Post: Former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia...
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Why I Purchased My First Hand Gun
One man from an anti-gun culture comes to embrace firearms and the responsibility and freedom they embody. Author’s note: I completed this essay about a week before the shooting in Aurora, Colorado. It...
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Shut Up Introverts: Ambiverts Deserve Attention, Too!
We are Ambiverts. We reject the simplistic introvert/extrovert continuum. “There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.” ~Carl G Jung Dear...
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Soiled Hands Heal Abuse
––– Positive male role models are all around us. You don’t have to look too hard to find them. Ben Lawson presents his way of existing justly. Ben Lawson has learned how to cultivate justice within...
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What’s in a Game of Catch?
On this Mother’s Day, Claire Thurston offers her insights on the connections fathers can forge through that quintessential American pastime, a simple game of catch. A Game of Catch: I’m my own person...
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Consume! On Bros and Defining the American Dream
The real issue with male apathy toward education is how it’s framed. It’s a language problem. __________ THE SALIENT FACTS I’m a 26 year-old white bro with a BA in English from a large research...
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My First Doctor’s Visit in Fifteen Years
View image | gettyimages.com Why don’t men go to the doctor? _____ By Aaron Gilbreath Nine years had passed since I’d had health insurance, though it was at least fifteen since my last routine...
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Keep Calm Or You’re Fired
The modern economy is not driven by mindless automatons scurrying to avoid the unemployment rolls; rather, it’s about excited and engaged professionals disrupting the status quo by creating profound...
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How Being Too Independent Has Kept You Single
Jordan Gray says that, as much as we often try to resist it, leaning on others is healthy. —– Western society loves its steady junk food diet of independence and autonomy. We are constantly being...
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Marieme Helie Lucas, International Women’s Rights, Empowerment, and Advocacy
Embed from Getty Images — Marieme Helie Lucas is an Algerian sociologist, activist, founder of ‘Secularism is a Women’s Issue,’ and founder and former International Coordinator of ‘Women Living Under...
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How to Be More Intimate: What’s your Intimacy Index
Embed from Getty Images — There’s a lot of confusion about intimacy: what it really is and how to make it happen. There are couples who have been married decades who can be physically close but don’t...
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The Importance of Letting Your Child Develop Interests Organically
Embed from Getty Images — You played soccer, so you want your child to play and enjoy soccer. You were in the school band, so you want your child to try-out for it too. Maybe you never pursued your...
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Autonomy and Equity Values and Preferences in Practical Terms
Embed from Getty Images — Professor Gordon Guyatt, MD, MSc, FRCP, OC is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact and Medicine at McMaster...
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Fate is Way More Powerful Than You
— The modern Western man has a deeply-bred abhorrence for the concept known as “fate.” It is archaic at best, but to most (especially to Americans) it is an offensive heresy. Does fate control your...
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It Is Not ‘Just’ a Hug
Hugging and cuddling are wonderful ways to connect with family and loved ones. But in all seriousness- stop forcing girls to hug and be cuddly when they don’t want to. Or any child for that matter....
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Teamwork and Collaboration
Team Family! I have to hand it to my wife. She introduced a fine concept to our boys some time ago. It’s called, Team Family, and she uses it when the boys help out with something, either each other,...
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Put the ‘I’ in Independence
— Where is your power center? Is it in you or in other people or circumstances? Control is important to codependents. They struggle with independence. Paradoxically, controlling people often believe...
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How Love Changed Me
Men do not often define themselves in connection to other people. To be a man is to be an island that can weather any storm. Autonomy has always been among my most entrenched values. To me, it’s...
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Do You Identify as the Victim?
— All of us have had something happen in our lives that we didn’t prefer to have happened. Perhaps that event was a one-time thing, or perhaps it was ongoing. Yesterday at an outdoor coffee shop, I...
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The Three Power Systems: Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Responsible Autonomy
— By Michel Bauwens In my presentations on the emergence of the peer to peer mode of production, governance, and property, I always insist on the difference between decentralized and distributed...
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