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In Search of My Balls
Are we all becoming women? Like many guys, I have had this very bizarre relationship to my manhood, my nuts, my machismo, my guy-ness, that thing that continues to make me want to have sex with my...
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Finding My ‘Animal House’ Friends
Jim Higley rediscovers the bucket of friends that helped define his life while throwing a toga party or two. Every once in a while my kids have to sit through my lecture about friends. I give it when...
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Are We All Becoming Women?
In Search of My Balls Like many guys, I have had this very bizarre relationship to my manhood, my nuts, my machismo, my guy-ness, that thing that continues to make me want to have sex with my wife...
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Lunchroom Logistics
Inside school cafeterias are complex societies full of a hyper-awareness of social status, in which popularity is traded like stock. Carl Bosch has put in 10,119 days as an educator, with 56 left to...
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My First R-Rated Movie with My Dad
Jamie Reidy shares the funny story of the first time he and his father watched an R-Rated movie together: “Animal House.” That Saturday night in 1982 marked an unprecedented moment in Reidy family...
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A Reel Education: What My Father Taught Me at the Movies
I’ve learned the most from my dad when we’re sitting in the dark with our mouths closed, my head on his shoulder as the opening credits flicker into place. — My father and I are serious about...
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Dark Hair = Masculinity
Cameron Conaway on the taking and making of modern masculinity Greasy pizza boxes on the floor, dog hair matted in the rug and an intense game of beer pong going on upstairs. There I stood inside the...
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Harold Ramis, RIP
The world is a little less funny now. — The saddest thing on a lot of people’s Facebook feeds today is “Oh no, the guy who played Egon died!” It’s sad not just because of the loss of a giant of...
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The Dirty Two Dozen: Movie Bad Guys Who Crack Us Up, Part I
Mike Kasdan takes a look the iconic movie bad guys we love to laugh at, from Shooter McGavin to Principal Rooney to Mr. Pink. — Earlier this year, I wrote a short article for The Good Men Project...
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Let’s Hear It For The (Frat) Boys!
Throw the stereotypes out the window. These fraternity brothers are compassionate, caring and community minded. — What comes to mind when you hear the word Fraternity? A group of partying, wild and...
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16 Life Lessons I’ve Learned From the Movies
Embed from Getty Images It’s funny where you pick-up bits and pieces of inspiration over the years. — Sometimes it’s from a mentor. Sometimes we learn our best lessons from our failures. And,...
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Awakening of the Nerd
Embed from Getty Images — When I was a younger man, I loved the movie “Revenge of the Nerds.” I was a disenfranchised nerd, so its message of the underdogs overcoming the beautiful people resonated...
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White Gaze, Black Panther, Animal House
Embed from Getty Images — Black Panther premiered this week to tremendous box office numbers. As of this writing, it is just shy of $200M domestically, and over $350M globally. That indicates...
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The Dangerous, Anti-Male Bigotry of the ‘Every Teenage Boy’ Kavanaugh Defense
Embed from Getty Images — Amid the onslaught of opinions and theories surrounding the Brett Kavanaugh scandal lies yet another deeply disturbing one that few people seem to notice: Many of his...
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Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devolved!
In 1970, following the wake of the Kent State University shootings, three art students from the university formed a band around the concept of de-evolution, their theory that humanity was degrading....
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