Coming Out Again: Reaching, Building, Educating, Doing.
by: Joe Varisco About a month ago I found out that I am HIV positive. Adaptation, embrace change. I found that in speaking this news I was liberated and empowered […]
Category Archives: Men
We’re Not Really Going To Kill The Heckler: A Defense of Crass Humor
by: Mariann Devlin I’m hard to offend. Even when I do draw the line between funny and not-funny, it’s usually on account of the joke being tired and unoriginal, not […]
Guess What: Rape’s Not Funny When the Victim is a Man, Either
by: Miriam Mogilevsky I know Jezebel is low-hanging fruit, but I can’t resist picking apart their new “Sexytime Dilemmas” column and its endorsement of sexual assault, which apparently is okay when […]
Serial Dater: The Politics of Dating
by: Adam Guerino Serial Dater is a dating column inspired by a year-long sabbatical from dating. The author went from compulsively dating to abstaining from dating and decided to write […]
I’ve Never Been In Love
by: Max Alborn Well, it’s safer to say that I’ve never been in mutual love, where the word was spelled with a capital “L”. I’ve dated a few guys; crushed […]
The Blame Game: Battle of the Exes
by: Kathryn Carlisle I recently went through another round of my significant other’s ex girlfriend inserting herself into our relationship. Beyond any question of cheating (we were in a presumably […]
Remembering My Internet Boyfriend
by: Zach Stafford The other night, while at dinner with my roommate and a friend, the subject of Lena Dunham’s show Girls came up. At the time, I had not seen the […]
An Imperfect Deconstruction: The Cultural Effects of On The Road
by: Kevin Doherty In his day, Jack Kerouac defined a new generation of writers: the Beat generation. He and authors like him grew up reading the works of Francis Scott […]
Colonic Unrest: The Filthy Consequences of Doorless Stalls
by: Patrick Gill I, with some frequency, go to Boystown bars. I also, with greater frequency, have to evacuate my colon, and do so in toilets. I like to make […]
The Making of the Bro-Hug: Photographs of Early American Male Friendship
by Gail Goldsmith Men with their arms draped around each other, leaning against each other, linking arms–these pictures make the bro-hug look standoffish. These aren’t couples posing–these are the equivalent […]
