Category Archives: Men and masculinity

“Being a Woman is Not a Tool to Punish or Humiliate Anyone”

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Dilar Dirik has written a wonderful piece, Kurdish Men for Gender Equality, about a story involving Iran that is worth knowing about. In April of this year, a local court in Iran started sentencing male convicts to being dressed as … Continue reading →

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A Poem for Leaving Patriarchal Male Heterosexuality Behind

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I’ve been reading and thoroughly enjoying a poet too few people read these days, J. V. Cunningham. One day, I will write about why I think he’s worth reading and learning from, even though the kind of poetry he wrote … Continue reading →

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Why, After Jerry Sandusky and the Boy Scouts, is No One Asking “Why Boys?”

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Author’s note: I have changed the title of the post so that the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is not included. Even though the majority of victims in that scandal were, as far as I know, boys, girls … Continue reading →

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I Objected To A Sexist Remark, And Contrary To My Paranoid Imagination, It Was Easy

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Ampersand

I kind of hesitate to post this story, because it might seem like I’m asking for a cookie, and that isn’t my goal here. At the local LA Fitness, I attend the “swim fit” classes fairly regularly, because it’s good … Continue reading →

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The Good Men Project: How Not to Have a Conversation about What It Means to Be a Good Man – Part 1

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

First, a full disclosure. The Good Men Project (TGMP) has published three pieces of my writing. I will be discussing that fact in more detail in the second part of this series, but for those who don’t know my work, … Continue reading →

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Trying to Write after the Newtown Massacre

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I have two pieces of writing to finish today, a chapbook manuscript that I want to submit to a contest and a blog post about Alyssa Royse’s in-so-many-ways-shameful “Nice Guys Commit Rape Too” essay on The Good Men Project that … Continue reading →

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Dad Wears a Skirt So His Son Will Feel Strong Enough To Do So As Well

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I saw this story by Piper Weiss on Yahoo and it is heartwarming and inspiring: [Nils] Pickert never minded that his son liked dressing in little girl’s clothes, but when his family moved from West Berlin to a small southern … Continue reading →

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Romanticizing the “Ramblin’ Man” in The “Time Traveler’s Wife”

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Last night, my wife and I finally watched The Time Traveler’s Wife. I remember that she wanted to see it when it was in the theaters, but I don’t remember why we never got around to it. It is not … Continue reading →

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Intervention

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

About a year and a half ago, as I walked home after work at about 11 PM, I passed a couple talking about thirty feet from the entrance to my building. The woman was leaning with her back against the … Continue reading →

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A Response to AMM’s Comment on My Publishing a Poem at The Good Men Project (Along with the Full Text of the Poem)

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

In a comment on my post announcing the publication of “For My Son, A Kind of Prayer” at The Good Men Project (TGMP), AMM wrote: I visited the place a year or two ago and read a number of the … Continue reading →

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