According to a new poll from Pew, 56 percent of men think sexism is a thing of the past. “Finally,” the women of America told Jezebel during a conference call I made up. “We’re so grateful,” they added, “sexism was such a bummer.” The women were clearly overcome with such relief that they were unable to continue…
New research published in the Journal of Hand Therapy (your favorite monthly read) reveals that, according to a small sample, men today have weaker hands than their fathers did 30 years ago.
I realized being a man at Jezebel, a feminist blog, would be tough on my first day. After arriving to work in a new outfit, holding a latte from the coffee shop where I looked forward to becoming a regular, the site’s editor-in-chief, Emma Carmichael, led me past the red-stained floor of Jezebel’s pod inside Gawker…
In the middle of a hot Tennessee summer, young Harry T. Burn was mulling the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Congress had proposed the amendment a year prior and it looked like it might die since only 35 states saw fit to ratify and others refused to hold special sessions in order to vote on the Amendment.…
On Monday, cargo shorts became the unfashionable subject of vitriol when the Wall Street Journal’s Nicole Hong published a disapproving story about the many-pocketed style. Today, men at the storied paper are wearing cargo shorts to work in protest and solidarity with their questionable taste.
Last week, a federal appeals court resuscitated a lawsuit accusing Columbia University of gender discrimination against men, specifically in the university’s handling and application Title IX investigations. John Doe’s lawsuit, which was previously dismissed by a lower court, was filed under Title IX, and claims that…
Within a month of revealing his relationship with Taylor Swift, a well-sculpted bore from the United Kingdom posed in his underwear in a high-profile photo shoot. I’m talking about Tom Hiddleston, yes, but he’s not the only one.
Another day, another troll: today a boring man was allowed to publish a think piece about not-boring musician Sky Ferreira that began by discussing her “killer tits,” as seen on her last album cover, and comparing her cup size to Madonna’s (in a deeply uninspired collation he carried out ‘til the very end).
For your consideration, from the last week: the Washington Post’s “A shocking number of college men surveyed admit coercing a partner into sex,” and the Wall Street Journal’s “Women are more interested in sex than you think, studies show.” Why were these headlines—and the articles that followed—addressed to men?
Today, an ad started widely circulating on Twitter, purportedly from the Clinton campaign, featuring a tatted up, gelled, almost harassingly bearded man. “I’m man enough to vote for a woman...” it reads. “Are you?” The Clinton campaign confirms to Jezebel that this is not a real ad. Come on, guys.
I wasn’t planning to poke his boner. But as I sat beside my boyfriend, watching Blood Simple, I could feel what was coming. Frances McDormand was on screen, scantily clad. I was twenty-something, and for the first time having that uncomfortable moment when you watch your boyfriend watch a sexy lady and need to know…
On Sunday night, a Memphis man opened fire on a woman and her three year-old daughter after she refused his advances. The girl was hit multiple times, and is now in the hospital in “extremely critical condition.”
A few weeks ago Matt McGorry, actor and male feminist du jour, shared a photo of himself crying. “Who needs bravado when you’ve got vulnerability? Being a ‘real man’ is being true to yourself,” McGorry wrote in the accompanying tweet. Hashtagged #FindYourMagic, McGorry’s tears were manufactured for a new Axe campaign.
In what feels like a beautiful metaphor for masculinity, “aspiring bubble runner” Reza Baluchi has been dragged back to land by the Coast Guard for the second time after attempting to do something stupid and impossible that placed an undue burden on others.
Alexander Skarsård, a man, is starring in the title role of a new Tarzan remake coming this summer. To prepare, he beat his abs in a bowl of hot water with yeast, four eggs, sugar, and salt, then added flour, then kneaded, then mixed ‘em up with a dough hook, then put that on a floured surface and kneaded more, then…
A California man with a beautiful heart and so-so climbing skills needed to be rescued off a ledge Thursday morning after his idea for a creative proposal hit a few unexpected snags, and I suddenly understand straight people less than I did before.
Today, men’s favorite ages on OkCupid are 20, 21, 22, and 23, but ever since fire was invented to see each other with, stunningly average men have believed they deserve that perfect 10. Case in point? The vintage Strictly Personals section of New York Magazine, which The Cut perused for some beautiful standouts.
Last Saturday, Gay Talese was speaking at a conference at Boston University. When the octogenarian nonfiction legend was asked about women writers who had inspired him, he replied, “I didn’t know any women writers that I loved.”
The signifiers of upper middle class, white male midlife crisis have shifted across the past few generations with a lava-slow determination, time and culture churning on itself and ossifying into a whole new level of hell. Boomers who bought fast cars and unexpectedly took up squash or long-distance running evolved…
Tina Fey is weary of folks acting like she should be grateful for the small strides comedy has made towards gender equity, and we all continue to be weary of people requesting cookies for doing what they’re supposed to do.
