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“My goodness—you have a man’s hands.” “Cute dress. My sister has the same one.” “You blink a lot. Did anyone ever tell you that?” As pickup...
I know. I broke the “person-first” rule. I was supposed to say, “men who get rejected,” not “rejects”—a term that unfairly defines these men by how others treat them. Nor...
SPOILER ALERT: Read only if you’re okay knowing the entire plot. A guy’s got to man up—that’s all there is to it. But that proves...
On my way to work, I heard an old song playing on the radio. Dolly Parton is belting out her classic Nine to Five, which got...
“Fortunately.” That’s the word Donald Trump chose, under oath, when asked about the Access Hollywood tape — the one where he bragged that when you’re...
“You don’t eat soup in public. You don’t drink from a straw. You don’t cross your legs.” These are, per Fox host Jesse Watters, the...
It’s the night of my younger son’s wedding. Ceremony over, knot tied, glass stomped, hors d’oeuvres served. We are now in the reception hall, seated...
Let’s begin with an arguable premise: plenty of straight men wouldn’t be caught dead watching the Housewives go at it tooth and nail, or any...
In late May 2026, the New York Times ran an opinion piece titled “America Has a Masculinity Crisis”—a transcription of a three-way conversation about the...
The previous post focused on the controversy surrounding the terms masculine and masculinity—terms some claim refer to nothing set or specific, which leads them to propose they be wiped from our present-day vocabulary. There is simply no succinct way to define these...