GUEST ARTICLE...
by Glenn J. Sacks
New Survey
Confirms Men Do Fair Share of Household Work
The
recently released study shows that women do an average of 27 hours of
housework a week, compared to 16 hours a week for men. Balanced
against this, however, is the study's less-publicized finding that the
average man spends 14 hours a week more on the job than the average
woman. Thus men's overall contribution to the household is actually
slightly higher than women's.
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GUEST ARTICLE...
by Laura Jones
The New Orleans Men’s Center: Modern Men Overcoming a “Detached”
History
The
New Orleans Men’s Center (NOMC) is a community of men who actively
choose to celebrate their manhood, free from the bindings of
“traditional” masculinity. The NOMC is truly a kinship of men, in that
members develop strong rapports, friendships, and even closer,
familial-like “clans.” The group, founded in 1990, is based on the
same principles of other, analogous men’s circles, which are
consequent of the late, twentieth century’s “men’s movement,”
according to on informant (interview, April 7, 2002). These groups
usually describe modern masculinity in similar terms as the
Male Manifesto,
which says, “Men are beautiful. Masculinity is life affirming and life
supporting. Male sexuality generates life. The male body needs and
deserves to be nurtured and protected.” This notion of manhood is a
bold movement beyond the conventional, “masculine mystique,” which
characterizes the “stronger sex” as “detached,” “competitive,”
“sadistic,” “self-interested,” and “aggressive,”
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COYOTE...
monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Forks On Roads
Jean has been a friend of mine since I was three. We
stayed connected for the first twenty or so years of our lives. She
was just a year younger than I and we were tight. We didn't attend the
same "grammar" or high schools, but we double dated a lot when we were
teens. She got into sex earlier than I did and paid the price for it
by getting pregnant at 16 or so. She dropped out of high school and
married the guy who just couldn't handle being a father. Nonetheless
they had two more kids in quick succession and his way of coping was
alcohol which led to his becoming more and more prone to violent
behavior.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly
column by Jeff Stimpson
Best Laid Plans
An English teacher first handed me Of
Mice and Men in ninth grade. First thing I noticed was the cover:
a watercolor of two men's faces, one sharp and sad; the other, wearing
a hat, happier under a broad-brimmed hat. I also noticed the book was
thin, which is the handiest kind of classic to a ninth grader. There
was also a lot of dialog, and the book ended with a gunshot. We all
loved it. We mimicked Lennie whenever circumstances called for us to
act stupid, which is also appealing to a ninth grader.
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THE NEW INTIMACY...
monthly column by
Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D.
Separation or Connection
Much of what has been written about
love has been based on an assumption that fundamental to our existence
we are beings who are inexorably separated from one another; that the
distance between two human beings is impossible to bridge. And,
furthermore, that one of our deepest, if not our very deepest desire,
also an inextricable part of the human condition, is to transcend that
fracture and connect with another person, with another soul.
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