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Friday, March 12, 2010 - 2:10pm By Suzanne ForbesThis week's column is an opinion piece. It's about Men in Skirts. My opinion is, men should wear skirts. Not just in the goth club, not just at Burning Man, not just kilts. Men should wear skirts lots more than they do. Why? ...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 4:27pm By Sinclair Sexsmith“Have you seen the Dockers ads?” someone asked me recently at a conference, after I told them I write about masculinity. "A friend told me he liked those ads, because he is so unsure of what it means to 'be a man' right now. Everything has changed...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 5:19pm By EditrixAbbyThe transgendered have made it into the presidential cabinet but it looks like they won't be competing in the Olympics any time soon. The International Olympic Committee recently decided to treat the “ambiguous sex” of athletes—meaning gender...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 1:36pm By Sinclair SexsmithAt a bar last week, catching up with some feminist queer old friends, I began discussing my ideas around Radical Masculinity and the theories I am putting forward about the ways masculinity needs work. I drunkenly argued that women have surpassed...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 1:20pm By Morgan WeinertThe glamorous lives of the filthy rich hold an overwhelming appeal. Teenagers, especially, are drawn to the bright light of high-fame. Teens are old enough to know the true appeal of money, material goods and lots of sex, but too young to understand...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009 - 8:36am By Jessica O'ReillyA study published in the Journal of Vision reveals that women with angry facial expressions are more likely to be perceived as male. "Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" asks author Lynn Hecht Schafran...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 3:07pm By Sinclair SexsmithMy dad's best friend died last week. Heart attack. He was 60, barely older than my dad, not old enough for his heart to give way. They've been friends for 35 years, longer than I've been alive. I got a heartbreaking email from my father about how...
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Friday, November 6, 2009 - 12:25pm By Delilah Night“You're going to have to beat boys off with a stick when she's older." The speaker, an older woman, smiled affectionately at my daughter and brushed a hand over her dark wispy hair. I smile outwardly and cringe inwardly. How do you know...
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Friday, October 16, 2009 - 10:50am By Tim McElreavyIt is something of a cliché that everything comes full circle, and sometimes that circle can be rather vicious in its orbital return to the starting point. Take, for example, affirmative action, the principle/policy through which institutions...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 10:57am By Liz FarsaciA 25-year-old Polish man named Ryszard Giersz recently won a landmark court case in which his neighbour, Anna S., was fined after she repeatedly harassed him verbally. Among her taunts was the term "faggot"—and the court, located in...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 4:32pm By Liz FarsaciSome of you may have read my article on nude modeling, and how it has affected the way I view myself, sexuality, art and society. However, being naked is a very different experience for individual men, and our culture looks much more favorably upon...
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Monday, August 10, 2009 - 3:07pm By Perv PanelI’m a 26-year-old straight man, and after a long and sometimes difficult period of reflection as well as a lot of counseling, I’ve decided to begin transitioning to become a woman. This is absolutely the right thing for me. I am sure of this. Even...
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Monday, August 3, 2009 - 1:54pm By Chris HallFor 20 years, Rob Newbiggin has fought as a professional boxer. Nothing that he's done in the ring, though, has ever caused as much excitement among the public as his recent announcement that he's going to undergo sex reassignment surgery and...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 3:58pm By Tim McElreavyThree fervent Catholics were arrested early Sunday morning for defacing works of art displayed on the Cathedral of Montauban in southwestern France. Footage from surveillance cameras shows a man and two women armed with a brush, glue, and newspaper...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 2:32pm By Lauren WissotNew York magazine recently ran an article by Mark Harris called "The Gay Generation Gap," in which he describes that chasm perhaps best summarized as the binary thinking of the old versus the non-thinking of the new. As Harris rightly...
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