We apologize for dropping the ball on the Next Gen Men blog for the past year—though it’s no excuse, over the past year we have been really busy doing the work that we love!
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One of my favourite stories is the response of British Writer G.K. Chesterton’s to an invitation to write an essay on: “What’s wrong with the world?”
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Often we hear that people need to be ‘called out’ for their shitty behaviour, but to what end? So they can be shamed? So that you can feel righteous? Indignant?
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Women are often not allowed to donate due to depleted hemoglobin/iron levels or low blood pressure, as well as subject to an 84 day waiting period between whole blood donations compared to 56 days for males.
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…is a myth. I believe it’s something that we should strive for and work towards, but we need to stop kidding ourselves that it exists.
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When was the last time you went to the doctor? I’ve been dealing with some discomfort/annoyance/irritation with my digestion for a while now. My gut reaction (pun intended) was to tough it out, focus on my diet, drink less, and hope it passes. Likely it’s stress related, but who knows.
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The person who has invested 100 hours into books, YouTube, and articles from one “thought leader”. Or the person who has invested 20 hours into books, TED talks, and journals from five “thought leaders”?
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It wasn’t until dropping off the final students from our last field trip of the year that it hit me, my time developing and delivering programs at NGM was over.
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We are extremely concerned by Ontario’s decision to revert back to the Health and Physical Education curriculum, last updated in 1998. Ontario’s sex ed curriculum was updated in 2015 in consultation with roughly 4,000 parents, and was designed and written by experts in child development, internet safety, police, and social workers.
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The Male Operating System (mOS) is what our hardware (brain and body) is programmed with over the course of our lives. Version 3.0 can include ‘boys don’t cry,’ at about 16.0 we might be told that relentless persistence is key in securing our romantic interests, and by version 22.0 we’d better be ready to crunch some Excel and make some bank.
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I don’t think we’ll ever be in a post-gender world, nor do I necessarily think that we would be best served by one. Kind of like when someone says ‘I don’t see race’—this could lead to denying someone’s lived experience of their identity.
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…cuts both ways! As much as we need more women in leadership roles and STEM education/fields, we need more men in caregiving roles such as early childhood education and nursing.
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