Dear World, Do me a favor, will you? Don’t sell my sons short. Let me ‘splain. No, no time to ‘splain, let me sum up…. You, world, you sell them short each time you assume they’re going to act like Neanderthals simply because they are in possession of testicles and a willy. You do it…
Tag: Men
Dancing With My Angry Self
I’ve been dancing with anger for some time now. Perhaps it’s been on simmer for years, finally coming to a boil after a contentious election cycle. Maybe my hormones are shifting. Perhaps it’s an awakening. The why isn’t important. Whatever the reason, my anger and I have gotten to know each other very well over the past…
The Good, The Bad and The Equal
Feminism used to be much simpler. I’m not talking about the suffragette struggle or Roe v. Wade or the ERA. Those battles were hard-fought. They paved the way for the more nuanced battles taking place now in government, in media, in the courts. What I mean by simple is this: at the time I was…
The Dog Ate My Libido
It is quality rather than quantity that matters. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca Except when it come to sex. —Husbands everywhere If you believe what you see and hear, marriage isn’t sexy. Somewhere between going to the chapel and the exchange of gold bands, life stops being a sensual affair and becomes a matronly one. It is as…