Cognitive Dissonance: Why Political Discussions Turn Nasty
If you’re like me, your social media has been populated lately with commentary using emotional appeals to get people to change their vote for President, with a ...
Category: Good Men Project
Dismantling the Manhood Myth: Why It’s Damaging to Define Men in Terms of Size
When Donald Trump responded to Marco Rubio’s comment about his small hands being no indication of a problem elsewhere on his body, he invoked one of the most vu...
The Privilege of Not Discussing Privilege: How the Hypersensitive Invoke an Oppressive Past to Justify Themselves
It’s a common experience: We try to talk about privilege or Black Lives Matter or institutional racism, and we find ourselves walking on eggshells, carefully ch...
Losing the Sense of Decency
George Santayana famously said, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” Recent political events have stirred up the most famous altercation fr...
Beyond ‘It Was Just a Joke’: Denial of the Obvious as a Distraction Technique
During the 2016 Republican National Convention, Scott Baio sat down with MSNBC’s Tamron Hall to discuss a tweet he’d made about Hillary Clinton. The tweet conta...
How Police can Regain the Trust of Their Communities
We can build relationships with people so they want to cooperate with us, or we can bully them into compliance. Broadly speaking, these are the two basic approa...