In the coming months, MASC magazine is going on-line with a host of educational resources that take-on and do a double-take on masculinity.

For the past 12 months we've been building a library of 66 posts on masculinity from different writers on a wide range of issues and experiences. Check out the archive, Keyword tags, or just search the site for your interests. For examample, we've got 26 posts mentioning education. Our CLICK IT blogroll is always being updated and also has links to related projects.

While all of our posts can be used as educational resources for the classroom, the community centre, or even the lunchroom, we want to direct some energies toward key educational strategies and sources.

The Miss G. Project has been a campion for getting a gender studies course approved for Ontario Grade 11 students and it will be up to all of us to make sure it goes from being available to being unavoidable. Sadly, The Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario thinks this course is at odds with some Catholic teachings, but let's do what we can from where we're at now.

On that note, send us your suggestions for the best educational resources on masculinity and gender that you know about or have used. You can also send us your questions and interests and we'll either connect you with a resource or start the process of seeking one out. Deal?

To start things off, did anyone see the new Dove Men Care commerical during the Superbowl? This example could be made into a rich resouce on masculinity with teaching strategies on the following questions:

• what parts of this commercial seem more true or more false?
• what are the highs and lows of manhood?
• what are men doing or likely feeling during this commercial?
• how are manhood and masculinity different or the same?
• how is masculinity being packaged by commercial culture in general and by Dove in particular?
• should masculinity be more simplified or complicated?
• how could portrayals of masculinity be more complicated?
• what else does this commercial make you think about or want to do in terms of gender, sexuality, and media?

More to come on all of this and please jump in where you can.