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• Postures of Support: finding a community of men through yoga

  Created: Sunday, 29 November 2009 16:18 Author: Michael McCarthy

  3 out of 36. That’s how many men were in the 2007 Yoga Development Course. I was one of them. We were told that this was a fairly normal ratio. The Yoga development Course (YDC) involves a lot of stretching, writing about our life experiences and beli...

• Boy-School Coming to Town: Why Not?

  Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00 Author: Tuval Dinner

  As Paul wrote in his piece, it seems likely that a new, publicly funded boy's school will be opening in Toronto in the next few years. This is being pitched as a way to stem the tide of lower literacy rates, higher drop-out rates and greater disciplinary ...

• Boy-School coming to town: WHY?

  Created: Sunday, 15 November 2009 00:00 Author: Paul Baines

  The TDSB (Toronto District School Board) recently gave the green light to a proposed ‘boy-focused’ kindergarten to grade 3 school that would grow up with the boys.Initiated by TDSB Director of Education Chris Spence, the plan would open a new school...

• Mental Health and Men

  Created: Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:00 Author: Robert Bickford

  There's been some talk on masc about why young men don't go to the doctor for medical help and advice.  This speaks to masculinity's encouragement of 'toughing it out.'  Seeking help from a doctor or a mental health professional requires the ste...

• Musings on Male Feminism

  Created: Thursday, 08 October 2009 11:55 Author: Shaun Johnson

  In a recent column for this site, Tuval Dinner asked men to discuss what feminism has done for us.  A few things came to mind when I read his piece and thought about his call.  First, during an acceptance speech for an International Freedom Award by t...

• Wired for Sex? teen docs on the CBC

  Created: Sunday, 04 October 2009 20:48 Author: Paul Baines

  {youtube}xMTWAZByqw8{/youtube} The CBC's Passionate Eye is premiering a new documentary on Monday night (October 5) called It's a Teen World: wired for sex, lies, and power trips. For podcast and radio listeners, there's 3 hours of recording on CBC's Ide...

• The F-word

  Created: Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:35 Author: Tuval Dinner

  Last week I was hanging out downtown with my baby when a group of young women approached me and asked if they could interview me for a class assignment. First they asked me what my definition of feminism* is and then they followed up with a whole series...

• On Campus with Carlos

  Created: Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:00 Author: Paul Baines

  {youtube}7C21FC2g2Ws{/youtube} I was present for an electric event last night as the Ryerson community hosted spoken-word artist Carlos Andrés Gómez.Here’s part of their promo:An intimate evening with spoken word artist Carlos Andrés Gómez as he co...

• masc in the media

  Created: Tuesday, 22 September 2009 07:41 Author: Tuval Dinner

  In the past few weeks we have been mentioned in two print media sources. Firstly, one of our writers, DJ Danforth, has written a piece about how young men can help end violence against women. It is being published in the latest Battered Women's Support Se...

• True Bromance

  Created: Sunday, 30 August 2009 00:00 Author: Dan Levy

  All right, Paul. I’ll bite. I saw I Love You, Man on an airplane recently and thought it was OK. More of a smiler than a laugher, but who wants to burst out laughing in a cabin full of strangers, anyway. Paul Rudd is characteristically adorable as sen...