The Wrong Way to Confront Rape Culture
Embed from Getty Images Rolling Stone’s now infamous article “A Rape on Campus” inspired a new program at the University of Virginia to help end campus rape. Unfortunately, it’s not likely to work. —...
View ArticleSelf-Taught Masculinity: 5 Incredible Ways to Change Your Life
Embed from Getty Images The most important thing you can do is act. Think, plan, and learn mean nothing if nothing is done with it. ___ Growing up in a society that embraced the masculine culture of...
View ArticleCan This Media Brand Become a Civics Superhero?
“Techies” debut new brand with goal of bolstering an informed electorate. — In a recent filming for a #PhillyChangers chat with digital-first, social good news organization, Generocity, I was asked...
View ArticleHow Do The Changing Roles Of Masculinity Affect Your Relationship?
Going back to the future? We keep searching for ways to define ourselves and our masculinity. Steven Lake examines how societal change and men’s view of themselves affect relationships. — Most of us...
View ArticleThe Perils of Praise
View image | gettyimages.com What happens when people who are used to getting praised stop getting it? Andrew Miller explains. ______ The Good Student was a teacher’s favourite in school, consistently...
View ArticleThe Fringe Benefits of Flunking Out of College
Failure taught me how to detach my ego from the success or failure of my various endeavors. ––– “Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me...
View ArticleIn Chicago, a Moment of Vulnerability and Healing Among Black Youth
400 Chicago high-schoolers, many of them struggling to see the value in their lives, are reminded by a millennial author that #BlackLivesMatter. — At the end of April this year, I gave the keynote...
View ArticleHow to Talk about Suicide if You Want to Save Lives
Break down the root cause of an individual’s depression, but avoid comparing generational struggles. — On Friday, for the first time ever, I listened to The Nick Taliaferro Show on 900amWURD.com,...
View ArticleHow My Daughter Makes Me a Better Man
Lance Burson saw he was the one learning when taking his daughter to college for her sophomore year Somewhere between checking the oil and gas in her car, and making sure her sorority house...
View ArticleOn Global Campuses, Academic Freedom has its Limits
View image | gettyimages.com On global campuses, academic freedom has its limits. — Last spring, a New York University professor was prevented from traveling to the United Arab Emirates to conduct...
View ArticleIn South Africa: Students Protest Tuition Hikes
View image | gettyimages.com Thousands of South African university students have taken to the streets in the biggest unified student protests since the first democratic elections in 1994. — The...
View ArticleLet’s Hear It For The (Frat) Boys!
Throw the stereotypes out the window. These fraternity brothers are compassionate, caring and community minded. — What comes to mind when you hear the word Fraternity? A group of partying, wild and...
View ArticleI Am Afraid No One Will Ever Love Me
Dr. Joe Kort answers painful questions from an 18-year-old man seeking the courage to come out and find love. — Dear Attitude Magazine, I am 18 and recently plucked up the courage to tell my best...
View ArticleEight Things to Nail at University
Embed from Getty Images Big mistakes, and how to avoid them. I’m a college drop-out. I didn’t mean to be. I was going to be a professional. I was going to help others, and get paid for it. I was going...
View ArticleCost of Higher Education Contradicts its Purpose
Embed from Getty Images College education has become a necessity in modern America as jobs offering high enough salaries to feasibly sustain a person in our culture become less in number and extremely...
View ArticleRacism is Real
Brave New Films put together this comparison of how blacks and whites are treated differently. What do you think? — Everyday activities are depicted from buying a house or a car, applying for a job...
View ArticleAfter Struggles With Coming Out and Drug Addiction, Gay Frat Brothers Fall In...
Troy Hallisey first met Henry in a college fraternity. It wasn’t until running into each other at a gay bar years later that they started dating. After the ultimate test of helping Henry overcome a...
View ArticleThe Future Is Coming and There Is No Going Back to the Past
The past is gone. It is only an illusion that we can get it back. Good men must make the future great instead. — Have you ever had one of those experiences with other people where the moment was...
View ArticleThe Wrong Way to Confront Rape Culture
Embed from Getty Images Rolling Stone’s now infamous article “A Rape on Campus” inspired a new program at the University of Virginia to help end campus rape. Unfortunately, it’s not likely to work. —...
View ArticleI Taught Myself About What It Means to Be a Man
Embed from Getty Images The most important thing you can do is take action. Thinking, planning, and learning mean nothing if nothing is done. ___ It’s difficult to ‘think’ about what it means to be a...
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