In the film Fight Club Tyler Durden poses the question, “How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?” By that measure I knew very little about myself. I knew nothing of what it actually meant to have someone ‘front me up’ or ‘give me some verbals’. Yet these experiences… Read More How Much Can You Know About Yourself If You’ve Never Been In A Fight?
Conversations with my sister are usually very funny. I suppose it’s the shared life, shared blood, and shared parents. People say we don’t look the same, but we sound the same. (She would say that I speak in a really posh-grammar-school way. She seems more sarf-London). We cover many topics: from race, to politics, through… Read More Men’s Flirting Styles: Conversations With My Sister Are Usually Very Funny
This is Part Two of James’ story. It originally appeared on the website for the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) – a charity that exists to prevent male suicide in the UK. Launching on 9th Jan, Let It All Hang Out is an initiative that aims to break the silence surrounding male fertility. It’s also the… Read More The Silence and Stigma of Men’s Fertility – Part Deux
This is Part One of James’ story. It originally appeared on the website for the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) – a charity that exists to prevent male suicide in the UK. Launching on 9th Jan, Let It All Hang Out is an initiative that aims to break the silence surrounding male fertility. It’s also the… Read More The Silence and Stigma of Men’s Fertility
This is the whole-school assembly I delivered during Movember. I considered it to be part of a well-executed school awareness campaign. The ‘news-cycle’ in our school (and others?) is pretty short. Especially in a recently-gone-co-educational school where the majority of pupils are boys. Boys have short memories and the routines and rhythms of schools are… Read More What It Means To Be A Man: A Whole-School Marketing Strategy
Being a man means different things for different men. Except some stereotypes persist. Steve Biddulph’s book ‘Manhood’ takes this apart and invites men to step up. He actually calls it “men’s liberation”. Until recently, I felt separate from my fellow man. My sister (with whom I have a great relationship) referred to me as “an… Read More Manhood by Steve Biddulph – A Review
There is no simple way of saying this – other than saying it. When you’re a teenage boy, you’re going to be mostly terrible at relating to teenage girls. Women, ladies and girls are not there for your gratification, objectification or vilification. They don’t exist as a measure of your masculinity, virility or technical ability.… Read More Getting Off The Mark
Manoscopy 