She has reserved the lane he is in for the lesson she will teach, the schedule posted on the door to the entry to the pool. There is an accountability that comes with white adult masculinity, and if you’ve spent your life minimizing your contact with it and its power over you, suddenly being confronted by a white man in a marriage or friendship can be an unforgivable transgression.

He pokes, pushes, sometimes verbally slaps men into being God's men, all with an obvious love for them and faith in their ability to persevere to heaven. Robert’s empowering view of men — gay and straight — as strong, empathic, sensual, vulnerable, emotionally aware, spiritually awake, and deeply engaged is not a dream; it’s a reality that can be achieved.In this book they answer questions many men are just too embarrassed to ask, How do you swallow a sword? Think of what pride boys may feel when they’re successful at this, especially when they’re “strong” enough to not cry or show any signs of vulnerability. Be a Man: The Ultimate Guide lets men of the world (and the women that might live with them) know that they are not alone. Many of the pieces, for example, barrel far beyond where we expect them to end — past any kind of resolution and into frightening and surprising territory.

Mary-Claire Mason wrote the ground-breaking book ‘ Male infertility – men talking,’ London, Routledge. I knew I had to check the F box on my passport application to go to college in London, but when I saw the photos of me standing next to Windsor Castle, I didn’t recognize her and turned away. Do not, for example, put a dead name in an obituary, or refer to the time when she was her if he is now him. Robert Augustus Masters’ often astonishing psychological insights populate every page of this compelling book, and offer new and creative ways of thinking about many of our era’s most complex and controversial gender-related issues, among them: pornography, sexual violence, militarism and war, the effects of trauma on men’s psyches and identities, and much more.

I am like a newborn who is expected to drive sixty-five miles per hour down the highway, but I can’t see above the steering wheel. The last lines of my wedding vows to Lynette from 2012 were, “And I own these words now and say them with all the conviction a boy can muster: I love you, Mary Lynette D’Amico, and vow to do so forever and always.

The world has rarely seen a man who has worked his own process as Masters has, producing a brilliant, compassionate, paradigm-exploding instruction manual for any man — or woman — on the planet. A construct is something we make; it is a materiality that is drawn from the offerings of culture and reinscribed so seamlessly that it feels natural. I feel so much joy living in a man’s body, my natural physicality, and I am trying to find a path toward becoming a good man.

Most of the stories in the book feature unnamed narrators, and overlaps between characters in different stories are occasionally hinted at but not overt. The next time he pops his head out of the water I shout at him, “Move the fuck over, buddy,” and he does. I recommend reading this book if you need a reason to be thankful for your own husband or boyfriend.