In her article ‘Understanding Patriarchy,’ Bell Hooks observes that ‘men do not use the word ‘patriarchy’ in everyday life. Most men never even think about patriarchy – what it means, how it is created or what sustains it. And that’s a big problem. It’s a bit like having a Ferrari and […]
School’s out for summer, School’s out forever.
School’s been blown to piece, Alice Cooper / Michel Bruce.
Alice Cooper’s memorable song was surely one of the youth anthems of year twelve students in the late eighties. In those days schoolies was relatively young. It started in Queensland in the later part of the seventies and […]
As another young person takes their life in what has become a steady stream of deaths in Australia one major question persist: What can be done to address this?
Why?!? In a previous blog I outlined that there are many reasons why someone young or old thinks about taking their life or does it. It […]
Trapped in a relentless flow of social and technological change, society is rapidly losing sight of what makes us human. Although most technological changes are heralded as tremendous advancements, much of it fails to live up to the marketing hype. Point in case is the ‘Digital Revolution’. Many so-called ‘advances’ have negative consequences, such […]
I remember my shock at the news of Anthony Bourdain having been found dead in a hotel room in France. It flicked up on my iPhone; an impersonal notification that could have been about the change in the weather. It was the second suicide of a celebrity in the last week. The other was […]
Trapped in a relentless flow of social and technological change, society is rapidly losing sight of what makes us human. Although most technological changes are heralded as tremendous advancements, much of it fails to live up to the marketing hype. Point in case is the ‘Digital Revolution’. Many so-called ‘advances’ have negative consequences. These […]
This is one of the defining questions of our time. The very reason we need to find a different way of being men is that we are not doing very well at all!
What’s on our minds?
When I work with boys and men, there are six key areas that I regularly deal with: […]
The time has come for men to go beyond simply surviving. The time has come to go beyond simply being good. I know lots of good men; men who want to do the best they can for themselves and their families; men who want to do good things in their professions. The problem is […]
As someone who has an agenda about gender, I closely follow the news with respect to anything about the issues faced by men and and women. Needless to say that the last few years has had an absolute tidal wave of material to get immersed in. My project of Making Good Men […]
“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ
Unfortunately, unlike the Las Vegas massacre, the truth appears to have become sparse ammunition. How else can men like Harvey Weinstein have gotten away with their behaviour?
In working with Making Good Men Great, I am constantly […]
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