No one is more masculine at work than Tristan Bridges. An assistant professor of sociology at SUNY Brockport, Bridges focuses on the ways men resist, reproduce and ignore changes in gender relations. Toward this end, he has studied male bodybuilders, men who are feminists, fathers’ rights activists...
In April, Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’s Chelsea Peretti and Key & Peele’s Jordan Peele did what many people in love have done before. They eloped. Thanks to the surprise and both of their celebrity, their elopement, something that is usually purposefully private, was rather public. Or maybe it...
In 2014, a New York Times Magazine cover story titled “Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?” sent the internet into a frenzy. Citing a study in The American Sociological Review suggesting that heterosexual couples who left the cooking and cleaning to the women had more...
Abraham Riesman didn’t realize he loved cats until his roommate’s feline Elvis almost burned down their Williamsburg apartment after tipping over a hot iron. “I couldn’t stay mad at him,” Riesman, now 30, remembers, 10 years later. “I was astounded to find that I only found love...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
Keith Lippa — bald, tan and a touch paunchy, shoulders slightly hunched underneath a red polo and pair of khakis — ambles into Hiro Sushi, a nondescript Japanese restaurant in Richmond, Virginia. He settles into one of the many empty black booths for what will be a welcome break from his...
Kenneth Tam is an artist who (among other things) makes videos of men — men that he finds on the internet and then pays to do awkward, intimate, absurd things on camera. These videos are amazing. For one of his most recent projects, Breakfast in Bed (which is currently...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
There has never been a time in my life when I wasn’t competing. I played T-ball, soccer and basketball as a little kid — eventually getting into tennis and even a little tackle football with friends. My family would play Trivial Pursuit, Connect Four, Sorry! and Life, and that’s...
The timing was almost unbelievable. About 18 months ago, I found out my dad had been cheating on my mom. About six months later, my husband found out that his mom had been cheating on his dad. How my husband and I each found out was indicative...
The only thing scarier than getting older yourself is realizing your parents are growing older still. While you may have many years to get things in order for retirement and even death, settling things for your parents has a speedier timeline. Getting on the same page with...
After Adam died, I started listening to dubstep. I think my grief registered in a way where the only viable option to make myself feel better was to slowly blow out my eardrums with Skrillex and Knife Party. His wasn’t the kind of stereotypical death you see...