May 19, 2015 | Asperger's Syndrome, General Advice, Health & Wellness (Physical)
Published: Good Men Project (May 19, 2015) Why are we so sensitive about telling people when they’ve gained weight? ___ Between last October and this May, I put on almost forty pounds. And I wish someone had told me that I was gaining weight. Don’t get me wrong, I take full responsibility for my current dilemma. It was my decision to eat poorly, settle into a sedentary lifestyle, and ignore...
May 16, 2015 | General Advice, Health & Wellness (Physical), Liskula Cohen
Published: Good Men Project (May 16, 2015) co-author: Liskula Cohen Liskula Cohen discusses the dietary changes she’s had to make as a result of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. On April 10th of this year, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. This may seem like an unorthodox subject for a men’s website – after all, MS impacts two to three times more women than men. That said, there...
May 7, 2015 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Health & Wellness (Physical), Marijuana Legalization and the War on Drugs, Mental Illness, mic
Published: Daily Dot (May 7, 2015) At a time when Americans are justifiably shown real stories of police violence and racial profiling, it’s important to give credit to the law enforcement officials working to change our current system of brutality. That’s why we should all be praising the Gloucester Police Department in Massachusetts for its bold new anti-drug program: Instead of hauling drug...
Apr 16, 2015 | Autobiographical, Health & Wellness (Physical), mic
Published: Good Men Project (April 16, 2015) Matthew Rozsa shares his experiences as someone who can’t drive. ___ I’m not sure if being unable to drive is a net positive or negative, but I do know that it’s worth writing about. To clarify: When I say “unable to drive” I don’t mean that I have temporarily lost my license or had it suspended. I’ve always had lousy eye-hand coordination, and a...
Mar 24, 2015 | Autobiographical, General Advice, Health & Wellness (Physical)
Published: Good Men Project (March 24, 2015) A man who very rarely takes sick days—or weeks—discusses how he recently collapsed from exhaustion. ___ The movie poster is probably fake, a cheap knock-off sold by an unscrupulous Amazon vendor, but that doesn’t bother me. I’m transfixed by the image of a single quarter, either carefully placed or carelessly tossed onto droplets of blood, which is...
Feb 18, 2015 | Asperger's Syndrome, Conspiracy Theories, Health & Wellness (Physical), mic, Science and Technology
Published: Quartz (February 18, 2015) I still remember the first article I ever wrote about growing up with Asperger’s Syndrome. It was compelled (I’m reluctant to say inspired) by some of the controversial reports that circulated after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting claiming gunman Adam Lanza had an autism spectrum disorder. Two years later, confusion and misinformation about autism...
Feb 5, 2015 | Asperger's Syndrome, Conspiracy Theories, Health & Wellness (Physical), mic, President Obama, Science and Technology
Published: Daily Dot (February 5, 2015) “The science is, you know, pretty indisputable.” Those were President Obama’s words in an interview with NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie earlier this week during which he urged parents to get their children vaccinated. While it’s tempting to praise the president for standing on the side of science, he has been inexcusably reluctant to fulfill his constitutional...
Jan 3, 2015 | Health & Wellness (Physical), Internet Culture, mic, Science and Technology
Published: Daily Dot (January 3, 2015) I don’t need to remind you about the so-called “epidemic” that reached America’s doorstep in 2014. From a ‘90s thriller to a Jesse Pinkman monologue, everyone knew about the dreaded Ebola virus before it reached our shores, but it wasn’t until last year that we became existentially afraid of it. The disease we should be actually scared of is the one that...
Nov 4, 2014 | Health & Wellness (Physical), History, Mental Illness, Original Source Salon.com, Other Media, Science and Technology
Oct 16, 2014 | Arts and Entertainment, Health & Wellness (Physical), Internet Culture, mic, President Obama
Published: Daily Dot (October 16, 2014) Unlikely though it might seem, First Lady Michelle Obama’s new viral video “Turnip for What” is more than just a silly video that parodies a hip-hop hit to teach Americans about the joys of eating the titular vegetable. Indeed, even as pundits continue to debate Paul Krugman’s controversial Rolling Stone article detailing Barack Obama’s policy successes...