May 7, 2016 | History, mic, Satirical Essays
Published: The Good Men Project (May 7, 2016) Did you know that America was almost called Vespucia? I'm not referring to the United States, by the way. More than five hundred years, the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci determined that the continent "discovered" by Christopher Columbus in 1492 was not, in fact, Asia. This simple realization was apparently enough to warrant naming two continents...
Feb 23, 2016 | Satirical Essays
Published: The Good Men Project (February 23, 2016) My friend George recently told me that his friend's mother, who watches the BBC on a regular basis, uses the word "raper" instead of "rapist." At first I scoffed at this revelation, but upon further reflection I started to wonder: Why do we say "rapist" instead of "raper?" Do we say "murderist" instead of "murderer" or "killist" instead of...
Jan 2, 2016 | Internet Culture, mic, Race and Racism, Satirical Essays
Published: The Good Men Project (January 2, 2016) It's one thing to explain why modern white supremacists are funny (something I've already done several times), but it's quite another to actually illustrate how this can be the case. Fortunately, a good friend of mine recently received an anonymous message from an Internet stalker which allows me to do precisely that. This troll, you see, was...
Dec 24, 2015 | Holiday Season, Jewish Experiences, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues, Satirical Essays
Published: The Good Men Project (December 24, 2015) Much to my horror, I discovered earlier today that my favorite local Chinese restaurant isn't open on Christmas Eve. This may not seem like a big deal - heck, you could even say that I'm a bit of a scrooge for faulting the establishment - but it's important to remember that, as an American Jew, being denied Chinese food on this holiday is a bit...
Aug 20, 2015 | General Advice, Love and Dating, Satirical Essays
Published: The Good Men Project (August 20, 2015) Let’s talk about crushes. I recently noticed that when adults discuss their romantic feelings, the term “crush” is almost never used. When it does appear, there is almost always an apologetic undertone to it – people will qualify their crushes with adjectives like “schoolboy” or “schoolgirl” (as in, “I have a bit of a schoolboy crush on you”), or...
Aug 13, 2015 | General Advice, Satirical Essays
Published: The Good Men Project (August 13, 2015) If you’re reading this article and consider yourself to be lazy, ask yourself one question: Why would someone choose to be lazy? There is a considerable stigma attached to the lifestyle associated with laziness: Out-of-shape both physically and mentally, someone who doesn’t contribute to society, mooches off others instead of supporting...
Aug 6, 2015 | General Advice, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Satirical Essays
Jul 2, 2015 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, mic, Political Ideologies, Satirical Essays
Published: Good Men Project (July 2, 2015) Matthew Rozsa loves quotes. And he disagrees with economic conservatives. Here’s where he’s going with that. — “I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own.” – John Bartlett, publisher and editor of “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” Some men collect baseball cards. Others collect comic books. I...
May 9, 2015 | Autobiographical, Internet Culture, mic, Satirical Essays
Published: Good Men Project (May 9, 2015) Matthew Rozsa offers a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the wonders of having a beard. — Bearded men of the world, rejoice: Our name has been cleared! Many of us were understandably concerned earlier this week when a nasty little hoax made its rounds online impugning our good name. “Some beards are so full of poo they are as dirty as toilets” the...
Apr 14, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Gender and Sexism, Satirical Essays
Published: Good Men Project (April 14, 2015) Are you tired of the English language only containing masculine and feminine pronouns? Well, some people are… and Matthew Rozsa is one of them. This is an article about pronouns. Don’t worry, I won’t write one about amateur nouns. Now that the groan-inducing pun is out of the way (this is an article about language, so you should have seen it coming),...