In 2022, Fraternity and Sorority Life at Northwestern quietly eliminated its mandatory requirement for consent and sexual assault prevention trainings for NU fraternities. This decision, which was ...

Men have long felt compelled to publicly perform masculinity, and when they don’t conform, they pay the price, whether through bullying, self-induced shame, or social isolation. In short, the pressure ...

There’s no one way to become a man. If anything, the so-called online “manosphere” and current political culture of toxic masculinity have left many men and boys feeling angry, unfulfilled, and ...

There seem to be as many interpretations of what “toxic masculinity” means as there are uses of the term. Some believe it’s a way to criticize what they see as specific negative behavior and attitudes ...

The concept of toxic masculinity has received considerable attention in the past few years following the #Me-Too movement and various exposés of bro cultures, notably in the tech industry. But what ...

When it comes to defining what masculinity really means, and teaching boys how to be men — the subject of SheKnows’ recent “Be a Man” series — much of our current narrative needs to be flipped on its ...