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Video: The Gen Z Gender Divide

Mar 1, 2024 Young men are more likely than women to drop out of college, commit suicide, and support far-right parties. But while misogynistic influencers like Andrew Tate are correctly … Continue reading

March 15, 2024 · Leave a comment

Tony Gloeggler: Knowledge

He’s unaware he’s built
like a bowling pin,
that his shaved head shines
like Mr. Clean and everybody
stares when he waddles

January 17, 2024 · 13 Comments

Barbara Hamby: St. Clare’s Underwear

there’s your average man, hirsute and raging with testosterone,
Godzilla incarnato, King Kong with big feet, Frankenstein
hovering over some delectable damsel with skin like fresh pastry

January 15, 2024 · 13 Comments

Meg Pokrass: Like she is

he doesn’t like
this Earth so much that he might live
here and be ruined like she is he
says

December 2, 2023 · Leave a comment

Baron Wormser: Five Easy Pieces

Bobby has the dis-ease that is bred in the easy-going yet overbearing ways of his nation.

October 29, 2023 · 8 Comments

Emmelie Prophète: Pipo

Pipo often talked about fallen friends, their final, frozen, empty vision, almost as if he were feeling his own demise. He was close to and a cousin of Fanfan the Savage, but he was not an active gang member, and should never have died.

February 24, 2023 · 2 Comments

Sandy Solomon: My Friend Seems Near Tears

Look at her, so tall and beautiful
when she forgets herself, her whole body
lit with a sloppy, ungovernable brightness

February 15, 2023 · 7 Comments

David Hassler: Spaghetti Dinners

I pour Lynn a glass of wine and make a toast: “To our future life together.” We stare into each other’s eyes and smile. Unable to wait any longer, I ask Lynn if she will marry me. She says yes, and I begin to cry. I am here, in this place, with a beautiful woman who loves me.

February 13, 2023 · 10 Comments

Robert Lipsyte: Where Are the Men?

I realized then that I was watching a raid. I felt ice water in my veins as I hurried to a telephone booth from which I could observe the cops closing in on the doctor’s office. What should I do? Warn the doctor? Less than an hour had passed since Maria had gone inside. If they aborted the abortion now, would that spare them criminal charges?

May 25, 2022 · Leave a comment

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