What’s a gender expert doing writing a book of short stories?! It’s a reasonable question, since people often think of nonfiction and fiction as separate endeavors. And they are. But if you’re curious to read one answer and one blending of two genres, The Blind Woman and Other Stories will, I hope, touch your heart. I initially wrote these stories between 1987 and 2000; I’ve revised them on airplanes and …
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September 10, 2018
“Our genomes are 99.9% identical from one person to the next as long as the two individuals being compared are two men or two women. But if we compare a woman and a man, the genetic differences are 15 times greater than the genetic differences for two males or two females.” –David C. Page, M.D., Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Everywhere we look, the two sexes …
August 27, 2018
Just last week, someone posted on Twitter the illusion that female and male brains are the same. Why talk about girls and boys, these folks ask, their brains are the same anyway. Nothing could be farther from the truth. While there is huge overlap between female and male brains, and while there are more than 3.5 billion + ways to be “girl/female” and 3.5 billion + ways to be “boy/male” …
August 20, 2018
As the new school year is set to begin, we at GI hope you will look at utilizing brain-based training during the school year. We live in a time of cultural upheaval in which superficial answers to profound questions often abound. Three sex- and gender-specific myths have emerged in the last few years in ways that are harmful to educator success and student growth. Myth 1: Male/female brain difference …
July 26, 2018
Thank you all so much for your warm reception to Saving Our Sons over the last year. We are working together to create a social revolution on behalf of boys; all the while, we are each gaining strength, courage, and practical strategies to raise and educate boys close by, in our homes, schools, and neighborhoods. Our revolution is a revolution from the ground up. In thirty years of working with …
July 16, 2018
Gail and I have two daughters, Gabrielle and Davita. They are 28 and 25 now, but when we were raising them, few things worried us more than their digital health. The digital world they—and we—lived in was a barrage, overwhelming—before we knew it, our children were spending many hours a day staring into screens. As we worked to help our daughters take control of their digital health, they would …
July 9, 2018
From the opening reception to the final session, the Gurian Summer Training Institute soared. We thank you all, whether you attended this year or not, and special thanks to those who came, participated, debated, learned, grew, and took the work home with them to empower and grow their communities. To all our speakers—Keynote, Troy Kemp; Featured Speaker, Susan Jentzsch; Strategies Trainer, Katey McPherson; Dr. Glynetta Deshon Fletcher, Dr. Lisa …
June 26, 2018
Pornography is a natural attractant to most pubescent and adolescent boys. By early adolescence, most boys have begun to masturbate. Because male sexual function is often directly linked, in the brain, to visual stimulation, the male brain creates visual loops between the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis (the hormonal and reproductive structure of male development) and the visual cortex—the gray matter areas of the male brain that look at not only attractive potential …
August 5, 2018
Since its inception in 1910, the Army and Navy Academy’s curriculum has combined rigorous college-preparatory classes with a leadership training program. As the only military boarding school for boys on the West Coast, the Academy in Carlsbad, California ensures that the Cadet experience focuses on responsibility, citizenship, and character development. Army and Navy Academy educates tomorrow’s leaders through small class sizes for young men in grades 7-12. The Academy …
June 5, 2018
In Santa Fe, Texas, there has been another school shooting. A 17-year-old boy opened fire on classmates and teachers, killing 10 and injuring 10 more. He carefully planned out his crime and journaled it in his cellphone and computer. His Facebook and Instagram accounts, taken down immediately upon the shooting, showed visits to sites like “sickguns” and gunspictures.” In Phoenix, Arizona, a young girl committed suicide after being bullied …
May 25, 2018
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