DAILY PHOTO: Boys from the Cardinal Gibbons H.S. Class of 1986, Raleigh, North Carolina. I am absolutely in love with this car. It's a red Buick Regency convertible with a white top. A rare sight even back in 1986. But I can see you Your brown skin shining in the sun...
I never meant to cause you any sorrow I never meant to cause you any pain I only wanted to one time to see you laughing …in the purple rain –Prince, 1984 Why Are Gen X men dying at such an alarming rate? A new study reveals that white, middle-aged men who were between...
I love a good coming-of-age story and Cliff Alspaugh's debut novella is just that, but with an added bonus. It explores father-son relationships and the making of men. We hear the heart-rending news reports all too frequently about the consequences of children and...
There was a review in the Winnipeg Free Press by Ria Julien a few days ago on a new, comedic book about Generation X men in midlife crisis. The title is the ingenious Dadolescence. Here is an excerpt: "Each morning, after sending off his wife, Julie, and their...
40-Something Dads Rocket Man by William Hazelgrove is a novel that captures a 40-something man in hell. The Catcher in the Rye for Generation X men, it nails the times in which we live with the precision of The Graduate. The protagonist, Dale, is plagued with...
Editor’s Note: The following is a personal essay written by Mike Waltman, and originally posted on his Facebook page. When you read it, you will understand why it drew such a positive response. As someone who has survived the beasts of divorce and custody disputes,...
Generation X Men in Midlife Crisis Today, Jonathon Yip responds to A.O. Scott's New York Times essay about Generation X men in midlife crisis. (I wrote about Scott's essay last week.) Yip's essay appears in the Harvard Political Review. Here is an excerpt: ...But we...
In an editorial in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, writer Maria Sciullo asserts that growing up has been hard to do for Generation X men as well as their younger, Gen Y counterparts. She cites the research of Professor Gary Cross the author of Men to Boys: The Making of...
Why do 80 men kill themselves every week? Why are 90 percent of the homeless men? Why do men die, on average, six years before women? Why don't men as a group exist? Gen X Men and Misandry I am posting the following video about misandry (the hatred of men) for the men...
The Philadelphia Inquirer has published a series of articles on Generation X. I really enjoyed this series, but I don't agree that we have to put the happy ending on hold. Nobody is going to tell me that I'm not going to have a happy ending. My happy ending is my...
Latchkey Generation During my first two years of high school, I lived in Southeast Kansas. My parents both worked 20 miles away, across the border in Oklahoma. I was the quintessential latchkey kid. Sometimes, I didn't mind coming home to an empty house, but mostly it...
A student named Molly wrote a scathing editorial for the University of Pittsburgh's, The Llama Ledger about just how much Baby Boomers dislike Generation X. Excerpt: But with great power and success comes a hunger for more power and success, and with the end of the...