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Ignorance and Want
Beyond Christmas On Christmas Eve, we readied out spirits by binging on Christmas movies. Where my wife likes the Hallmark-types, and my kids go for animated or comedy, I like the slightly odd, e.g....
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9 Lessons Learned From Racism
We are divided, in the US, in the UK, in the world. Trump lost. Now we can mark the occasion with a fresh start and move on swiftly from the last 4 years. *** 1. Baby Steps If you think you’re too...
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The Redeemability of Archie Bunker
We have all met an “Archie Bunker” at some point or another in our lives. A loud and openly-bigoted person, spouting a seemingly never ending tirade against everyone not like him, he is so...
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To Represent a Man
— How is humanness conveyed in the traditions and ethics of your culture? “It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time...
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Is it Bias or Ignorance, or Both?
What comes to mind when you hear the word bias? Do you have a fixed definition that comes to mind almost immediately without hesitation or do you ponder the word and reply intentionally? Bias itself is...
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Confirmation Bias: Feels Great but Looks Stupid
You guys, I’m troubled. So much of the voting populace rely entirely on social media “news” and 7th-hand anecdotal accounts to solidify their beloved prejudice. It’s an unbridled confirmation bias...
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The Plight of the Poor Black Girl at a PWI
I have spent a lot of time among the “elite”; the white upper class of North Jersey suburbia. I grew up in the typical picture of an “inner city” neighborhood, with 3 younger siblings and a mother...
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Acquiring Ignorance
Ignorance is one of the causes of unintended consequences listed by Robert Merton in “The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action” (the others being error, short-term vs long-term...
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I Can Think of One Wall Christians Should Support Building
— This post was previously published on Derek Penwell and is republished here with permission from the author. — ◊♦◊ Talk to you soon. If you believe in the work we are doing here at The Good Men...
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What I Learned from a Week of Advice-Seeking
By Dan Rockwell Those eager to give advice may not know what the heck they’re talking about. The trouble with receiving advice is YOU didn’t think of it. That makes you skeptical. It means you’re...
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Autism, Women, and LGBTQ
— Our beloved 4.5-year-old son, Kasra, is autistic. And it has taken a huge toll on our family. Not because of how he has been affected by autism, but because of the way I was. I have been particularly...
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4 Reasons Leaders Don’t Notice Good Performance
By Dan Rockwell What goes unnoticed gradually loses value. What gets noticed improves. 4 reasons leaders don’t notice good performance: Ignorance. Upper-level leaders don’t know what front-line...
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Nine Lessons I Learned from Mentors
— Ah, teenagers. Those years when we know everything. At least we think we do. A few years later, we grow up and we realize that we might not know everything. During those rebellious years we think our...
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I’m Ignorant, and That’s Okay
— There is a simple phrase in most languages that holds a great deal of power. Three simple words that when strung together have the power to irrevocably alter our relationships with other people....
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How I Know We Need Autism Awareness
— This past Friday I hopped into my car at a very early hour to make a three-and-a-half hour drive to a monthly developmental disability advocacy training. It’s a brutal two days, with the drive one...
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How I Explained Racism to My Biracial Son
There are things we don’t ever want to tell our kids. Racism is right at the top of that list. Children instinctively know that we are all just people. That we’re all the same. Who wants to be the one...
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“Would You Rather Your Kids Had Feminism or Cancer?”
This was the question Milo Yiannopoulos, technology editor for Breitbart, the mainsail of alt-right news, posed to his 21,000 Twitter members the end of last year. The results of his informal survey...
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The Question of White Ignorance
In an article by Ta-Nehisi Coates entitled “My President was Black” describing ex-president Barack Obama, he stated that “he appealed to a belief in innocence — in particular, a white innocence – that...
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When Families Attack: How Gays Survive the Ignorance and Rejection of Their...
Embed from Getty Images—When I announced my pending marriage more than four months ago, my family was very vocal with their disapproval.Some of the bullshit I heard was just mesmerizing.“You don’t...
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The Question Before Us
The Question Before UsTo B or not to B?To C or not to C?One philosophical questionfollowed by another,alphabetically,& adding up to two.To P or not to P?A cruder, far...
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