Every Monday we talk about Relationships, Sex & Love, Etc. on a LIVE call with our community at The Good Men Project. We call them ConvoCasts -- they are like Podcasts but you are in them! This is the recording of the call from Monday, March 15, 2021, all about identity and sexualities. We discuss a full range of ways people describe themselves when it comes to gender, identities and relationships. We talk about how people define themselves, and how others can become allies for letting people become their authentic selves. We tackle tough topics, because we want to figure out a way to create a more inclusive culture and a better world for everyone. 

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Love, Sex Etc. Live Call Recording: Identity and Sexualities

Have you been to one of our ConvoCasts -- they are like Podcasts but you are in them! Every Monday we talk about Relationships, Sex & Love, Etc. on a LIVE call with our community at The Good Men Project. This is the recording of the call from Monday, March 29, 2021 -- about dating when marginalized. 

We heard from a diverse group about how they navigated the dating world as POC, trans, non-binary, fat, and more. We tackle tough topics, because we want to figure out a way to create a more inclusive culture and a better world for everyone. 

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Love, Sex Etc. Live Call Recording: Dating While Marginalized

Every Monday, we talk about Relationships, Sex & Love, Etc. on a LIVE call with our community at The Good Men Project. We call them ConvoCasts -- they are like Podcasts but you are in them! This is the recording of the call from Monday, March 22, 2021, all about consent. How do we teach it, how do we talk about it, how do we use it? Consent is not just a one time conversation partners need to have with each other, nor is it a single "talk" parents need to have with their children. It is a lifelong practice of respecting other people's boundaries and learning to communicate openly about needs and desires. We tackle the difficult issues in order to create a more inclusive culture and a better world for everyone. 

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Love, Sex Etc. Live Call Recording: Consent

Every Tuesday evening our #StopRacism group looks at racism through news and world events. This LIVE call with The Good Men Project community has been happening for years and is life-changing for the participants. This is the recording of the call from Tuesday, October 5, 2021.







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Hatred, Divisiveness -- And the Ways Racism Permeates Every System [Live Conversation]

While sexual harassment has been associated with men in power such as former financier Jeffrey Epstein or well-known film mogul, Harvey Weinstein, the underlying problem of sexual harassment is a societal problem of the "man box" where men learn toxic behaviors from other men.

WHAT DOES SEXUAL HARASSMENT LOOK LIKE?

• Unwanted jokes, gestures, offensive words on clothing, and unwelcome comments

• Touching and any other bodily contact such as scratching or patting a coworker’s back, grabbing an employee around the waist etc.

• Repeated requests for dates that are turned down or unwanted flirting

• Transmitting or posting emails or pictures of a sexual or other harassment-related nature

• Displaying sexually suggestive objects, pictures, or posters

• Playing sexually suggestive music

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines sexual harassment: 

"It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person's sex. Harassment can include 'sexual harassment' or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.

"Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person's sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general.

"Both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex."

Sexual harassment is important to discuss because it has become an acceptable form of bullying which is seemingly not recognized by society at large, particularly by men. 

WHY IT MATTERS: 

Sexual harassment undermines the social mobility of women, preventing them from conducting their business safely without fear of their personal space. We all should be able to go to work, walked down the street, take classes, enjoy dinner or cocktail without fear of molestation and continued unwanted attention.

WHAT CAN WE DO TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES REGARDING SEXUAL HARASSMENT? 

The general consensus of sexual harassment is that it will not disappear on its own. The most effective weapon against sexual harassment is prevention. In fact, it is more likely that when the problem is not addressed, the harassment will worsen and become more difficult to remedy as time goes on. 

The best ways to deal with harassment is to directly confront it and create an atmosphere where such behavior is both not tolerated or condoned in any fashion. Addressing sexual harassment needs to be systematic and through, especially in the workplace. 

"Anti-harassment policies explain what harassment is, tell all employees that harassment will not be tolerated, and set out how employers and employees should respond to incidents of harassment. Anti-harassment polices should also set forth a detailed mechanism by which employees can make complaints when sexual harassment occurs."

Tonight on Love, Sex, Etc, we're going to talk about sexual harassment and how it affects your life.

• Has sexual harassment been a problem for you? 

• How did you deal with it? Are some techniques better than others? 

• Has sexual harassment grown more or less prominent in your life?

• Has the culture of pick-up artists and other serial sexual harassment affected how you deal with men or women today?

• Has the #MeTooMovement changed how your workplace addresses sexual harassment?

All this and more, tonight at 5:00 PM PDT.

A live-cast of The Good Men Project produced by Lisa Hickey
Show host: Katt Starr

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Sex, Love, Etc with Katt Starr Discusses Sexual Harassment [Live Conversation]

Consent is like FRIES.
Freely given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, Specific.

In recent months, the #MeToo movement has demonstrated a need to transform relationship parameters so that sexual relationships have clearly defined boundaries and require specific language to ensure consent is clear, coherent, willing, and ongoing. Should anything change at any time, consent can change and be withdrawn by either party.

When we talked about this we mentioned that consent was an active event. You had to express this permission and could never be implied. The absence of a 'no' is not a yes.

Consent is also coherent. Someone who is incapacitated, not rational or reasonable cannot give consent. People who are asleep or incapacitated cannot give consent.

Consent is always willing and never arrived at through physical or psychological intimidation. Violence or threat of violence negates consent as well. This imbalance doesn't have to only be physical; an imbalance in power at work, for example (someone under your authority) cannot give consent.

Consent is ongoing. Consent must be granted at each step of physical intimacy. Consent today does not necessarily mean consent the next time.

But let's imagine a world where everyone is able to express themselves well, chooses wisely, and finds someone they want to consent to have a physical relationship with: Now what?

America is not known for being a sexually expressive society. While we use the idea of sex to sell almost anything, we don't actually talk about the sexual act or teach sexuality to our children. In some parts of the country, we won't even allow our high schools the capacity to teach our children. Vast swaths of the country are proud of their sexually repressive nature and promote a lack of sexual knowledge as a sign of virtue.

This means you can find yourself in the unfortunate position of starting a relationship with someone who may be more or less experienced than you are sexually. It is possible you may even find yourself in a relationship with someone who doesn't understand the idea of sexual reciprocity and may choose to get their own needs met while ignoring yours.

How do you talk to a potential partner BEFORE the sexual act to learn their level of knowledge, interest, and capacity for learning before you get started?

Is your partner receptive to learning from you?

Can they take instruction? Are they getting better?

How long should you tolerate a selfish partner unwilling to make an effort to please you?

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Would You Like Fries With That? Love, Sex, Etc. [Live Recording]

Switching Gears: After two weeks of discussing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, its initial onslaught and devastation around the world, the discovery of vaccines that offered a degree of protection to an unsuspecting world, but rather than being a panacea, Human nature undermined the benefits of the vaccines.

As the failed presidency of Donald Trump gave way to President Biden, the new administration was unable to get a handle on the virus because of mutations that became more virulent (Delta) and more communicable (Omicron).

The new presidency wrestled with the corporate and Republican-sponsored ideas of a "return to normalcy" which included opening businesses and schools despite the continued onslaught of coronavirus sickness and deaths in this nation and beyond.

Now that society has, for good or ill (and mostly ill in my opinion) decided to ignore the coronavirus and its assuredly endemic status, which will result in hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world every year, we return to the conversation around climate change and in particular "greenhouse gas emissions."

In an article today from the Harvard Political Review we are asked to consider: Who’s Really Responsible for Climate Change? [https://harvardpolitics.com/climate-change-responsibility/]

"The article opens with: Climate change threatens to transform the world as we know it. At the current rate of global greenhouse gas emissions, climate change could displace two billion people due to rising ocean levels, cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars, and cause upwards of 250,000 additional deaths per year — all before 2100." Worse than these simple facts are the gaslighting efforts of major corporations to push the blame for climate change into the laps of consumers as if the core of the GHG emissions lies in the laps of the citizenry rather than the powerful corporations who run this nation. The article continues:

"However, the focus on changing consumer behavior that this argument reflects misplaces responsibility for the GHG emissions driving the climate crisis on the individual consumer, conveniently ignoring the disproportionate climate impact of corporate interests."

How much difference is there between the consumer GHG emissions and the corporate powers, the state-sanctioned entities who control the entire fossil fuel industry? Calling it an order of magnitude would be an understatement.

"In fact, only 100 investor and state-owned fossil fuel companies are responsible for around 70 percent of the world’s historical GHG emissions. This contradicts the narrative pushed by fossil fuel interests that individuals’ actions alone can combat climate change, as individual actions have minute effects relative to these emissions — average American households produce only 8.1 metric tons of carbon dioxide out of a total of over 33 billion tons globally."

70% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions are caused by 100 major organizations around the world.

• What can be done to address the gaslighting?
• How do we get people to understand the scope of the problem?
• What can we do to get corporations to begin to think about their industrial effects on the environment?
• Can individuals through financial and political action begin to make a change in time to prevent or mitigate some of the known and continuing deleterious environmental effects we have already seen and know are going to continue in the future?

Other references: US Military Pollution: The World’s Biggest Climate Change Enabler [https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/]

All that and more, tonight with Thaddeus Howze and Carol Bluestein on Climate Change by the Elements!

It has been three years: have we learned anything which can help us defeat this viral scourge or are we doomed to dance this viral jig for a decade or more?

Who’s Responsible for Greenhouse Gasses? [Live Conversation]

Groups focused on the healing of men, either by a release of emotions among other men, claiming their cavemanhood in a camping environment or complaining about child support. Seemed simple, harmless, and even positive enough. But there was always a hint of misogyny; a hint of Blaming women for their plight. Now, these groups are more extreme. They support and encourage misogyny. They, also support, encourage and celebrate violence against women. We’ve heard many cliches from the manosphere like: nice guys finish last, women only want what assets you can give them, women are not loyal, the only thing that women offer that’s valuable are their womb, men should be the king of the household, etc.


Wikipedia says: The manosphere is a heterogeneous group of online communities that include men's-rights activists (MRAs), incels (involuntary celibates), nigcels (Black incels) Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), pick-up artists (PUAs), and fathers' rights groups. Some of these groups have adversarial relationships with one another.


There’s language like “red pill.” Taking the Red Pill is a reference to the movie The Matrix, where ingesting a red pill, as opposed to the blue pill, reveals the reality of the world. The world where men are mocked and feminists are the oppressors. A world where there are alpha males and beta males. A world where actually loving a woman makes you “a simp”


There are now new leaders arising fast. With the assistance of social media, they can get their damaging philosophies to more immature, unhappy men that also consider themselves disenfranchised. I believe with Covid cabin fever, it’s the worst it’s been with men like Kevin Samuels, who makes his living humiliating women and trying to convince them of their value is only in their submission to a man, creating children and staying as “pure” as possible (with each sexual experience a woman has, her value lowers."

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Let's Talk About the Manosphere [Live Recording]

I normally have a live-cast phone call on climate change on Thursdays. This is a live phone call where the show hosts take on a topic around climate change and answer questions from a live studio audience.

This is a tough gig done live. We have a dedicated audience who has continued to show up, learn and adjust their lives based on the information we have gathered over the last four years.

Today, I question whether there is a need for such a podcast since every news service is finally getting hip to the state of our climate emergency and are finally staffing their newsrooms with dedicated climate reporters.

But before the major newsrooms were talking about climate change, I was talking about it for at least 48 HOURS a year, or about an hour a week. Most media services were dedicating five to ten minutes a WEEK or about 4.8 HOURS per year.

Having done this podcast with The Good Men Project for the last four years with my cohost Carol Bluestein, we have talked about a host of topics, ranging from rising temperatures causing extreme drought and regional megafires to the ubiquitous microplastics showing up in our food and our bodies thanks to manufacturing processes and plastics dumped at sea.

SHOULD WE GIVE WAY TO MEDIA-SPONSORED CLIMATE REPORTERS?

Join us for Climate Change by the Elements where we are going to talk about the future of climate change and the reporting being done.

• Is it too little, too late?
• What can we do to make more people aware?
• What can we do to prepare for inevitable worldwide events?

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Is There a Place for Climate Podcasts by Science Enthusiasts?

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Mass Shootings and Collective Trauma [Live Recording]

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Radicalizing Youth [Live Conversation]

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How the Media Gives Us Unreasonable Expectations in Relationships [Live Recording]

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What is Trauma? [Live Recording

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The Pandemic of Violence [Live Recording]

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The Commercialization of Pride [Live Recording]

Changing Perceptions Around Men, Masculine People, and Abuse [Live Recording]

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Racism and Gun Control [Live Recording]

Isaiah Austin Interview (four)

Why We Run #36

Mike Kasdan's Interview on CBC Radio On the Coast with Stephen Quinn.  6/10/2016.

GMP Kasdan Interview on CBC - Rape and Sexual Abuse

Lisa Hickey of the Good Men Project leads the weekly conference call, coaching writers on how to leverage social media to grow their personal brand.

Good Men Project - Weekly Conference Call 5-11-12

Good Men Project conference call for 6-1-12. A discussion about how to work with an editor, improve as a writer and about how the leverage social media to drive traffic to your work.

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Sex, Love and Relationships: Rejection (Love & Fear)

Will mass migration be a challenge for the early to mid 21st century?

As climate change rocks food production, as deserts get larger and storms become more powerful, food precarity and outright scarcity will rise worldwide

from World Atlas:

"War, hunger, political persecution, and poverty have displaced about 24 million people over the past decade, but a new force, climate change, is set to trigger the largest mass migration ever witnessed.

The United Nations forecasts that climate change will displace more than 200 million people by 2050, and the figure could rise to a billion. Beyond the headlines of extreme weather are millions of ordinary people who have been displaced and have to rebuild their lives.

The exact number of climate refugees cannot be ascertained because it depends on how the world scales down on greenhouse gases and adapt to changing weather norms. In 2018, about 19 million people were displaced by natural disasters, and the population is projected to rise year-on-year due to worsening weather patterns. The rising temperature in the oceans and atmosphere is supercharging storms resulting in record floods, intense heatwaves, famine, and droughts.
CLIMATE CHANGE BY THE ELEMENTS
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What Is Mass Migration?

Our relationship with nature has frayed to the point of being unsustainable... for us.

As humanity's relationship with the world continues to break down, we are forced to consider the fact we have failed to make the proper decisions about nature, the use of natural resources, the use of industrial processes and our failure to become part of the natural order.

Using technology, humanity has chosen to consider itself above 'natural laws'. We consider our need to produce materials, renewable or recyclable or not, as a right which cannot be infringed upon. Even as suggest such things, our weather has gone from seasonal and predictable, to extremes of weather and introducing two new season variances, the extreme seasons of flood and fire. These new seasons, span months across the calendar and affect life around the world.

Witness the latest monsoons in China, Japan and North Korea, born out of rising temperatures in the placid but hot Indian Ocean. Such storms form there and move out onto the monsoon track. Such storms normally pass over the region and disappear, but in recent weeks, the storms stall over Japan and Korea dumping multiple inches of rain every hour until entire towns are flooded.

These storms are just a symptom of a larger and more problematic relationship. As the industrial age and mechanization of resource acquisition heats ups, so will the side effects of the industrial age: waste heat, greenhouse gases, pollution of air and water, dead zones and acidification of the ocean, loss of biodiversity and rising sea levels.

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They Paved Paradise. Recording of our weekly live discussion about climate change

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