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The Perfect Gift for a Man

A few months back, the Inspire Foun­da­tion ran a cam­paign they called Man Week. Designed to call atten­tion to the ter­ri­ble loss occur­ring amongst young men deal­ing with depres­sion and sui­cide (accord­ing to the Aus­tralian Bureau of Sta­tis­tics, the cur­rent sui­cide rate for men in Aus­tralia is more than three times the rate of women) […]

The change

A cou­ple of weeks ago, my friend, Gavin Heaton, tagged me to write a Man­Week post. He wanted me, and the oth­ers tagged, to dis­cuss what we thought it meant to be a man, and why. I didn’t respond then, because I had too many things bounc­ing around in my head to say any­thing coherent. […]