Newsweek writes about men this issue, in a cover story by two young male writers, Andrew Romano and Tony Dokoupil, both of whom are very good. Their thesis is that hewing to traditional male roles is holding men back in the modern era, and the time is now for men to boldly go into a more evolved – maybe even more womanish! – version of “manhood.” I don’t disagree that there is more opportunity where restraints are relaxed and diversity is encouraged – duh. But I challenge the framing of the issue: That men are in crisis, on the decline, and “going off the rails.” In fact, the framing of the male-female ratio as being more ‘dangerous’ to men as it equalizes or, in some (very limited) situations, inverts, is not only wildly skewed but also completely fails to appreciate, consider and include the full context – i.e. how gender parity might actually be better for all concerned. Actually, it doesn’t completely fail to appreciate, consider and include – there are a few nods to that reality, buried deep in the article and in one glaring case, at the end of the second-last paragraph. There was also no – absolutely no! – reference to or inclusion of gay men (and/or women) in this piece.

The following is a post I wrote on ChangeTheRatio.com in response to this by Pownce’s Leah Pulver at the Daily Beast responding to TechCrunch’s MichaeI Arrington responding to Shira Ovide‘s piece in the Wall Street Journal quoting me. If that hasn’t already driven you away, read on.

The Daily Caller has published the latest of its Daily Journolist Leaks, and this time, the supposed liberal cabal is eating one of their own. Countdown host Keith Olbermann is the subject of this installment, in which the J-listers trash him as “sexist” and “misogynist,” mainly over his treatment of Carrie Prejean and Hillary Clinton. While I disagree with the Daily Caller’s publication of the emails, and their petulant handling thereof, this round also illustrates what pisses me off about Journolist and Olbermann.

This week marks the one year anniversary of the launch of Mediaite, and what a year it has been. As Dan Abrams notes, predictions of Mediaite’s doom were greatly exaggerated, and as Mediaite columnist and White House reporter from Day One, I have viewed the site’s successful first year from a unique perch. When Rachel Sklar pitched the site to me, I have to confess I was a little bit skeptical, but it didn’t take long for me to see that she and Dan were on to something.

Mediaite Office Hours is live today from Livestream.com today at 3pmET – with CNN anchor/correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNBC’s Darren Rovell and Politico’s Patrick Gavin. There’s certainly a lot to talk about.

It is hard to believe it’s been a full year since our newbie website with the awkward-sounding name was welcomed to the blogosphere with accolades such as “sounds…like something you’d give to a toddler suffering diarrhea,” or “no one really cares about the business and personalities behind the media,” or my personal favorite, “Mediaite feels a bit doomed.” Ah, yes — that honeymoon period was so sweet. We all love to curl up with the scrapbook and reminisce about the early days.

It seems like political sexual attacks are the order of the day. On the heels of Kathleen Parker’s asinine assault on President Obama‘s “manhood” (deliciously deconstructed in a must-read post by Rachel Sklar) and in the context of a debate over the “womanhood” of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Sen. Lindsey Graham has dropped a hilarious response to those on the right who have accused him of being blackmailed over his supposed secret gayness.

Want to know what Mediaite and CNN have in common? Both outlets filed original reports covering the G20 conference in Toronto today via modern telephonic technology. Of course CNN is a part of a billion dollar conglomerate that can easily afford a local ENG shoot cover the protests in Canada’s largest city. But for some reason, the following video appears to have been filed by Jeanne Meserve via the sort of satellite phone technology usually reserved for the outer reaches of war torn Afghanistan.

Mediaite Office Hours is live today from Livestream.com today at 3pmET – with CNN’s Ali Velshi, John Gapper of the Financial Times, Mediaite columnist Philip Bump and more.

Former Obama administration Special Adviser on Green Jobs (and current Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress) Van Jones would seem to share little common ground with his nemesis, Fox News personality Glenn Beck. Bound together in the “Beat it” video of history as bitter nemeses, I found out last night that they do agree on at least one thing: this website.

Mediaite Office Hours is live today from Livestream.com’s brand new studio at 3pmET, with author David Goodwillie, talk sports with SportsGrid.com and more.

Mediaite Office Hours is live today from Livestream.com’s brand new studio at 3pmET, with Newsday TV critic Verne Gay, New York magazine’s Will Leitch and more.

Woo-hoo! Elena Kagan is everywhere! It’s Kaganfest 2010! She’s totally debatable as a Supreme Court nominee! She knows Eliot Spitzer! She’s better for a headline than Taylor Momsen! Everybody loves the Supreme Court! That is…now. But in 2008 during the campaign, no one cared.

It’s time for a special edition of Mediaite Office Hours – Book Club is back! We’re live from Livestream.com’s brand new studio, at 3pmET, with authors Katie Rosman, David Sax and Micki Maynard.

Last night Rachel Sklar was a guest on HLN’s The Joy Behar Show with comedian Jay Mohr and Maxim editor Joe Levy to discuss Emma the Amish Model (NSFW!), whether President Obama really suggested Rush Limbaugh go “play with himself,” the veracity — and relevance — of the rumors about Elena Kagan’s sexuality, and whether it was “just a matter of time” before someone made a Jersey Shore-inspired porno. It got…feisty.

We’re back with a packed Mediaite Office Hours, from Livestream.com’s brand new studio, at 3pmET. Joining us today will be NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell, CNBC’s Darren Rovell and more.

This a photo of GQ Washington Correspondent Ana Marie Cox and top Obama advisor David Axelrod. Yes, Axelrod is important, but let’s focus for a moment on Cox, who has indelibly made a mark on the White House Correspondents Dinner in one crucial way: It was she who dubbed it “NerdProm.”

We’re back with a packed Mediaite Office Hours, from Livestream.com’s brank new studio, at 3pmET. Joining us today will be ABC’s Rick Klein, Time‘s James Poniewozik and more.

This weekend, Mediaite Editor at Large Rachel Sklar was a guest on Your Money with Ali Velshi, along with comedian Hal Sparks, to discuss transparency issues around sponsored tweets on Twitter, the notion of “Too Big To Fail” and whether the media’s enthusiasm for covering the first so-called “green shoots” of economic recovery is justified, [...]

No, you are not seeing things. The Mediaite homepage now features a slightly different — and we feel, greatly improved — layout and design. It has been nine months since we launched, and in keeping in spirit with that annual rite of passage known as spring cleaning, we thought the time was right for a little bit of tidying. Join me, won’t you, as we walk through some of the changes.

Last night, I joined Bonnie Fuller and Michael Musto on the eponymous show of Joy Behar to talk about Kitty Kelley’s new tell-all (or, more accurately, tell-some) book about Oprah Winfrey. There was revelation (Oprah’s mom won’t tell her who her biological father is), skepticism (while Kelley concluded reluctantly that there was no evidence to [...]

We’re back with a packed Mediaite Office Hours, from Livestream.com’s studio, at 3pmET. Joining us today will be CNN’s John King, CBS’ Seth Davis and more.

Ink-stained wretches, it’s not just you! The social media and Twitter elite fret about the future of journalism too — and wonder how it will survive the digital revolution. At SXSWi, there was no shortage of panels obsessively deconstructing this topic (and tweeting about it, natch).

It’s time for a new episode of Mediaite Office Hours, from Livestream.com’s studio at 3pmET. Joining us today will be The Wrap’s Josef Adalian, Salon‘s Alex Koppelman, and more.

It’s time for a new episode of Mediaite Office Hours, from Livestream.com’s studio at 3pmET. Joining us today will be Slate‘s Mickey Kaus, Jonathan Fuhrman, and more.