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You can tell he is as president as he can be with his children considering hes president of the united states. i know for me, as an african-american man, he represents a healthy masculinity on many levels. for me, it makes me step up my game in terms of my fatherhood and my desire to be president, to be loving and caring and nurturing to my daughter and wife as well. i think he makes some men step up their game. a lot of men feel like they cant live up to him or measure up to being a barack obam...

Gay man could play sports is an attack to a straight guys masculinity. what do you mean by that? >> i think that theres a narrative out there that if you are gay and you can play a sport well, then what does that say about straight men because i think that people grow up with the notion that if you are gay, then youre soft or, as chris said, then youre sweet. you know, the fact that a gay man can play a sport better than some straight men is an attack against their own ideas of masculinity. >> i...

Of the film without seeing it. >> let me make it even more controversial. im a fan of rap. youre a fan of hip-hop. were both scholars of it. i see a bunch of guys in hip-hop dissing their women calling them the h word, b word, skeezers, sluts and so on. theres nothing like that in this film. this guy risks his entire life for his woman. so first of all, take notice there. and secondly, you said liberation film. he risks everything for her. yes, the women characters are not as fleshed out as they...

Narrative and more of a liberation narrative. part romance, part comedy. so theres different pieces to it that we can talk about but i dont understand the dismissal of the film without seeing it. >> let me make it even more controversial. im a fan of rap. youre a fan of hip-hop. were both scholars of it. i see a bunch of guys in hip-hop dissing their women calling them the h word, b word, skissers, sluts and so on. theres nothing like that in this film. this guy risks his entire life for his wom...

Narrative and more of a liberation narrative. part romance, part comedy. so theres different pieces to it that we can talk about but i dont understand the dismissal of the film without seeing it. >> let me make it even more controversial. im a fan of rap. youre a fan of hip-hop. were both scholars of it. i see a bunch of guys in hip-hop dissing their women calling them the h word, b word, skeezers, sluts and so on. theres nothing like that in this film. this guy risks his entire life for his wom...

Way to having a society that we can debate ideas and no longer debating basic fairness. >> paris, quickly, do you feel an extra sense of burden to the fact that as role models now, to young african-american men, that you have to help break stereotypes of masculinity within the african-american community where many men feel like they have to be on the down low? >> yes. i mean, ravi and i are two men who will not be intimidated into the closet the closet, and we are but one of a few in a long line...

Ladies which do you prefer when it comes to the mans body type do you like the wrestler type for a body type like ryan gossel gosselin. more women favor a ryan gosselin type. women respond more favorly to thinless when ranking their men over masculinity. this is because being thin indicates a better immune system that could be passed on to your children. >> isn there is no question tha some states are doing better than others fiscally. there is a new survey that ranks how well each state is run....

Behaviors. but now what happens is you end up with a young man wearing a se seal, i belong here. >> thank you for having me on about my piece. when i saw this, i was on my way to panel to discuss barack obama and black masculinity. it was one of these weird incidental moments. he was texting at the time is why you dont see the back of his head. when i saw this, i thought this is actually what were talking about, the cultural significance of barack obama, this young man who might well be pulled o...

Masculinity and fem nimt. until women receive paycheck fairness and until theyre able to adjust the structural inequalities that help suppress women and keep them artificially out of the marketplace and below men, we havent really made the progress that i think people here would support. >> nobody wins if half the population is struggling. >> yeah. >> daye like that point - -- i like that point, though. that men should take care of the kids, especially if the woman is working. >> not baby-sittin...

On single motherhood and how rapidly its increased because people are not getting married. i dont think anyone thinks thats a good thing. thats a tough fate. a lot of this is just happening. but i dont really take a position on whether its terrible or awesome. i think some parts of it are great and some parts of it are really worrisome actually. >> let me push on this a little bit. when we frame it as men, sort of male bodies and female bodies, sort of what these men and women are doing, i think...