Tom Matlack founded The Good Men Foundation and The Good Men Project Magazine in 2009 under the wing of Ms. Magazine and with $500,000 startup funding

The way Boston-based founder Tom Matlack tells it, the website owes its existence, at least in part, to one very important feminist in his life - his mother.

" he says. "My mother had a strident form of feminism and it influenced me on a personal level - I found it scary."

He rebelled by running far away from this milieu to business school and became a successful venture capitalist. At 31, on the same day that he negotiated a career deal that was going to net him millions, he also experienced what he calls his greatest failure.

"That very day, my wife threw me out of the house for being a drunk and a cheat," he says. "I had to sit in my car in a church parking lot with all my clothes and explain to myself how I'd gone from the guy on the cover of The Wall Street Journal to someone with nowhere to go."

He never reconciled his marriage, but the experience woke him up to the fact that he needed to improve in his roles as a husband and a father. Fourteen years later, he founded the Good Men Project, which, as mentioned, has returned him to some of the ideas of feminism his mother likely held.

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The Good Men Project agenda has been praised by Ms. Magazine

Without directly referencing feminism, the editors take a stand against patriarchal, authoritarian, heterosexist, racist masculinity and focus on the stories of men who seek intimacy in their close relationships and authenticity in their social roles

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The Good Men Project has taken on the daunting task of introducing, unlocking and dismantling the so-called Men’s Rights Movement in a special series of posts this week. My top pick, naturally, was Amanda Marcotte’s, in which she debunks the feminist-scapegoating delusions held by so many misogynist trolls men’s rights activists (MRAs)..

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Let’s get one thing clear from the get go: moms are generally better parents than dads. And that goes double for me. I’ve had three kids across two marriages and I am undoubtedly the weak link.

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