by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 5, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I first started using the term “design fag” after two gay menone of them a planner of theme nights at night clubs and the other a designer of floral arrangements for rich people’s housescondescended to me for a few hours one evening, in...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 8, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
If I was slightly more computer savvy I would have stolen a clearer image from Perry Ellis’s fascinating comic strip-based advertising campaign. But go here to see what I’m talking about in better resolution. They have about 8 of these comic strips, each...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 9, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
There’s a clever but typically shallow article in the Times today, "The Invasion of the Alpha Male Democrat," written by the clever but typically shallow Ryan Lizza. I quote at length:the swearing-in ceremony on Thursday was notable for another...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 10, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
“Sincerity, writes Patterson, “requires us to act and really be the way that we present ourselves to others. Authenticity involves finding and expressing the true inner self and judging all relationships in terms of it.”” The Orlando Patterson...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 12, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I don’t know quite what to make of this new webvertising campaign from Old Spice. The gist of it, I’m pretty sure, is something along the lines of "Old Spice: It’s not just your grandfather’s line of masculine grooming liquids, lotions and...