by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 24, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
So I’m "reading" a recent issue of GQ (one doesn’t really read a magazine like GQ so much as absorb its ambience and feel badly about not being able to afford the beautiful clothes in the advertisements and not being as good looking as the...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 25, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
If you have a few minutes, and would like to see a neat You-tubey kind of thing, check out this film created by one of my co-workers during his wife’s pregnancy. My colleague is a graphic designer/artist/videographer, and his wife is a modern dancer–he...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 26, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I don’t know where I’ve been for the past eight months or so, but I somehow only saw Burger King’s “Manthem” commercial for the first time the other day. In case you’re the other person who hasn’t seen it, it goes like this:...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 1, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I have a manfession to make. After a lifetime of being a huge NBA and sometime baseball fan who has (at least since the retirement of Fran Tarkenton, Lynn Swann, and Terry Bradshaw, which came after a period of huge O.J. Simson adoration) long reviled the gridiron as...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 5, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Sometimes, the more I think and write about these masculinity issues, the more I think they’re just personulinity issues. To wit: So the other night I’m sitting watching Demetri Martin’s Comedy Central special, “Demetri Martin: Person,”...
