by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 3, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I wanted to throw in this iconic image of John McEnroe and propose him, for your manly consideration, as another masculine model to whom we might give ongoing consideration.
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 5, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
So I was just surfing around the various magazine and newspaper databases, trying to find a way to link Barkley and McEnroe, and I came across this cognitive dissonance-inducing passage from The New Republic:The people who hand out endorsement money are not just...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 6, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Just for the hizz-ell of it, I typed "masculinity and its discontents" into Google to see what comes up. The first few hits refer to an essay from The New York Times on Brokeback Mountain by high mediocre film critic Manohla Dargis. She writes:That...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 7, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
A lovely post from one of the ladies over at Go Fug Yourself, the site which has spawned the greatest number of intra-left internet arguments about the propriety, from a feminist perspective, of criticizing women for dressing badly. In this particular post, we get a...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 8, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
On and off for too many years I’ve puzzled over why Volvo’s logo is the universal male symbol and Dan’s “Mraz”-culinity prototype made me think of it once again, in that Jason Mraz, I’d be willing to bet you dollars to donuts (which...