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Johnny Mac

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.

An Anti-Barkley Intervention

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...

Our Title Has Legs

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...

Fugging at its finest

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...

Don't you wish your Scion was man like me? Fug, yeah, you do.

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...
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