by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 23, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
In the day before yesterday’s post, after a great deal of throat-clearing, I wrote the following, fairly succinct summary of how I believed my interest in gay male culture is in fact a kind of sublimation of my repressed interest in women.What’s compelling...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 26, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I had been planning, for today’s post, to feature a picture of me in our brand new Baby Bjorn, which arrived in the mail yesterday. Unfortunately, I’m both very vain and terribly unphotogenic, so after an unsatisfying photo shoot I decided to abdicate in...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 27, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I think Jamie’s going to be chiming in later today with an attack on the article about Playboy that I found so invigorating, but in the meantime I thought I’d direct your attention to this Youtube clip of a recent monologue by Late Late Show host Craig...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 1, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
One thing bugged me about all the refreshing feedback from NBA players in response to the John Amaechi-Tim Hardaway brouhaha: the response by many black athletes that, based on what they and their forbears have gone through, they have learned not to hate....
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 4, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Just up at dadlabs.com is a book review by my very own bad self. The book under review is Alternadad, a memoir of dad-dom by Neal Pollack. I wrote about Pollack a few weeks ago, when my book review was merely a potentiality, but now I can, and in fact do, speak with...