by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 20, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
“ . . . he advertises the refusal (or has ended up standing in for the people who do; more on that in a minute). It’s that his life — with its cool T-shirts, cool jobs, cool kids, cool art, hip music — is a walking implication to the rest of us...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 22, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
A new study in "Psychology of Men and Masculinity," which is an academic journal that I assume has something to do with the psychology of men and masculinity, has made the astonishing discovery that there’s a correlation between being an old school...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 23, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’ve been musing about the recent Mantheon wars ("wars" is perhaps an exaggeration; it’s been more of a rhetorical slap fight, and the slaps aren’t even that hard).They started because Jamie has a MAID-crush on David Sedaris, and so he...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 26, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
So the Geico people are in talks with ABC about creating a sitcom around the caveman concept that’s been at the center of their most popular advertising campaign. As the article in Slate.com explains:A few weeks ago, word arrived that the Geico...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 28, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
In several interviews, former NBA player John Amaechi who recently came out as gay has said that teammates sometimes found him a bit light in the Reeboks, but that they usually laughed it off as a factor of his Britishness. Well, friends, I return from England with...