by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 9, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
“`Something wonderful, but that I also have mixed feelings about, has happened this week here in Western Massachusetts AM radio. With no warning that I heard (as you may have noticed is the way this usually happens), the local sports talk radio station, this...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 10, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’m not entirely clear what this has to do with masculinity, but it’s chilly in Austin today, and so I wore my sweatshirt hood up on the walk from home to bus and then bus to office, and therefore had cause to reflect, once again, on the inadequacy of the...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 11, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I was messing around with my wife’s tape measure last night — she’d had it out to measure her pregnant belly — and I thought to myself, "hey, let’s see what my waistline is these days." I’ve put on about ten pounds in the...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 12, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Interesting article in the Village Voice about a Brooklyn subculture of young, thugged-out Black and Hispanic lesbians, women who’ve taken male gangsta rappers as their models. They treat their femme lesbian counterparts like property ("It’s a...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 12, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Amanda over at Pandagon has a great post up today riffing on my recent ‘plaint that the writing in the feminist blogosphere is too activist-minded and not personal enough for my tastes. Talking about a letter to an advice column in which a feminist wonders why...
