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by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 15, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Welcome, Pandagon-ers and any others who have found there way here today for the first time. Because we STILL don’t have much in the way of an accessible archive, Here are some links to some previous posts that we’re proud of. Because you already have a...

The Old Ball and Chain Gang

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 17, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

The other day I found myself repeating just the kind of paranoid macho crap I’m always railing against. A friend whom I hadn’t seen in a while asked how things were going with Anja (my sweetie for a year this coming Thursday!, for those of you who...

The beginning of an essay I'll never complete about Texas and masculinity and other things too

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 19, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

My first night in Texas, in January of last year, I was taught to shoot a pistol by the father of the ex-boyfriend of my fiance outside a tiny home in the middle of a mostly abandoned ranch in the farm country outside Gainesville. Coyotes weren’t baying outside,...

The post-colonial semiotics of plugging away on a sticky wicket

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 24, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I found this article at the website of a Jamaican newspaper pretty fascinating. The author, sociologist Peter Espeut, argues that the Caribbean nations made the decision to spend billions of dollars they couldn’t really afford to host this year’s Cricket...

RIP David Halberstam

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 26, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I heard on the radio that David Halberstam died in a car crash yesterday. I’m not usually bothered by the deaths of people I don’t know (the Virginia Tech killings, for instance, mostly left me unaffected), but Halberstam’s death upsets me. His book...
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