by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Apr 30, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I proposed, she accepted. We’re engaged. Second time’s a charm, as they say. I’m sure I’ll have a lot to think and perhaps write about being engaged and how it redefines me as a man among men and women (ugh, did I really just write that?), but...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | May 2, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
The picture above, of the melancholy-looking pregnant woman, is of my wife Jessica, who’s due with our first child, a girl-child, on May 23. I’m posting it for two reasons. The first is that I think it’s cute. She hasn’t had the easiest...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 17, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’m working on my response to this article, "Has Feminism Failed?", that young conservative hotshot Ross Douthat (pictured) published in The Weekly Standard in 2005, but in the meantime I thought you might find it interesting and perhaps...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | May 4, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
So, lately, the new, hip, millennial Radio Shack that sells groovy stuff like them newfangled ipod walkman gadgets has this ad on TV in which a John-Cusack-in-High-Fidelity, presumably barely-employed slacker-type guy has his records strewn all over the apartment as...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 19, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Two things srike me about the case of Genarlow Wilson, the Georgia kid who was sentenced to 10 years in jail for committing oral sex with intent to enjoy with a 15-year-old (he was 17 at the time) at a New Year’s Party. First, I heard today (NPR, Tavis Smiley)...