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The lines we draw

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | May 7, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

In order to live our lives without taking on an almost unbearable burden of guilt and responsibility, we draw a series of lines beyond which we refuse to trace the web of harm we’re potentially inflicting on others. When we hit our wives, we feel responsible for...

Flight of the Conchords and their subtly misogynistic tinge and my love/hate relationship with hipster doods

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 21, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I don’t think I’ve delved too deep, on this site, into the nuances of my conflicted relationship with the hipster male, but it’s a subject of some interest to me, in a I-hate-them-because-secretly-I-want-to-be-them kind of way. I’ve never quite...

I turn 31, still get a kick out of making a stuffed puppet monkey masturbate itself

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | May 8, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

For your viewing pleasure, a short video we made on Saturday night at the tail end of my 31st birthday party. The monkey was one of my gifts — I’m pretty sure it was intended for my soon-to-arrive daughter, but I’m not sure I can give it to her in...

Digby Revealed: Consider me (mildly) chastened

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 21, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

For the first year or two of reading Digby, the influential liberal blogger who until this week was completely pseudonymous, I just assumed that s/he was a man. At some point I was tipped off to the possibility that, since s/he didn’t claim a particular gender,...