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Jolie comes into the world

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | May 22, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

My daughter, Jolie Marybeth Grogan-Oppenheimer, was born on Thursday, May 17 at 12:41 p.m. I’ll be writing about it all in a more specifically masculinist vein in the coming weeks, months, years (etc. — I promise this won’t turn into a daddyblog, but...

You've Come a Long Way, Baby / The Handwriting on the Little Blue Text Booklet

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jul 23, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Becoming a man, yet keeping my feminine wiles and ways, a follow up:In the bar partnership, I should note that, my newly discovered manliness in the wider world aside, there are ways in which I take a decidedly “female” role. In partner meetings (I have...

Liability, by Daphne Gottlieb

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | May 28, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Daphne Gottlieb is a dear friend of mine from back in the day, and a fine, fine poet/performer person. She wrote this, the relevance of which I think needs no amplification: Liability One late beautiful afternoon, as everything in my apartment glistens, gilded with...

Sunday night Jolie-blogging

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

I’ve tried to show some restraint on the baby-blogging, but it’s late Sunday night and, man, my baby’s beautiful (not that yours isn’t, whoever you are). I was holding her a few nights ago, maybe 1, 2 in the morning, and Willie Nelson was on...

Guest Post: Big Papi's Big Hugs

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | May 31, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

[Today’s guest poster is Jeremy Sharrard, a native of Springfield, Massachusetts and a longtime Red Sox fanatic. Some years ago, in a burst of ill-considered Sox-thusiasm, Sharrard created Stathounds.com, which promised to grow into the definitive Red Sox...
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