by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Aug 15, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Thanks to the good offices of my older brother, Mark "I have a thing for bowties" Oppenheimer, I’ve just published an essay in The New Haven Review of Books, which is Mark’s most recent editorial love child.My essay in the Review is titled...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 8, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’m often someone told to "lighten up" when I respond to something I find offensive, but in thie Allison Stokke brouhaha, I guess I’m just a, crass, jerk-off, dude, or as I prefer, DOOD! Or at least, I’m someone who knows when to pick his...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Aug 17, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
There’s a really fascinating article in this week’s New York Times Magazine about one particular marriage counseling "group" and about the nature of relationship counseling in general.I’ve been in counseling with my wife for not quite two...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 11, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
The men of MAID have gotten a bit of a smackdown, over the last day or two, from Amanda Marcotte, the prime mover of Pandagon and former blogmaster for the John Edwards presidential campaign (for those of you who don’t remember, she was basically forced to...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Aug 20, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’m not sure what I think — scratch that, I think too many things at once about this woman and her shtick (which is not to say it’s bad shtick or bad to be shticky, just that it’s shtick) to articulate right now. I will ponder. Perhaps You will...