by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 4, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
True story. After I filled the house with the toxic smoke of the burning bottle and then lapsed for about 36 hours into a post-traumatic depressive self-loathing funk of ineffectuality, my wife had a dream in which the two of us were trying to have sex but...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 6, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
This is, along with being a lovely duet by Damien Rice and Ray LaMontagne, obviously a pissing match (or, if you prefer, a sword fight) between two pretty sizable male egos. Hard to say who wins. Rice has the more subtle voice (and is a superior songwriter, though...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 7, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
A virtual thanks to Peter Suderman, part of the collective over at The American Scene (an interesting blog with an unusually heterogeneous mix of ideological impulses), for bringing my (and now your) attention to this passage from a review of the latest Russell Crowe...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 8, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Okay, friends, I am now a bar owner. I’m that guy. I’m pouring drinks, kissing hands and shaking babies. I’m signing paychecks, fer crissake. I’m the motherfucking man. So far, I think I’m being a good man at it, a good boss, a good...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 11, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Not too long ago, I wrote a short post about Rudy Giuliani, making the case that his toughguy machisimo act was really a rather transparent cover for the truth about him, which is that he’s a big honking nerd. I wrote: This fact about him—that he’s a...
