by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 12, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I find myself oddly compelled by DMX, a strange, very dark, extraordinarily charismatic, probably mentally ill, frequently arrested rapper originally from Baltimore. Some of it, I’m guessing, is the typical white liberal Jewish psychosexual fascination with...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 13, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
[I was going back through some of my unpublished work today and came across this essay, written a few years ago, about my time as a high school wrestler. In the spirit of letting no halfway decent writing go to waste, I’d thought I’d share it with you....
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 14, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
[This is the second installment of an essay I wrote about my time as a high school wrestler. Part 1 is here.]Sophomore and junior years were practice years. They were years of more wins and fewer losses but more than that they were years of drills. They were...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 17, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’ll return to my essay about wrestling in a day or two, but I was alerted to this trailer, for the movie "King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters," by my old college roommate, and I thought I’d take a breather from my manly memories of wrestling and...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 19, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
For sheer, postmodern manly exuberance, not much beats this little Daily Show lovefest, from the Emmys. Is anyone right now doing more than these three guys to redefine what it means to be a man in the 21st century? I hope not.