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On Wrestling, Part 3 — On Sucking Weight

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 20, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Wrestling was, more than anything, about control. We were trying to wrest control of ourselves from the world, from school, from our parents, even from each other. And we were doing this by learning to control other people, to gain mastery of them, to make their limbs...

I write elsewhere, but pretty much about the same things

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

For those of you who are interested, I have a post up over at The Public Humanist. It’s titled, "On Beating Bill Bennett, the Academic Study of Pop Culture, and the Soul of Man Under Late-stage Capitalism." It begins like this: Of the many arguments...

On Wrestling, Part 4, or, I am the champion, my friends

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

The final pay-off, my senior year, the only possible pay-off, was in who I had become. I was, even as a senior, a small man: 5’8” and 145 pounds. My frame was dense, short and thick, but the body that had always frustrated my attempts to adopt the prep...

On Arm Wrestling, or, Winning is for Losers (part one of one)

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 26, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I could talk about a zillion mannish issues since the bar opened. The way other men treat me, say hi, shake my hand, even call me “sir,” is just so weird. I have all this new RESPECT now, and RESENTMENT and JEALOUSY, all because I own a building with a...

In Defense of Bill 'O'Reilly

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 27, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I rarely pass up on opportunity, in life, to say nasty things about FOX News talk show host Bill O’Reilly and the putrescence for which he stands. In the pages of this very paper (if it makes sense to talk about "this paper" in a paperless medium), for...
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