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Camille Paglia likes men, doesn't really think very hard anymore

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 1, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Camille Paglia has a typically irritating review, of three recent academic books on masculinity, in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Not irritating because I think she’s wrong, but because she’s gotten so lazy. If you want to be...

It's NYTimes Fall Fashion Supplement Week at MAID!

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 2, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I stole the "Men’s Fashion Fall 2007" issue of "T", the Times Magazine’s fashion supplement, from my therapist’s office on Friday, and I’ve decided to treat it, over the next five days, as an important cultural text. For...

Man of the House: Fall Fashion Supplement Week cont'd

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 3, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

There’s an interesting dialectic, in men’s fashion magazines like "T," between pushing the butch button and the femme button. Not only are they, in certain respects, inescapably femme — all about decoration and performativity, evanescence...

Jon Stewart shocks, chagrins and de-balls Chris Matthews

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 8, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I want to take a brief detour from New York Times Fall Fashion Supplement Week (which, let’s be honest, was running out of steam anyway) to highlight this video of Jon Stewart making a total fool of Chris Matthews. It’s pretty amazing to see...

More on being the Man and a man and a businessman and on business, and men, with a digression on testosterone

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 10, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Let’s talk about my feelings for a while, shall we? I write this last self-consciously because I’ve got a book based on “Peep Show” making the rounds of publishers and so far we’ve gotten a lot of “Berger’s story is...
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