by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 20, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Over at the Public Humanist I have a post, "A Black guy and a Jewish guy walk into a bar … or, Reflections on masculinity in a multicultural society," about my usual preoccupations– Jews, blacks, men, etc. It includes the following,...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 29, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Courtesy of this wonderful, gaylarious survey of Jon Stewart’s greatest gay moments, I came across this clip of Stewart dealing with the whole Larry Craig in the bathroom incident by interspersing his commentary with audio clips of Craig explaining how he...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 24, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’m not as concerned with the logic of it all as he (I think it’s a "he"), but I think that whoever writes Witz Pickz laid it out pretty well:This commercial recently got shortened from its original length because the producers realized it...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 5, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I recently finished Theodore Rex, which is the second volume of Edmund Morris’s major man-crush of a biography of Teddy Roosevelt. Morris is an odd bird of a writer; he’s exceptionally good at storytelling, and at conjuring up the details that allow you to...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 25, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’m not usually one for the whole flashmob thing, where a bunch of people who don’t really know each other get together and engage in some random act of humorousness, but this flashmob/prank/stunt thing that a NYC improv group pulled off is rather funny,...