by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 8, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Another Beer Commercial I have a very clear memory of writing about the beer commercial that started it all off for me (and by “it” I mean my obsession with and rage at images of masculinity in beer ads), but I can’t seem to find said post in our...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 26, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
This teaser for what’s apparently a forthcoming Jean-Claude Van Damme experimental meta-movie, in which Jean-Claude plays himself in a biopic about his own descent into washed-up, mildly delusional post-actorhood, has me rather excited. The article at Slate.com...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 9, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Courtesy of Andrew Sullivan, my favorite gay catholic anti-torture pro-Obama (probama?) conservative blogger, I came across this video of Barney Frank on the floor of the House of Representatives. Frank, who I briefly interviewed once, is pointing out what a bunch of...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 11, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’ve never read as much by Ellen Willis, who died last year at the age of 64, as I’ve wanted to, probably because she’s never really caught the zeitgeist in the last 10 years (i.e. my time as a semi-serious reader of criticism) to the point where I...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 12, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I just learned that Norman Mailer died, which is sad, sort of, although there’s something about Mailer that militates against too much sadness. He’s more of an Irish wake kind of guy, too much of a lovable asshole, for too long, for me to feel as though he...