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One Porn-ation, Under God, with liberty and gangbangs for all

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Dec 15, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I just finished reading Robert Jensen’s Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, which Jamie wrote about earlier this week, and man, what a viscerally unpleasant thing to read. Not because it’s a bad book—it’s pretty good, in its...

Don't think, just buy her more rocks!

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Dec 17, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

While I am less than sympathetic with the men’s advocacy fellow whom Dan recently wrote of, and his complaint about the Pizza Hut ad (among others) that makes Dad look like a dope, I am recently finding myself taking umbrage at the way men are portrayed in every...

Jerking the gherkin with the thought police in attendance

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Dec 19, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

The bulk of Robert Jensen’s Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, which Jamie and I have been writing about for the last week or so, is devoted to describing the nature of contemporary pornography in such a descriptive, unsparing, unrelenting way...

Women need men sometimes

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

The Onion had a nice piece in a recent issue on the real problem with the feminist movement — it’s lack of manly know-how and access to the old boys’ club: WASHINGTON—After decades spent battling gender discrimination and inequality in the...

“Knocked Up” Reconsidered in light of feminist qualms

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Dec 31, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Over at Slate, Meghan O’Rourke (with whom, incidentally, I took about half a semester of intermediate photography in college before I dropped out of the class because I felt like I was out of my league) has an interesting essay on the movie Knocked Up, arguing...
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