by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 29, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I liked this paragraph from James Wolcott’s recent review essay, of books about "The Mommy Wars," in The New Republic: Whatever choice a woman makes, or has foisted upon her by necessity and circumstance, ambivalence digs in its spikes. Women–to...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 29, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Okay, we are NOT not not going to spend a great deal of time talking about sports and jocks and issues relating to sports that only tangentially touch our touchstone, but I’ve been thinking about this whole Terrell Owens thing and I smell many day-old fishies:...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 3, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I have been a believer-in- and goer-to- therapy on and off for, oh, fifteen years or so. I think of it as one of my most girly and metro- aspects of my man-self (along with yoga and my utter inability to carpent.) I have also been privileged to have had health...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 3, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Ah, therapy. It was inevitable that enlightened, sensitive souls such as we would arrive at the couch, and probably sooner rather than later. I’ve been in the Big T for about nine months now. My doctor’s name is Dr. Dickey I don’t think...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 7, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Last bits on jocks and shrinks, for now. Alex Rodriquez is a New York Yankees baseball star (and man) who’s constantly bashed by the New York press, sports talk radio bozos and their bozo callers, especially during his current “off” year (a year...