by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 30, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I am, I fear, too small a fry in the publishing world to lure Roger Kimball, the co-editor and co-publisher of the highbrow conservative journal The New Criterion, into a catfight, but just in case he’s listening, I want him to know that I find his writing voice...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 31, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Okay, so I’ve been forced to watch this ad about a zillion times during sports events lately. Thing is, while it’s not funny to me any more, it still doesn’t bother me almost as much as the guys-being-crushed-by-giant-beercans-for-not-being-macho ads...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 1, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
In Jamie’s very tendentious post about commercials that make fun of men, he accuses me, more or less, of sharing a critique, with the Men’s Rights Advocates, of a certain type of man-as-doofus commercial. He writes: I guess when it comes right down to it,...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 1, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
This is only MAID-related insofar as Matt Damon is, I’m pretty sure, worth of the Mantheon, though Jamie and I need to talk it over at our annual Masculinity and its Discontents borscht belt retreat up in the Catskills before we install him formally. Anyway,...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 5, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
MAID doesn’t detour often into electoral politics, but I thought I’d detour, on this Friday preceding Super Tuesday, to offer my personal endorsement of Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination. I could offer up a bushel of reasons to prefer Obama over...