by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 29, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’m totally fascinated with the clothes men wear, with what we say with our clothes, consciously and (mostly) unconsciously, about how we’d like to be seen in the world. Today, for instance, I’m wearing the following, from the feet up: Bright blue...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 1, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
In response to my last post, Tom Devine, the Valley’s premiere gay ex-crack addicted libertarian yippie blogger, said this, about fashion: I have a hippie sensibility towards fashion, meaning I don’t get it and never did. There’s no right or wrong to...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 3, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Speaking of men and clothes (as we’ve been doing the last few days), I’ve been enjoying some of the work done by "Izzy" at Manolo for the Men, a blog about men and fashion that’s a spin-off from the granddaddy of all fashion blogs,...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 6, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Sadly, this was the only Slazenger Raw ad I could find. The one I wanted to show you I’ve only seen once: it features a leather-clad babe at the country-club snack bar, some biker dudes, and an unassuming, kind of preppy and/but hot young man who goes out and...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 6, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I have a long Clinton/Obama post in the works, musing on the complicated gender dynamics of the campaign, which will culminate in a recent photo of Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, with his arm around the waist of Jessica Grogan, wife of me,...