by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 23, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I was walking behind this woman this morning on my way to work, and something about her — the nondescript way she dressed, the way she did her hair, and in particular the way she walked (a formless, loose-limbed kind of walk, with no sway or strut or swagger or...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 26, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I have to admit that as much as I’m (or I was) a big fan of the Geico Caveman’s early work, I never watched an episode of the TV series that spun from those ads. Lately, though, Geico has been airing some new ads that, to me anyway, lack all of the charm,...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jul 9, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
MAID stalwarts will recall that about a year ago I spent a couple of weeks scoring the first-year writing placement essays of incoming freshpeople at UMass. It is an often tedious but not altogether uninteresting process. Last year I noted that, from handwriting...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 6, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Readers, click here to meet or remember Sheila Bergerin photos and video. Perhaps my last post for this year, so good stuff to you all for New Year's Eve (sorry, shameless plug there) and in 2009.
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jul 15, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
(I thought I’d try to write an academic-sounding header just for fun – how’d I do? Did I use “tropes” even vaguely correctly?)About a year ago, Dan wrote a post about The Flight of The Conchords, as he deftly put it: “a Tenacious...