by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Aug 28, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
This kind of thing happens all the time to us at the Rendezvous, but last night’s example was especially telling and infuriating. I was talking to a fellow at the bar, a first-time customer, who asked if I own the place. I explained that I did, with three...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 24, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
This year old clip (from 9/19/07) of San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders reversing his anti-gay-marriage stance has going viral since Prop. 8 passed. Many of my friends were muchly and mushily moved by it. Anja was like, “Eh.” And while I wasn’t quite that...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 28, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Here's Barack’s entire, original “Joe” the “Plumber” conversation. Just for the complete background. Joe seemed pretty charmed at the time – it must kill the Foxnews-ers to watch such a gracious, smart, Ivy Educated,...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 25, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
That's the thing that baffles me about the brouhaha about the above NY Post cartoon: How couldit not be construed as anything but a representation of the president as a chimp, gunned down by two white cops to boot. I mean, people are actually debating the issue....
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 5, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Last week, as beach volleyball took center stage at the Olympics as we see it on American TV – in large part because two American women are the world’s best at the sport – controversy erupted over the fact that women in the game wear bikinis while...