Lyrical Genius, Political Activist, Film/Video Pioneer, Husband, Father and of course Beastie Boy.
The Curious Case of Chris Birch
I highly recommend you check out Law and Sexuality is a blog by Chris Ashford, a reader in Law and Society, that “seeks to explore law and sexuality in a broad socio-legal framework” if that kind of thing interests you (for what my recommendation is worth anyway). He has an interesting post up about Chris Birch…
Dads Rock
Hat tip to Al Watts at Role/Reboot. So it seems that after 2 weeks of constant critique and polite disagreement Huggies have finally relented and changed that horrible dad ad of theirs from: “To prove Huggies diapers and wipes can handle anything, we put them to the toughest test imaginable: Dads, alone with their babies…”…
I HATE hating Valentine’s Day
I really don’t want to hate February 14th and it makes me angry that I do. It makes me angry, because ideally it should be a day where two or more people should be able to reaffirm their love for one another–not yet another way the advertising industry can guilt people (usually men) into buying…
My Thoughts on Choosing your Sexuality
In a recent interview for the New York Times, former Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon made some comments about her sexuality being a choice. This angered many in the gay community, who believe she is playing into the hands of the Christian right, even though she only said that it was a choice…
Interesting article by Meredith Borders on Women in Cinema.
Badass Digest (the thinking geek’s pop culture site) has a brilliant article up by the fantastic Meredith Borders called “Welcome the Woman Child” detailing Hollywood cinemas sudden fascination with portraying flawed, emotionally stunted women: she cites three recent examples of this trend, namely, Kristen Wiig in Bridesmaids, Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher, and Charlize Theron…
Exploring Misandry in Video Games: Part 2, Do I really have to play as this jerk?
(See told you I’d come back to this) Edit: Here’s part 1 if anyone is interested thank you to Tumbleweed in the comments for reminding me. I believe that characterisation is one of those pesky things modern gaming is still having trouble integrating into current generation games effectively. In the golden age it wasn’t…
The XY Movement is Awesome
Hat Tip to Mark Simpson Rapper DPhill Spanglish Man is a on a mission to blur the lines between genders and look good while doing it. He’s started what he likes to call the XY movement, I think it sounds fantastic but I’ll let him explain it himself. I’ve always been in awe of men/women who…
Say No to Grim and Gritty
Hat tip to Badass digest Hey kids you all remember Voltron, don’t you? The old TV show about 5 robot lions that merged into a giant robot and flew through space fighting monsters–cool, wasn’t it? Well, would you be interested in knowing that there’s now a fan-made film about it that you can see on the…
A Fantastic Critique of Hanna Rosin’s “The End of Men”
Following on from Noah’s link to Linda Holmes’ piece about how the new American network TV season is a flood of eye-searing misandry like How to be a Gentlemen, Man Up and Last Man Standing: Quiet Riot Girl gives her take on the situation, a masterful critique of one of the sources of all this nonsense, namely…
The Prissiness of Traditional Masculinity
Before I go on please let me say I have nothing against men who find the models of traditional masculinity to be the ones that work for them these are just some observations I’ve made from studying certain online sources most notably the site official man card – which I admit to becoming scarily addicted to over…
Young at Heart?
There’s no denying that we live in an extremely youth orientated culture; we’re saturated with it, from an early age we learn that to be young and a is best, but also that Men who attempt to hold onto their youth for too long end up being ridiculed. I suppose it has a lot to…
A cool article about Men and Androgyny
This article has some extracts from an interview with male model Andrej Pejic (the one that FHM charmingly referred to as “that thing”) Anyway he talks a lot about his gender identity — he seems really comfortable with who he is: “When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did…
Learning from feminism: Men and eating disorders
Trigger warning for discussion of eating disorders. While I will back up the assertions that my fellow contributors have made on this blog — that men can be every bit as visually appealing as women — I worry that we’re starting to objectify a certain ideal hotness with regards to men which is something that I think should…
How dare you make time for your children, Mr Deputy Prime Minister!
Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrat party and deputy Prime Minister for Great Britain, was in the news today because he is apparently “killing himself” trying to balance the stress of working such a demanding job with being a good father to his three sons by heading back from Whitehall to drive them to…
Pink is the colour
I loved, loved, LOVED Ozy’s post on Pink Nail Polish a while back (well, a while in Internet years, anyway) — so much, in fact, that it got me thinking about just how politicalized the colour has become.