What goes down when the towel goes up at male strip clubs?
Magic Mike: Something Much Worse than the Objectification of Men
July 7, 2012 By 227 Comments
Joanna Schroeder is amazed at the way Magic Mike manages to damage both masculinity and the image of female sexuality in one 110-minute sausage fest.
The Knight/Beast Dichotomy
April 2, 2012 By 17 Comments
Just as women are trapped by the stereotypes of the virgin/whore dichotomy, so do good guy/bad guy stereotypes trap men. Ozy Frantz breaks down how these cultural images work.
The Knight/Beast Dichotomy
March 26, 2012 By 40 Comments
Trigger warning for rape. A fascinating article at Sociology in Focus describes the male equivalent of the virgin/whore dichotomy: the protector/rapist dichotomy. Women in our society get classified as either virgins or whores– that is, as pure and perfect wife-and-mother-material Good Girls in sweaters, or slutty and “crazy” drinking-and-screwing-and-breaking-hearts Bad Girls in microminis. Similarly, men [...]
“Straight men learned from gay men that physically affectionate, emotionally intimate friendships are not unmanly.”
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