Masculinity (15)

David F

Manliness and... Hot Sauce?

Does the spectacle of men enjoying crazy-hot peppers or million-Scoville hot sauces ever strike you as a bit disingenuous?  Like there's really another motive unrelated to making chicken wings tasty?  You may be on to something. A new study titled, Gender differences in the influence of…

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David F

How Drag is Different from Blackface

Mary Cheney saw the previews for RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7, and flipped out.  Although out as a lesbian herself, she can usually be found attacking LGBTQ communities to make political hay for those who trade on the Red base's homophobia.  She wrote, This is an…

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David F

Friendship by xkcd

alt-text: The only other Wikipedia vandalism that I would feel zero remorse about is editing the article on active US militia groups to replace "militia" with "fanclub". from here. go subscribe to this webcomic right freakin' now. if not, what's wrong with you?

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David F

Get Out of the Box

From the earliest age, boys are taught that there is a certain range of behaviors and feelings required of them if they will ever be considered men, and that straying beyond these borders is really not acceptable.  "Act like a man!"  "Real men don't cry!"…

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David F

A Defective Idea of Masculinity

Real Men Don't Eat Quiche is the title of a book that was published in 1982.  Subtitled, "A Guidebook to All that is Truly Masculine," it was a tongue-in-cheek1 look at some very real attitudes in America about masculinity and what we mean when we…

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