Stephen Fry did an interview with ‘gay’ pop culture magazine Attitude recently (Isn’t Attitude a brilliant title for a gay magazine?). I thought it might ruffle the feathers and rattle the tea cups of middle England a little. But I didn’t think quite why. His comments about sexuality were re-enacted in that wonderful post-modern way [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls #4 Cutting
Posted: October 31, 2010 in Foucault, Scribbling On Foucault's Walls, Uncategorized, WritingTags: Scribbling on Foucault's walls
‘Knowledge is not for knowing; knowledge is for cutting’ Michel Foucault The Foucault Reader It is a hot night in Paris. The city is never totally quiet. She lies in bed with just a sheet draped over her, listening to the sounds of cars in the distance, and the occasional group of late-night revellers. What [...]
Carrie Bradshaw is Dead. Long Live Metro-Man.
Posted: October 30, 2010 in Blogging, Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: identity, metrosexuality, sex in the city
I just found out about Fuck Yeah Menswear via an article in Slate I don’t think this makes me ‘on point’, but it means I have at least some tiny comprehension of who, or what is. Go look. It is hilarious and terrifying at the same time. My conclusion is: women’s fashion has died, along [...]
I have made a commitment to join the nation’s scribblers in November’s National Novel Writing Month: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ The idea is you write a whole novel in a month. This sounds crazy to me. But I am going to do it. I have already started and though it sounds impossible, I do like the thought of actually [...]
Barbie Boys
Posted: October 28, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: advertising, masculinities, metrosexuality
I agree, it is hard to look like Ken. But would any man want to? UPDATE: It looks like Matthew McConaughey wants to look like Ken! or at least the ad-people at D and G want him to. Or they want men to want to look like McConaughey looking like Ken! Anyway. Click this link [...]
A brief note from your resident Riot Grrl: THANK YOU to everyone who reads this blog, whether you comment on the posts or not. THiS is an extension of, part of ME! It’ s not just words and pixels on a screen. I AM insipired by and touched by everyone who passes this way. Even [...]
This rather evocative image is taken from an article linked to on Laura Augustin’s site: http://www.lauraagustin.com/sex-on-sunday-5 These young men work in Prague’s blossoming gay porn sector, but as they put it quite poetically, they are straight young men; they are only Gay For Pay. I love how relaxed they look, how the one lad’s knee [...]
The Metrosexual Murderer Strikes Again…
Posted: October 26, 2010 in metrosexuality, UncategorizedTags: metrosexual murderer
…and this time he puts the knife into women’s upper hand, when it comes to judging men by their dress-sense. According to a (woman) journalist in New York, All Dudes Learned How To Dress And It Sucks !!! Here she explains why the newfound sartorial know-how of New York Men is a blessing and a [...]
Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls #5 Post/Modern
Posted: October 26, 2010 in Foucault, Uncategorized, WritingTags: Foucault, Scribbling on Foucault's walls, writing
Nothing is fundamental. That is what is so interesting about the analysis of society. That is why nothing irritates me as much as these inquiries – which are by definition meptaphysical – on the foundations of power in a society or the self-institution of a society, etc. These are not fundamental phenomena. There are [...]
Sometimes seeing two pieces of information next to each other, or one immediately followed by the next is enough to send bolts of lightning of cognition through your brain. This happened to me today. First I read this post by Broken Bottle Boy, the journalist Mic Wright, about a very interesting discussion he had with [...]
