http://us.dockers.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=11173216 This is the faggiest thing I have seen in a long while, and believe me I have been looking at some VERY faggy things lately- in particular as part of Mark Simpson’s current ingenius project, ‘Fag Up!’* ‘But today, there are questions our genderless society has no answers for’… if only we were living [...]
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Fagifesto
Posted: February 28, 2011 in Fag Up!, Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: advertising, America, Fag Up, masculinities
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QRG has been getting her knickers in a twist, a bit lately, about the concept of ‘trisexuality’. You know, those people who say ‘I’m trysexual- I will try anything, me!’ Haha. I know someone who did actually say that. And he also called himself ‘heteroflexible’. I refer to him, though, with the more monosyllabic phrase: [...]
Fag Up! Mark Simpson Outs America’s Inner Fag
Posted: February 24, 2011 in Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: advertising, America, machismo, manliness, Mark Simpson
Our favourite Renaissance Fag has come up with a brand new project: to out America’s inner fag. Mr Simpson has captured my anti-macho fag imagination once more with this delightfully faggy idea: ‘Fear of The Fag Within still dominates most American media discourse about masculinity. It’s what prompted the backlash against metrosexuality in the mid-Noughties, [...]
Apparently today is LadyPornDay. Like Ladies Day at Ascot, but without the hats. http://remittancegirl.com/discussions/ladypornday-and-the-male-gaze/ ‘Porn for women’ is a contentious subject. According to Suraya, the editor of Filament Magazine, the lack of porn that suits women’s tastes is to do with the fact porn is on the whole made by men. She encourages women photographers [...]
Letters from an Alien: Compartments (aka The Sermon from The Box)
Posted: February 22, 2011 in UncategorizedNOTE: CONTAINS PIETY AND CONFUSED LOGIC BASED ON (…) AND YET IT IS STILL TRUE. I have just started reading The Naked CIvil Servant it has broken my heart already. That kind of honesty is so rare. I can’t think of one person who is alive today who is that honest. I worked out why [...]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/19/suzanne-moore-femininity-cosmetic-surgery?commentpage=5#start-of-comments Suzanne Moore wants to know ‘how did we get here’?I will return to her question later. But first to explain what she means by ‘here’. According to Moore’s latest Graun column, ‘here’ is ‘this new aesthetic of femininity where everything is meant to look as fake as possible. Hair, nails, tan, teeth, tits. Sure, [...]
I would. Whip you. If I really had to. I have tried to imagine hurting someone, consensually, picking up some implement a crop or a whip or a cane. And even in my imagination I find it hard. My hand gets heavy and when I pull my arm up everything slows down and I can’t [...]
http://fucktheory.tumblr.com/post/3354397339/the-more-you-talk-about-how-radical-and ‘The More You Talk About How Radical And Non-Normative Your Sexual Practices Are, The More I Hear “I’m A Really Lousy Lay And I Use Pretension To Hide That Fact”’ In other words Mr Fuck Theory seems to be saying: Perversion does not exist, but if it did, I would not be one of [...]
‘She has brought them to her senses; they have laughed inside her laughter. Now she rallies her defences, for she fears that one will ask her for eternity. And she’s so busy being free.’ I first heard Joni Mitchell’s ‘Cactus Tree’ when I was eighteen. Her wistful, doleful song about a woman whose ‘heart is [...]
http://melissa.tumblr.com/post/3292593937 ‘How do two people establish intimacy on the Internet? Can you truly fall in love with someone you’ve never met? And is that love real? What do digital intimacy and love in the 21st century look like? Is this film about sexting?! xoxosms is a documentary about the TRUE love story of Gus and [...]
