I was thinking what it would be like if I had to be in the frame. Centre stage. For whatever reason. And I didn’t like the feeling I got, somewhere between a shiver and a cowering, and a blush of shame. Then I remembered how one of the readers on here mentioned a while back, [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Metrosexy – OUT NOW!
Posted: May 28, 2011 in Mark Simpson, Masculinities, metrosexuality, MetrosexyTags: Mark Simpson, Metrosexy
I am delighted to announce the publication of an eagerly-awaited (by me) e-book by my favourite current writer on gender, Mark Simpson. I don’t know where my head would be without his work. Maybe still somewhere in the dark crevaces of feminism. I can’t say it is all his fault. But I know that my [...]
If this man is a soldier I will eat my DVD Box Set of Dad’s Army. http://metrosexy.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/metrosexy-out-now/
Camille Paglia tells it how it is. A sister in arms, when there are no sisters left. UPDATE: I am pretty sure this is from an interview on a TV show in the early 1990s. That is the context.
I just posted I Wanna Be Adored by The Stone Roses, on Metrosexy, the promo-site for Mark Simpson’s forthcoming publication of the same name (Metrosexy, not ‘I wanna be adored’, though that would make a fitting subtitle). It is a Metrosexy Anthem all right. http://metrosexy.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/metrosexy-anthems-i-wanna-be-adored-stone-roses/ But, The Stone Roses for me are all about a [...]
Saint Genet, Saint Foucault, Saint Morrissey: Towards a Gay Fagiography #Foucaultsdaughter— Elly (@quietriot_girl) May 23, 2011 Freud Foucault Halperin Simpson – I've read your books. The 'male subject' you describe also applies to me. Am I a man or are you wrong?— Elly (@quietriot_girl) May 23, 2011 'Nothing produces longing like distance' – David Halperin. [...]
Without feminism to endorse it, I don’t always know how to justify my anger. If I am not angry with ‘men’ who or what am I angry with? Because sometimes I am still fucking angry. Maybe even more so, now I realise all that time I wasted, all those lies I bought, all those pages [...]
Tweeting To Suzanne Moore About Rape…
Posted: May 19, 2011 in Feminism, Gender Violence, UncategorizedDavid C and Ed M have got nothing on us. Claws at the ready, it’s a feminist/ex-feminist bitch fight: "As long as there is rape… there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. " Andrea Dworkin— suzanne moore (@thesuzannemoore) May 18, 2011 @thesuzannemoore yes and thanks to Dworkin, feminism [...]
