I finally got it together to publish my collection of stories and essays, Unethical Sluts. You can buy it for the ridiculously low price of £1.07 at Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unethical-Sluts-ebook/dp/B005ZU10HW From the blurb: ‘Short stories and essays from the sidelines of pornography’ 12 stories and essays exploring the horny, the comic, and the macabre aspects of [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Unethical Sluts – My Book Available On Amazon Now!
Posted: October 31, 2011 in WritingTags: Unethical SAluts, writing
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Foucault’s Daughter and Zizek Press
Posted: October 27, 2011 in Uncategorized, Writing, Zizek PressTags: Foucaul'ts Daughter, writing, Zizek Press
Foucault’s Daughter was lucky enough to find a home at the wonderful, surreal and challenging house of Zizek Press, a while ago now. And she is settling in just fine. Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist, maybe one of the last remaining examples of that rare and ancient species. Zizek Press though, [...]
Miss Representation? How feminism misrepresents ‘objectification’
Posted: October 25, 2011 in Feminism, UncategorizedTags: feminism, metrosexuality, Miss Representation, objectification
‘Miss Representation is a new documentary about the relationship between the representation of women in the media and political office’ http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/10/20/socimages-contributor-caroline-heldman-in-the-new-documentary-miss-representation/ The trailer, which includes some ‘expert’ women talking to camera and some young women in group interview situations, as well as some clips from news programming, is very clear in its message. These quotes [...]
No, Seriously, What About The Men?
Posted: October 20, 2011 in Feminism, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, MasculinitiesTags: feminism, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, men, misandry, Tom Martin
http://goodmenproject.com/gender-sexuality/no-seriously-what-about-the-men/comment-page-1/#comment-58222 My latest article at Good Men Project is entitled: No, Seriously, What About The Men? This is how it begins: ‘Tom Martin is becoming quite well known in the feminist and anti-feminist blogosphere. He has taken the unprecedented action of suing a Gender Studies department—the renowned LSE Gender Institute in London, UK—for discrimination against men. [...]
Miss Whiplash and ManBoobz – The Mystery of the Male Feminist
Posted: October 18, 2011 in Feminism, MasculinitiesTags: feminism, male feminists, miss whiplash
Photo from: http://rachelrabbitwhite.com/occupy-slutwalk-a-tale-of-two-protests/#comments ‘THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE’ – the words are scrawled on this ‘male feminist’ s dare I say it rather skinny, but showing a bit of belly, very pale torso. And of course he sports a fagly beard. But what do ‘male feminists’ look like? Who are they? And why [...]
Don’t Die On Me, Buddy!
Posted: October 16, 2011 in Identity, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, MasculinitiesTags: Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Tim Hetherington
This GMP article about the late Tim Hetherington, photojournalist (who died covering the recent civil war in Libya), reminded me of a chapter in Mark Simpson’s Male Impersonators. http://goodmenproject.com/arts/tim-hetherington-photojournalist-giant/ I have shared this before but I am returning to it now. The caption at the top of the photo above reads: ‘The soldiers wrestle together, [...]
Fag UP! America
Posted: October 14, 2011 in Fag Up!, Mark Simpson, Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: America, Fag UP! Mark Simpson, masculinities
Mark Simpson is fighting the good fight against machismo and mendacious marketing, and calling once again, for America to Fag UP! You know the drill by now. His idea was to take all those ‘manly strap-ons’ used to sell products to men whilst reassuring them of their red-blooded (heterosexual) masculinity like manbags and manscara and [...]
The Curse Of The Green-Eyed Monster
Posted: October 13, 2011 in WritingTags: Betty Herbert, Jealousy, writing
I normally can’t bear writing advice, except for the only thing I have ever listened to from a writer whose name I forget: If you want to be a good writer, write. I have a book called ‘A Novel IN A Year’ that remains barely opened, and yet I managed to complete a (short) novel [...]
The Metrosexual Elephant In The Room
Posted: October 11, 2011 in Football, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Masculinities, metrosexualityTags: Football, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, metrosexuality, Tom Cleverley
This comment by arctic jay, under my last post about Strictly Come Dancing, was so good I am reposting it here. Ajay was responding to a feminist blogpost about the X factor, which suggested women are much more ‘objectified’ on TV shows and in culture in general, than men. He said: ‘How can anyone deny [...]
Big Tits! What Strictly Come Dancing Is Really About
Posted: October 9, 2011 in Feminism, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Masculinities, metrosexualityTags: Big Tits, Male Impersonators, metrosexuality, strictly come dancing
I recently pointed out how the popular UK TV show, Strictly Come Dancing, has been an excuse for some feminist journalists to spout a whole load of misandry. Judith Woods for example claimed the programme is ‘sexist’ because it shows men in dominant, leading positions and women as submissive followers. When really, according to her, [...]
