Don’t Tell Me What To Do!

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/helen-lewis-hasteley/2011/12/feminism-women-rights I read this article by Helen Lewis in New Statesman, feeling like I’d read it before, it was so familiar: ‘The battles that remain involve telling people — often, but not exclusively, men — that I don’t like things they like, and I wish they didn’t like them either. I’m sorry, I know that [...]

An Ode To www.marksimpson.com

www.marksimpson.com is by far my favourite blog, It helped me see the light of day, through the thickening fog Of feminist myths that I was brought up to think were right and true And it taught me about metrosexuals – those brilliant modern dudes. I read that website every day: it’s my go to guy [...]

Say Something

  Your silence is deafening… Fade-out fading / fade-out Painful ordeal in which the loved being appears to withdraw from all contact, without such enigmatic indifference even being directed against the amorous subject or pronounced to the advantage of anyone else, world or rival. – Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse   h/t @fennerpearson    

The Myth of Male Power

I had an argument on twitter yesterday – call it a discussion- about gender and power and ‘oppression’. My position, that men do not have ‘more power’ than women, and that women are not ‘more oppressed’ than men, as a group, was laughed out of town. I was told that I was ignoring the ‘facts’ [...]

Metrosexy Christmas

MERRY METROSEXY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE THANKS for making QRGHQ a vibrant hub of gender discussion and metrotastic observations. NOTE: I usually link up to Mark Simpson’s blog but it has a bug at the moment so I won’t. I don’t recommend clicking on links to his blog just now. I hope it recovers in time for [...]

Real Fags Join The Priesthood?

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/12/20/reasserting-the-priesthood-as-masculine/ The frankly annoyingly feminist Sociological Images referred to a recruitment video for the priesthood featured at NYPriest website. The gender studies academics at S.I. said: ‘Usually, a male-dominated occupation wouldn’t be in need of having its masculinized character stressed so openly. However, the child sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in the U.S. [...]

The Man Who Got Away

  NEWS JUST IN: Effective immediately, I have resigned from the Good Men Project. Details soon. Thanks to all for support.— Hugo Schwyzer (@hugoschwyzer) December 21, 2011   http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2011/12/21/why-i-resigned-from-the-good-men-project/

Man With A Pussy

Stuart Warwick has today released the video for his latest song: Man With A Pussy. Featuring the amazing David Hoyle it is a rare work of art amidst all the Christmas tat. The song, about a man, with transexual undertones, reminds me of a piece I featured on the Fauxmos blog ages ago: Today I Am by Monmouth. [...]

QRG Awards 2011 – Your Nominations Please!

http://quietgirlriot.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/blogpost-of-the-year-award/ Last year I did a QRG Blogpost of the year award, with two categories, beauty and truth. This year I am expanding the prestigious award to include the following prizes: Blogpost of the year (any subject/style) My nominees for bloggers (don’t know which posts yet) Rachel Rabbit White, Heresy Corner, Law and Sexuality, Mark [...]

Preaching To The Choir

I saw this lovely photo on the facebook wall of David McAlmont yesterday. It’s a ‘gay choir’ doing a Christmas concert. David was ‘the voice’ in the pop duo McAlmont and Butler quite a long time ago. I asked under the photo, though, how the men joining prove they are ‘gay’ to get in the choir. This [...]