Oh, Cynthia!

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/01/30/Cynthia_Nixon_Being_Bisexual_Is_Not_a_Choice/ Cynthia Nixon, who I last week defended for stating her sexuality is her ‘choice’, has gone back on her word. After a huge amount of hostility and pressure from gay activists and gay media outlets I might add. Her revised statement reads as follows:   “My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my [...]

Invisible Men: Tom Martin’s LSE Gender Studies Case

  Remember Tom Martin who is suing the LSE Gender Institute for discrimination against men? Here is an update about his case: ‘Tom Martin’s sex discrimination lawsuit against Europe’s largest gender studies department at The London School of Economics (LSE) has been delayed, a hearing now rescheduled for March 13th. Tom has given an interview for a programme on satellite [...]

Metrosexy PVC On Ice

The Daily Mail got a bit hot under the collar today as Jorgie Porter (who?) performed her dancing on ice routine in a ‘racy PVC leather outfit’. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2093592/Dancing-On-Ice-Jorgie-Porter-performs-racy-PVC-leather-outfit.html But the DM didn’t mention that her partner, a buff metrosexy man, also performed in a ‘racy PVC leather outfit’ and maybe even looked better than she [...]

Ms Whiplash Is Back!

http://www.salon.com/writer/tracy_clark_flory/ This article in Salon, focusing on rape in the ‘BDSM community’ really got on my nerves. I am going to write a proper post on it but first I thought I’d put it here. If any of you have any observations or thoughts then leave a comment and I can incorporate your ideas into [...]

Letter From An Alien: All You Need Is Me

I thought I had read all Mark Simpson’s blog, and heard all Morrissey’s songs, but this one passed me by till now. All You Need Is Me. http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2007/10/17/all-you-need-is-me/ Apart from the fact Moz’s 2007 (?) performance on a chat show confirms my belief he has become a ‘psychotic lounge singer’ I couldn’t help but smile [...]

In Defence Of…Pink Boys

In a recent (UK) Times article, Robert Crampton wheeled out some metro-phobia, transphobia and general sexism that needed commenting on. Crampton’s cranky piece questioned the decision by a UK couple to raise their child in a ‘gender neutral’ way. He wrote: ‘I’m struggling to work out quite what Beck Laxton and her partner Kieran Cooper [...]

Unnatural Selection?

A recent New York Times interview with Sex In The City star Cynthia Nixon, has caused a bit of a furore amongst mainly American gays. I first read about the story in Queerty, which is itself a VERY gay website. But I appreciated them running  it, and quoting Nixon at length and opening up the discussion to the [...]

Metrosexy Soldiers: Again!

Remember the LMFAO ‘Sexy and I Know It?’ hit of 2011? I have seen a few amateur videos of metrosexy young lads re-enacting it. So it was only a matter of time before the armed forces got in on the act. Why should they miss out on all the fun? Actually this rather bitter Guardian [...]

Write Less, Listen More

Write Less, Listen More is a piece of advice given by Megan Morgenson, to people who write about sex work without having much or any experience of actually doing it. Her post here is really worth a read: http://meganmorgenson.blogspot.com/2012/01/frustration-of-non-sex-workers-wanting.html?spref=tw It was in response to a piece at Freedom In A Puritan Age here: http://www.freedominapuritanage.co.uk/?p=281&cpage=1#comment-560 The [...]

Talking To Mark Simpson (To Myself) About ‘Retrosexual’

In a recent interview for an Italian magazine, Mark Simpson mentioned some old friends of his – ‘hummersexuals’. He said: ‘Hummersexuals are guys who over-emphasise their masculinity with ‘manly’ accessories in a way that makes you wonder what they’re covering up. Retrosexuals are merely pre-metrosexual.’ This is consistent with what he wrote about Hummersexuals, back in [...]