I Don’t Think Your Dad’s Ready (for the homoerotics of Arnie)

Someone on twitter this week was talking about how she tried to explain to her Dad the ‘homoerotic subtexts’ in the 1980s Hollywood film, The Lost Boys. But he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) see it, and thought it was just a movie about vampires. This led me to introduce her to the work of Mark MetroDad Simpson. [...]

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 [...]

Mark Simpson’s Body Talk

This is the latest post from www.marksimpson.com It relates to my post on ‘Masculinity isn’t good – it’s great!’ in some ways. http://quietgirlriot.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/masculinity-isnt-good-its-grrreat/ It doesn’t reference my ace piece about Geordie Shore, a programme that he hasn’t written about hardly at all: http://quietgirlriot.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/death-on-the-tyne/ But it  is an interesting exploration of the wonderful world of men’s body image [...]

Masculinity Isn’t Good It’s Grrreat!

Toward the end of last year, I read an article in the UK newspaper, The Guardian, entitled ‘The Culture of Masculinity Costs All Too Much To Ignore’. But the url left clues as to a draft title which was even more damning: ‘Dangerous Masculinity Everyone Risk’. In the piece, two senior feminist academics basically blamed men [...]

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. [...]

Beautiful – In Defence of Shane Warne’s Metrosexual ‘Male Beauty’

http://www.tntmagazine.com/tnt-today/archive/2011/09/05/shane-warne-has-his-own-beauty-products-says-liz-hurley.aspx News just in: ‘Liz Hurley has revealed that her boyfriend Shane Warne uses women’s beauty products.  In an interview with Easy Living magazine, Hurley said that the newly metrosexual Warne doesn’t just borrow her beauty products anymore – he has his own. “He has his own set now. He uses the girls’ ones – [...]

Failed Impersonators

I don’t know what to make of this ‘changed man’ bikini. It actually does my head in. http://www.koalaswim.com/ I saw this ‘mangina’ swimsuit on Jezebel the feminist site but I am not linking to the article, as I hate Jezebel. One thing that did spring to mind is how this style of bikini imitates that [...]

Model Metrosexual

http://nymag.com/fashion/11/fall/andrej-pejic/ This NY Times Magazine article descripes Andre Pejic as ‘the prettiest boy in the world’. He is undoubtedly very pretty. But aren’t a lot of boys these days? The real focus of the article is on how an openly cross-dressing androgynous man has been able to secure high profile modelling work for both men [...]

On The Edge Of Gender

Janelle Monae  walks a gender tightrope, and dammit, girl, you know she never falls off! Elise Moore has included Monae in her exploration of women artists as ‘witch’ figures.  But I place Monae much more in a  ‘masculine’ androgynous tradition, including Little Richard, James Brown,various incarnations of Michael Jackson, and sometimes a spunkier, sharper, less [...]