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. [...]

A Spot Of Bother – A Critique of a Sex Research Critique

According to Dr Petra Boynton, academic and ‘sexologist’, a recent study about the elusive g-spot (in women) is rubbish. This rubbish research has been reported in the media as truth. So she has critiqued the media reporting, based on her own knowledge of sex research and how it gets communicated to the public. So far so [...]

The Possibility Of Independent Thinking

‘The entire gay male community seems at times to be colluding against the possibility of independent thinking. The gay rights movement, too often, is focused on theatrics rather than on discourse; we want to be entertained and flattered, not criticised’. – John Weir in Anti Gay (1996 ed. Mark Simpson). I was delighted to have [...]

Letter From An Alien: Nothing But Trouble

That’s another fine mess you got me into, Stanley! But it was worth it. Because: Male Impersonators,  Metrosexy and Anti Gay. ‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.’  -  Oscar Wilde

A Note About Metrosexy, @marksimpsonist ‘s Tour de Force

Any of you who have been reading QRG for any length of time, will know that I helped and supported Mark Simpson publish his 2011 Book, Metrosexy. And that I continue to refer to it, review it and promote it to this day. Why wouldn’t I? It is bloody marvellous. But Simpson has removed some of [...]

Metrosexy Hegemony

I have critiqued the feminist concept of hegemonic masculinity before. The idea that there is a ‘masculine ideal’ that some men achieve and exploit, and others are oppressed by does not work for me. Also if there is a ‘hegemonic masculinity’ why is there not a ‘hegemonic femininity’. The concept relies on the idea that patriarchy exists, [...]

To Foucault, A Daughter: Review By Mark Simpson

This is a review by Mark Simpson of my novella Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. He took it down from his blog in a fit of pique so I am putting it here for safekeeping. And because, neither Metrodaddy nor anyone else, can erase the past. ——————————————— Reg­u­lar vis­i­tors to this blog will be famil­iar with [...]

What Do Men Want? #2 Reference to: @marksimpsonist

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2105472/Crying-films-cuddling-sofa-enjoying-bubble-baths-Its-end-macho-man-era-women-prefer-way.html Lately I have noticed the Daily Mail becoming a bit more pro-metrosexual than in previous years, and MUCH less metro-phobic than most other papers including the ‘liberal’ broadsheet, The Guardian. So I was not surprised to read an upbeat DM article this week, about how men are changing and becoming ‘softer’ and more open [...]

The Naked Muse

Coming up in London this week is an exhibition called The Naked Muse.  Pictures of naked men are usually of interest to me, so I thought I’d find out a bit more about it. Full details of the exhibition, featuring black and white photos of men poets in the nuddy, and the calendar to go [...]

A Note About Mark Simpson’s Blog @marksimpsonist

As people know Mark Simpson and I fell out a while back. Since then he has blocked me on facebook, removed my blogs from his blogroll, etc. Now he has banned me from viewing his blog altogether. I use a proxy server and can access his blog there. But any links to his blog from [...]