Teenage Kicks: QRG At The Good Men Project

I was delighted to get the chance recently to edit a theme at the Good Men Project website. I chose teenage kicks  and sought out articles by and about young men and teenagers.  These are the ones which have been published: Bully : Surviving School by Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy): http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/bully-surviving-school/comment-page-1/#comment-163054 Advice for parents of teens by [...]

Rainbow-Coloured Obama?

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tearful-andrew-sullivan-praises-obama-father-figure-saying-im-fully-a-part-of-this-family/ You can’t have failed to have heard the news. Obama, who originally took a firm stance against gay marriage, preferring the traditional view that marriage is between a man and a woman, has done a U-turn. His recent statement in favour of equal marriage has sent teh gayz into spasms of emotion similar to [...]

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. [...]

We’re All Queer In The End: Review of The Declining Significance Of Homophobia

This is another version of my review of  Mark McCormack s new book on Declining Homophobia. ——————————————– The Declining Significance of Homophobia, by Mark McCormack, is, according to its author, a ‘good news story’. The good news being that homophobia amongst young people is on the wane. His research with mainly young men students in three English [...]

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, [...]

MMA: Gay For Pay

Back in 2008 Mark Simpson asked a simple question: how gay is MMA? And the simple answer was: VERY! His steamy description of a live fight he attended sounded (deliberately of course) like a review of the latest homo porno: ‘Mac Danzig is still on his back; his sweaty, pumped, almost translu­cently white torso is flushed 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 [...]

OBJECTIFY THIS

I had the beginnings of a twitter argument last night, on a subject that is dear to my heart: Objectification. @BigdaddyKeltik who is a trans man and a feminist said: * ‘Objectifying women = rape culture’. * @MILLIMETREMUSIC not puritans, feminists. Objectifying women = rape culture.— Keltik ಠ_ಠ (@BigDaddyKeltik) February 07, 2012 * I find [...]

The Old Media Metro-Phobia

In a very recent article in the UK paper, The Telegraph, we were told that David Miliband has been railing at the Labour Party. His brother continues to bumble and fumble his way through running the opposition, whilst David follows in his true Big Brother, Tony Blair’s footsteps, and makes oodles of cash for doing not [...]