Mark Simpson is fighting the good fight against machismo and mendacious marketing, and calling once again, for America to Fag UP! You know the drill by now. His idea was to take all those ‘manly strap-ons’ used to sell products to men whilst reassuring them of their red-blooded (heterosexual) masculinity like manbags and manscara and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘America’
Fag UP! America
Posted: October 14, 2011 in Fag Up!, Mark Simpson, Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: America, Fag UP! Mark Simpson, masculinities
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America’s Big Gay Musical
Posted: May 4, 2011 in Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: America, Bin Laden, machismo, Mark Simpson
When I saw a very similar shot of these three US Marines, celebrating Osama Bin Laden’s death, in the Sunday Times newspaper, I thought it was a scene from a Gay Musical on (or off) Broadway. But no, it is just another scene in America’s Big Gay Musical of Machismo. Mark Simpson, who has written [...]
Fagifesto
Posted: February 28, 2011 in Fag Up!, Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: advertising, America, Fag Up, masculinities
http://us.dockers.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=11173216 This is the faggiest thing I have seen in a long while, and believe me I have been looking at some VERY faggy things lately- in particular as part of Mark Simpson’s current ingenius project, ‘Fag Up!’* ‘But today, there are questions our genderless society has no answers for’… if only we were living [...]
Fag Up! Mark Simpson Outs America’s Inner Fag
Posted: February 24, 2011 in Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: advertising, America, machismo, manliness, Mark Simpson
Our favourite Renaissance Fag has come up with a brand new project: to out America’s inner fag. Mr Simpson has captured my anti-macho fag imagination once more with this delightfully faggy idea: ‘Fear of The Fag Within still dominates most American media discourse about masculinity. It’s what prompted the backlash against metrosexuality in the mid-Noughties, [...]
