Real Men Get Raped

http://www.queerty.com/in-your-face-ad-addresses-issue-of-male-rape-and-sexual-abuse-20120208/ On seeing this promo poster for a rape survivors campaign, my initial reaction was: Fag UP! But that seems to be my reaction to everything to do with masculinity these days. So I thought I’d put this one to you, dear QRG readers, and ask you what you think of the ‘real men get raped’ [...]

An Online Magazine…For Fags?

Unilad, a website that became notorious this week and has now been taken down. I don’t know who spotted it first, but it quickly entered the social network sphere via women who were outraged by it. I didn’t get to see a great deal of it before it was taken down after a deluge of [...]

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 [...]

Real Fags Join The Priesthood?

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/12/20/reasserting-the-priesthood-as-masculine/ The frankly annoyingly feminist Sociological Images referred to a recruitment video for the priesthood featured at NYPriest website. The gender studies academics at S.I. said: ‘Usually, a male-dominated occupation wouldn’t be in need of having its masculinized character stressed so openly. However, the child sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in the U.S. [...]

Pansy Violet: Manly Paint Colours and the Fag Within

Sociological Images have found a marketing campaign by a household decorating company, which aims to attract men to more ‘girly’ colours, by giving them ‘manly’ names. So this ‘plum escape’ becomes ‘sucker punch’ and ‘bone white’ becomes ‘beer foam’. The saleswoman in the video shows men and women the same colours but with the contrasting ‘masculine’ [...]

All A Man Is

http://groomingguru.co.uk/2011/09/28/aramis-back-to-the-future-with-all-a-man-is-campaign/ According to Grooming Guru, Aramis make wonderful ‘ferociously masculine’ fragrances. Ferociously masculine? You mean, like a LION? Remember, kids, some of the most ferocious beasts in our world are, actually female. But you know how I feel about gay grooming so let’s move swiftly on… GG also makes an interesting point about the metrosexualisation [...]

‘Manfringe?’ No Thanks. ‘Manly’ Grooming Gets On My Tits

Jim Chapman, ( @j1mmyb0bba on twitter) is a youtube phenomenon. His twitter profile tells us: ‘I’m on youtube! I run one of the biggest men’s grooming channels (and a website) in the whole wide world. Thank you to everyone who makes it so…’ From watching his video diaries I can see why he is so [...]