http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/aug/26/jesus-macho-makeover The Guardian reports on a ‘very muscular brand of Christianity’ and tells us that Jesus has had a ‘macho makeover’. ‘When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks? If so, think again. After 2,000 years, the Messiah is getting a makeover. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘machismo’
Personal Jesus
Posted: August 29, 2011 in Desire, Fag Up!, Masculinities, metrosexualityTags: Jesus, machismo, metrosexuality
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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 [...]
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, [...]
