What Makes A Man, A MAN?

What makes a man a man? It is a question that sounds simple but is actually not at all. And the more I ask it the more I come to the conclusion that ‘a man’, like ‘a woman’ is really only a way of thinking about gender. Those people I have met and loved or hated or felt indifferent to, [...]

Respect The Cock, But Not Too Much

HELP!! I am in danger of turning the name of this blog into Dan Savage Is Annoying ! I am barely joking. There is something about his particular unique melange of machismo, uber-masculinism, GAY fundamentalism, American middle class liberal imperialist superiority, a hint, a subliminal hint of hatred of men (men who are not Dan [...]

Savage Dan #2 Respect The Cock

Following my announcement to the world that Dan Savage Is Annoying : http://quietgirlriot.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/savage-heart/ I have one more thing to add. Dan Savage Is Really Annoying After his outburst at Garrison Keillor for his comments on The Gays,  Garrison was bullied into an apology and Savage responded to it with these immortal lines: ‘Excuse me… what? I’m pretty [...]

Macho Fags

Ah, machismo. It is such a pretty word, for such an ugly thing. Imagine it, spoken softly in a lilting Italian brogue, with a sigh, by a devestatingly beautiful, pensive woman. Look at her sat, frowning on the steps of her villa, surrounded by the most picturesque countryside in the world, pondering the sadness of [...]