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. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Male Impersonators’
I Don’t Think Your Dad’s Ready (for the homoerotics of Arnie)
Posted: May 5, 2012 in androgyny, Desire, Fag Up!, Freud, Identity, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Masculinities, metrosexuality, UncategorizedTags: Arnie, Big Tits, homoerotics, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, metrosexuality, muscle
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Letter From An Alien: Nothing But Trouble
Posted: March 8, 2012 in Blogging, Freedom of Speech, Letters From An Alien, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Metrosexy, Reading, WritingTags: Anti Gay, laurel and Hardy, Letters From An Alien, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Metrosexy. Oscar Wilde
That’s another fine mess you got me into, Stanley! But it was worth it. Because: Male Impersonators, Metrosexy and Anti Gay. ‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.’ - Oscar Wilde
The Death Of Childhood
Posted: February 17, 2012 in Desire, Freud, IdentityTags: childhood, identity, Law and Sexuality, Male Impersonators, Sexuality
http://lawandsexuality.blogspot.com/2012/02/sexy-boy-and-treasure-island-media.html Law and Sexuality Blog has an interesting article about a M/m porn company, TIM which has been marketing its wares with images of young boys. You can read the whole article here. In it Chris, an academic, writes: ‘there is the less radical, but perhaps no less controversial idea that children can be sexual beings. [...]
Mark Simpson Describes Feminism To Suzanne Moore
Posted: February 5, 2012 in Feminism, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, misandry, UncategorizedTags: Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, suzanne moore
@suzanne_moore No. Not at all. Very nostalgic… and ludicrously, imperially phallic: '… once erect British penis…'— Mark Simpson (@marksimpsonist) February 05, 2012 I found this funny because Suzanne Moore is bemoaning how Stewart Lee is not ‘progressive’ in his views on Scottish independence. Mark Simpson seems to agree, quoting Lee’s article. But he might as [...]
Invisible Men: Tom Martin’s LSE Gender Studies Case
Posted: January 31, 2012 in Feminism, Freedom of Speech, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, MasculinitiesTags: feminism, gender studies, LSE, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Tom Martin
Remember Tom Martin who is suing the LSE Gender Institute for discrimination against men? Here is an update about his case: ‘Tom Martin’s sex discrimination lawsuit against Europe’s largest gender studies department at The London School of Economics (LSE) has been delayed, a hearing now rescheduled for March 13th. Tom has given an interview for a programme on satellite [...]
Oh, Superman
Posted: January 16, 2012 in Male Impersonators, Masculinities, metrosexualityTags: Male Impersonators, Superman
I love the new metrosexy Superman costume, designed for the forthcoming film. I grew up with Superman films and it is interesting to see how the ‘look’ of our favourite superhero has developed over the years. There is a good analysis of the costume here: http://www.buzzfocus.com/2011/09/01/henry-cavill-superman-man-of-steel-costume-52-redesign-comparison/ In his book Male Impersonators Mark Simpson talks about [...]
Football Goes Gay: Again!
Posted: January 11, 2012 in Football, Identity, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Masculinities, metrosexualityTags: Football, gay, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, metrosexuality, Thierry Henri
‘Interest in men is permitted, indeed encouraged, but must always be expressed through the game’. (Simpson, 1994:72) The Guardian has reported the outpouring of love for the lovely Thierry Henri, on his triumphant return to Arsenal. Fans have described their ardour as ‘going gay for Henri’. The author, Paul Flynn, writes: ‘Maybe I was taking it too literally [...]
The Myth of Male Power
Posted: December 27, 2011 in Foucault, Male Impersonators, Masculinities, misandry, UncategorizedTags: feminism, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, The Myth of Male Power, Warren Farrell
I had an argument on twitter yesterday – call it a discussion- about gender and power and ‘oppression’. My position, that men do not have ‘more power’ than women, and that women are not ‘more oppressed’ than men, as a group, was laughed out of town. I was told that I was ignoring the ‘facts’ [...]
The Origins of Simpsonism: By The Metrosexy Messenger
Posted: December 17, 2011 in Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Masculinities, metrosexuality, MetrosexyTags: Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, masculinities, metrosexuality, Metrosexy
http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2011/12/15/male-impersonators-now-available-as-a-kindle-ebook/ Mark Simpson has just released his 1994 classic, Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity, on Amazon Kindle. Apart from it being a great book, and a major contribution to the literature of gender and masculinities, Male Impersonators is important because it includes the beginnings of Simpson’s theorising of metrosexuality. It represents his ‘original contribution to [...]
MetroDaddy Speaks! (About his latest Kindle publication)
Posted: December 15, 2011 in Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Masculinities, metrosexuality, MetrosexyTags: Freud, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, masculinities, Metrosexy
http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2011/12/15/male-impersonators-now-available-as-a-kindle-ebook/ ‘I deployed ‘metrosexual’ as journalistic shorthand for the freighted theory of M.I. Reading M.I. you may decide that the shorthand said rather more than the longhand. If Male Impersonators was the theory of metrosexuality,Metrosexy, my recent collection of metro journalism, documents the way metrosexuality went on to conquer the culture over the next seventeen years – [...]
