Teenage Kicks – Good Men Project Call For Submissions

What is life like for 21st century teenage boys and young men? If gender roles are changing, is the change being led by young people? Are we seeing glimpses of the men (and women) of the future, via the teenagers of today? Are you a teenage boy or a young man? What issues are most [...]

A Spot Of Bother – A Critique of a Sex Research Critique

According to Dr Petra Boynton, academic and ‘sexologist’, a recent study about the elusive g-spot (in women) is rubbish. This rubbish research has been reported in the media as truth. So she has critiqued the media reporting, based on her own knowledge of sex research and how it gets communicated to the public. So far so [...]

OBJECTIFY THIS

I had the beginnings of a twitter argument last night, on a subject that is dear to my heart: Objectification. @BigdaddyKeltik who is a trans man and a feminist said: * ‘Objectifying women = rape culture’. * @MILLIMETREMUSIC not puritans, feminists. Objectifying women = rape culture.— Keltik ಠ_ಠ (@BigDaddyKeltik) February 07, 2012 * I find [...]

Revenge Of Teh Menz

This week so far has been all about the men. For once. So I thought I’d share some links to recent articles that examine men and masculinity, not only through the judgemental lens of feminism. I was delighted to see my favourite writer on men, Mark Simpson, had an article in this week’s Guardian (UK newspaper). [...]

Ms Whiplash Is Back!

http://www.salon.com/writer/tracy_clark_flory/ This article in Salon, focusing on rape in the ‘BDSM community’ really got on my nerves. I am going to write a proper post on it but first I thought I’d put it here. If any of you have any observations or thoughts then leave a comment and I can incorporate your ideas into [...]

Whose Masculinity Is It Anyway?

This appeared at my Graunwatch blog originally, yesterday. I’m reposting it here as the QRG readers may be interested! http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/25/dangerous-masculinty-everyone-risk?commentpage=4#start-of-comments When I search the Guardian website using the terms ‘men’ and ‘women’ separately, invariably all that comes up for ‘men’ is stories about sport, violence, and crime. The main message of the Guardian about men has [...]

No, Seriously, What About The Men?

http://goodmenproject.com/gender-sexuality/no-seriously-what-about-the-men/comment-page-1/#comment-58222 My latest article at Good Men Project is entitled: No, Seriously, What About The Men? This is how it begins: ‘Tom Martin is becoming quite well known in the feminist and anti-feminist blogosphere. He has taken the unprecedented action of suing a Gender Studies department—the renowned LSE Gender Institute in London, UK—for discrimination against men. [...]

More Metro-Psychos

There is an interesting – and epic – essay by Elise Moore about representations of men as psychopaths in the movies over at her blog, The Autobiography of  A Soul. http://autobiographyofasoul.blogspot.com/2011/09/monstrous-masculine-and-rise-of-pop.html#comments Elise tracks the development of the psycho trope from the 1940s, to the famous film, Psycho and up to the present day. Mark Simpson [...]

In Defence Of… Hazing – Mark Simpson Takes One For The Team

http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2011/04/28/assume-the-position-a-queer-defence-of-hazing-2/#comments When I joined my local rugby team, I was made to do terrible, awful things. Even now, all these years later, I feel distressed and choked up recounting what happened. I had to stand on a chair as a full pint of beer was shoved in my groin, soaking it. I then had to [...]

Dead Men Don’t Answer Back

http://toomuchtosayformyself.com/2011/01/31/advertising-misogyny/ I have been involved in a discussion about objectification, with feminists at the blog cited above. The feminist blogger has presented the subject as being about objectification of women, particularly in advertising. I have tried to open up the debate to consider the objectification of men in visual culture, as well.  Some of the [...]