The Uncanny Valley of Media Masculinity
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to see people I’m attracted to — really attracted to, people who I’d be attracted to in real life — on my television. Regularly. The screen is a step away from reality for all of us; TV and movies are vehicles for our fantasies. But my guess [...]
...read moreSex, Drugs, Theology, Men & Feminism: Interview with Hugo Schwyzer
Role/Reboot regular contributor Hugo Schwyzer has an extremely controversial history that includes four marriages, substance abuse, and sexual behavior that he has since described as compulsive and destructive until he got clean and sober and turned his life around, beginning in 1998.
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The Hurt Locker (2009)
There is a lot of chatter about The Hurt Locker and whether director Kathryn Bigelow will serve up a feast of schadenfreude by besting ex-husband and douche James Cameron at the Oscars this year. Despite not having seen Avatar just yet, I did sit down to watch The Hurt Locker last night and was blown [...]
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Body Impolitic Greets Feministe!
Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin say: We are delighted to be invited to guest blog here at Feministe. We can usually be found (along with a couple of regular guest bloggers) at Body Impolitic, where we blog about body image (interpreted as widely as possible), photography, art, and occasional other topics. We got into [...]
...read moreBrawn Vs Brains: The Golem & Jewish Masculinity
I’ve been holding off on this post because I didn’t think it was fully fledged yet, but I’ve decided to just accept it as it is. A note: I am not Israeli. This post doesn’t comment on modern Israeli culture. I’ve noted before that the stereotypes of Jewish men and women line up uncannily with [...]
...read moreMy last post and a call for writers
This will be my last post as a guest-blogger, it’s been a lot of fun to be able to interact with so many of you versus at my place where I only get the occasional troll who likes to make sure I know what he thinks of me. Thanks Jill, I look forward all of [...]
...read moreAdventures in Variance
This is just a response to some of the comments in the masculinity thread at Pandagon, which was interesting. In terms of the larger debate…I still feel like the “anti-feminists are just too mean” side hasn’t made its case, especially when it argues that feminism has failed. Truth is, you can never appease entitlement better [...]
...read moreThe Persistent Undesirable
In a world where masculinity is assumed to represent strength and power, those who are butch are able to contemplate their identities within the relative safety of those connotations. In contrast, those of us who are femme are forced to define ourselves on our own terms and develop our own sense of self-worth. It takes [...]
...read moreBetter Late than Never
(So during the long blog slowdown that attended the Cold that Wouldn’t Leave, finals week, and my trip to New York, I received several links from alert readers and saw some nifty stuff online that I wanted to comment on. I’m gonna start with what I think is the earliest first.) First of all, brownfemipower [...]
...read moreLone Butch Blues
I went out on Sunday night to a spoken-word event with charity auction at a dyke bar. While there, I had a slightly tipsy discussion with a younger but fairly old-school butch dyke about butchness and how it was becoming much less common. She believes that there was a stark generational trend away from “butch” [...]
...read moreTrans Responses to Feminist Myths
So Heart, bless her heart, has taken up the mantle of saying ignorant things about transsexuality so recently abrogated by Yawning Lion, to wit: So long as there is this idea that presenting or living in a certain way means a person ought to “transition,” or ought to “change sex,” or ought to “identify as” [...]
...read moreShe’s A Man!
Like I need yet another test telling me how unfeminine I am. Masculine You scored 76 masculinity and 43 femininity! You scored high on masculinity and low on femininity. You have a traditionally masculine personality. My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 84% [...]
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