Archive for category: Manliness

Dream Come True Dept.?    (2011.08.12)

Tom the Carpenter. For real

Nice to shoot men for a change    (2011.07.21)

Was it more rewarding for Tim Palen to shoot manly, homoerotic actors like Mr. TOM HARDY? Not entirely, he says

Unmasculine dystopia    (2011.06.14)

Never Let Me Go presents a dystopia bereft of male characteristics. I suspect this is our actual future

Levy Brothers et al.    (2011.06.10)

I believe the claimed spiritual kinship with Mr. JOSH LEVY is real

Gay athlete has nowhere to go    (2011.04.17)

What’s the lesson out soccer player Anton Hysén has to teach us? That there’s no cultural place for the masculine gay male

An ignominious end to ‘Manthropology’    (2011.02.22)

Not a eulogy for Manthropology, a CBC podcast so marginal it doesn’t even have a homepage

What men are good for    (2010.12.20)

Sacrificing themselves, according to one critic

Personages of ‘The Butch Factor’    (2010.10.13)

Who are the subjects of the feature documentary The Butch Factor, about gay men and masculinity? (How many of them have gay accents?)

Of course effeminate gay actors aren’t believable    (2010.05.17)

What else distinguishes stars from actors? It isn’t just charisma; it’s something ineffable and unchangeable but quite detectable. Straight-guy charisma is nothing like gay-guy charisma. (Ask a gay guy who pines and yearns for straight guys)