Tag Archives: masculinity
in which things annoy me
The New York Times‘ What’s the Skinny on the Heftier Stars? is so mind-bogglingly stupid that I wish I weren’t trying to eliminate the useful but offensive insult “retarded” from my vocabulary. Apparently, the fact that 50-year-old stars aren’t as … Continue reading
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good and bad commercials about gender
I love the hyper-masculinity of Old Spice commercials, which play on the implicit promise of Axe ads—body wash makes you sexy—with a cheesy 70s absurdism. Rather than promising that use of the product itself makes you irresistible to women, it … Continue reading
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