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Grayson Perry: the watch, the tie, the tattoo? It's a man thing …

Edit The Guardian 29 Oct 2016
So here are six objects I think illustrate something about masculinity and its stranglehold on the look and feel of our world ... These are such an epitome of masculinity that they have almost become a metaphor for it ... These watches have got lots of functions, and knobs poking out of them, that they’re never going to need, which is just like masculinity, really ... Masculinity is incompatible with the western democratic project....

Moonlight portrays black gay life in its joy, sadness and complexity

Edit The Guardian 29 Oct 2016
Second, it acknowledges the effects that the stalking ghosts of premature death and incarceration have upon gay black masculinity – and it manages to do so without ever diminishing the lives full of complex humanity that black gay men still manage to have in America while navigating that reality ... Moonlight review – devastating drama is vital portrait of black gay masculinity in America....

Nate Parker Allegedly Exposed Himself to Trainer at Penn State

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 29 Oct 2016
By Gene Maddaus. LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - A student trainer at Penn State alleges that director Nate Parker exposed himself to her in a previously unreported incident in 2000, according to the New York Times ... Parker struggled to respond, at times acknowledging his own "toxic masculinity" and the evolution in his understanding of consent while also maintaining his innocence....

A day of learning about sexual violence prevention (University of California - Berkeley)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Oct 2016
(Source. University of California - Berkeley) ... Keith Edwards leads a sexual-violence prevention workshop. (UC Berkeley photo by Cici Ambrosia) ... Edwards said men have to be more cognizant that they have been taught unrealistic expectations of masculinity and, as such are pressured to meet society's standards. Toxic themes of manhood, Edwards explained, are at the root of sexual violence ... 'Anyone can do this,'' Edwards said ... (noodl....

Far from straightforward

Edit The Hindu 29 Oct 2016
Santhu Straight Forward (Kannada). Director. Mahesh Rao. Cast. Yash, Radhika Pandit, Anant Nag, Shaam, Seetha, Devaraj, Sumathi. Santhu Straight Forward is more a brochure of Santhu’s (Yash) abilities than a film. Through the course of a 159-minute-long film, we learn of his skills in fighting (slow-motion fights, to be precise), dancing, wooing a girl and delivering paragraph-long lines about what constitutes masculinity ... ....

Solange and the Fading Tom Hanks: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

Edit The Atlantic 29 Oct 2016
The Profound Power of the New Solange Videos. Cassie da Costa . The New Yorker. “In ‘Don’t Touch My Hair,’ each scene falls into a loose, unhurried narrative, linked by tone ... The Slow Fade of Tom Hanks. Anne Helen Petersen ... “To call Hanks ‘a classic Dad’ is to speak of a specific, goofy, white middle-class Dad—a trope built on the pillars of white privilege, asexual masculinity, and nostalgia for a straightforward history of great men....

Organisations must foster a culture of diversity and inclusion

Edit Khaleej Times 29 Oct 2016
For as long as I can remember, women facing challenges in the workplace has been a topical issue which embraces many strong opinions. With every decade, we see more and more women in top leadership positions - perhaps the world will even witness the first female American president soon. But "more and more" is relative ... Feminine or masculine? ... Queen-bee syndrome ... Company commitment ... Thinking ahead ... ....

Pamela Anderson: I fear that the world is going Viagra crazy!

Edit Belfast Telegraph 29 Oct 2016
Pamela Anderson is surprisingly proper ... So it's a mark of quite how "awful" she finds trophy hunters like Donald Trump's sons that she not only grimaces at their mention, but declares in that buttery, breathy drawl. "Anyone who does that must have a small penis.". I've met Anderson at the Dorchester in London ... She's currently producing a film with James Cameron about vegan men, to show it isn't intrinsic to masculinity to eat meat ... ....

Manipulating the Media, Clinton-Style

Edit Dissident Voice 29 Oct 2016
Owned and operated by the one percent, the mainstream media (MSM) is now in the closing stages of a multi-media character assassination of Donald Trump. In effect, it is a backhanded promotional campaign to elect Hillary Clinton ... In any media war, the casualties are ideological. Millions have been infected with the false faith of American democracy and its sub-strains of hyper-masculinity and exceptionalism ... Step One ... Step Two ... No longer ... ....

Want To Look More Handsome, Masculine, And Put Together? Then Groom Your Brows.

Edit Forbes 28 Oct 2016
Joe Jonas attends the Kenzo x H&M; Runway Show at Pier 36 on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Here’s the thing about your eyebrows. When you’re young, you don’t have to pay much attention to them. They sort of do their own thing. But as you [...] ... ....

University of California professor explains system ‘rigged’ against Trump

Edit The Mercury News 28 Oct 2016
press coverage of the campaign ... The solution? ... And the rest? ... Many have impressions of Trump as being especially masculine — in the words of Trump supporter Lupe Moreno of Santa Ana, “He’s a man’s man ... Hillary Clinton ranked 10th most feminine of the 35, more masculine than Trump, Barack Obama and Chris Christie. A related study by Jones found that Clinton’s speech became increasingly more masculine from 1993 to 2003....

Where West Africa's hopes go to die

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 28 Oct 2016
The image of an accomplished high-profile West African football star who embodies the masculine ideal of an independent and responsible adult man, capable of financially ......

Seth Meyers Takes a Closer Look at the GOP's Musket-Grabbin' Women Problem

Edit New York Magazine 28 Oct 2016
If Donald Trump uncomfortably clutching an American flag is the flash-forward of modern life, then the how-we-got-here backstory is a grim spectacle of fragile masculinity, Donald Trump saying creepy things about Ivanka, and the sordid tale of Hillary Clinton's UFO lover. Seth Meyers took another one of his patented closer ... More » ... ....
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