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Friday, March 12, 2010 - 2:10pm By Suzanne ForbesThis week's column is an opinion piece. It's about Men in Skirts. My opinion is, men should wear skirts. Not just in the goth club, not just at Burning Man, not just kilts. Men should wear skirts lots more than they do. Why? ...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 4:27pm By Sinclair Sexsmith“Have you seen the Dockers ads?” someone asked me recently at a conference, after I told them I write about masculinity. "A friend told me he liked those ads, because he is so unsure of what it means to 'be a man' right now. Everything has changed...
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Friday, February 19, 2010 - 1:22pm By Asher BauerI can’t remember quite how old I was when I first watched The Naked Civil Servant, a biopic about the extraordinary Quentin Crisp (played by the incomparable John Hurt). I do remember that it was a revelation. Here, for the first time, was a...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 1:36pm By Sinclair SexsmithAt a bar last week, catching up with some feminist queer old friends, I began discussing my ideas around Radical Masculinity and the theories I am putting forward about the ways masculinity needs work. I drunkenly argued that women have surpassed...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 3:07pm By Sinclair SexsmithMy dad's best friend died last week. Heart attack. He was 60, barely older than my dad, not old enough for his heart to give way. They've been friends for 35 years, longer than I've been alive. I got a heartbreaking email from my father about how...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 1:16pm By Sinclair SexsmithRemember back in the Spring of 2009 when two young boys committed suicide within a week of each other, both eleven years old? Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Massachusetts and Jaheem Herrera of Georgia were both being subjected to unbearable anti-gay...
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Monday, August 10, 2009 - 5:30pm By John PettittA new analysis of data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association concludes that the stronger the “masculinity beliefs,” the less likely a man is to get preventive...
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