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Fists Up: LA Boxing Pres Challenges Chris Brown to a Duel

Love / Shove post by Kelsey Wallace, February 19, 2009 - 6:49pm; tagged Chris Brown, domestic violence, duels, masculinity, MMA, violence.
Anthony Geisler, President of LA Boxing, is dealing with Chris Brown's arrest on criminal threat charges in true eye-for-an-eye fashion. Geisler started a Facebook group earlier this week called, I Want to Fight Chris Brown. (At the time of this post the group had 1,528 members and counting.) He also sent a letter to Brown's manager challenging Brown to step into the ring with him and "see what it's like to face a real opponent."

Is this type of a reaction helpful in any way? Or is it just violence begetting more violence? Share your thoughts after the jump.
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The Box's Crush of the Week: Neil Patrick Harris

The Box post by Juliana Tringali, November 29, 2008 - 1:48am; tagged Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Harold & Kumar, Henry Huggins, How I Met Your Mother, Magic Castle, masculinity, Neil Patrick Harris, Old Spice, Shoe Fairy.

Neil Patrick Harris

He's taken the role of "ladies man" to new levels on How I Met Your Mother, played himself as a child actor turned mega-douche in the Harold & Kumar movies, and even used his rep for machismo to shill Old Spice.

So why should feminists be crushing? Because he's redefining the way masculinity is portrayed in pop culture.

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Get some nuts?

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen, August 1, 2008 - 11:53pm; tagged commercials, homophobia, masculinity, Mr. T, offensive advertising, speedwalkers unite.

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About/for my dad

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 15, 2008 - 10:05pm; tagged class, classism, dads, death, Father's Day, identity politics, Johnny Cash, masculinity, reimagining feminism, religion.

Since today is Father's Day, I want to take some time to reflect on my dad, and try to start giving voice to some ideas and pain and anger that have been simmering in my mind.

My dad died this past winter after a shitty and long battle with cancer (he was a life-long smoker). He was 67. Now I know this might seem like a particularly loaded way of bringing politics down to the level of personal (and thus emotional), but here's the thing. I've been doing a lot reading lately. Of books, of blogs, of zines, magazines, chapbooks, of vision statements and organizing principles of self-described radical organizations and people... I've also been doing a lot of listening. And struggling to find the language to pull these ideas and feelings out of my head/heart, thoughts about identities and experiences. Critiques of which ones are validated/politicized and which ones aren't, and which others aren't even considered as possibilities for political analysis. And I've been struggling to even speak because, who knows? Maybe I haven't considered enough. Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe I haven't been as thoughtful as I think I have. Maybe I haven't searched hard enough.

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Coming out (and out and out)

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 13, 2008 - 9:36pm; tagged butch, coming out, gender identity, genderqueer, listen and love it, masculinity, midwest, podcasts, queer, sexuality, trans identity, transgender, transsexual.

Lately I've been thinking about the process of coming out and identities/shifting, and how for so many of us it's an ongoing/lifetime process. In part because we as individuals change, and/or in part because our environment changes, and/or in part because our identities can't be read on the outside, and/or because some of us feel the most comfortable in those in-between spaces yet sometimes feel compelled to "pick a side" (so to speak/referencing here the dualism so prevalent in mainstream Western culture), because the struggle to have our identities validated (or even finding language to define ourselves and our experiences) simply becomes too much work. But then when we "pick that side," we might eventually feel the weight of that boxed-in identity start to hurt, so we begin the process of coming out again... Or geez, to put it most simply, because things just change... 

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More conference bitching

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 7, 2008 - 9:33pm; tagged conferences, democracy, documentary, events, film, hip-hop, masculinity, media justice, media reform, misogyny, movie, National Conference on Media Reform, radical politics, sexism, watch this!.

I was back in Minneapolis this weekend for the National Conference for Media Reform, an annual event organized by the folks at Free Press, a nonpartisan group focused on media reform and policy.

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Masculinity’s Mid-Life Crisis

Love / Shove post by Anna Breshears, April 30, 2008 - 5:34pm; tagged act like a man, child-man, feminism, gender relations, knocked up, masculinity.

Lately, it seems there's been more discussion of what it means to be a man. Maybe because old school notions are becoming so unworkable that there's a critical mass of resentful partners in hetero relationships; perhaps Hilary's presidential run is raising some eyebrows in sheltered communities; certainly, movies like Knocked Up and 40 Year Old Virgin, which portray an alarmingly large group of American males that exist in perpetual adolescence, have attracted media attention.

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News flash: boys like relationships

Love / Shove post by Lisa Jervis, February 15, 2008 - 10:23pm; tagged masculinity, sexuality, stereotypes.

Cheers to a new study reporting that, contrary to age-old stereotypes about teenage boys as indiscriminate horndogs, 16-year-old boys' primary motivations for dating are that they "really like the person" (via the New York Times health blog).

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Love Guns, Tight Pants, and Big Sticks

Who Put the Cock in Rock?
Article by Juliana Tringali, Illustrated by Nicholas Brawley, appeared in issue Masculinity; published in 2005; filed under Music; tagged beauty standards, groupies, hair bands, heavy metal, masculinity, misogyny, rock, Rolling Stone, women in rock.

cock rock: To some, the term conjures up images of rock gods in white jumpsuits, long hair haloed by a rainbow of lights, fans waving their Bics in unison as an immaculate guitar solo screams out from a tower of amps. To others, it evokes backstage legends of drugs and debauchery, the triumph of malecentric hedonism over social conscience, the unapologetic celebration of sleaze. To still others, it’s shorthand for memorable riffs with a backbeat that makes you want to throw some devil horns and bang your head.

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Dumb & Getting Dumber

Sideways, Spongebob, and the New Masculinity
Dumb & Getting Dumber
Article by Judith Halberstam, Illustrated by Martha Rich, appeared in issue Masculinity; published in 2005; filed under Social commentary; tagged bad movies, gender roles, gender stereotyping, heroes, manliness, masculinity, mid-life crisis, rites of passage, spongebob squarepants, stupidity.

In 2004, every corner of popular culture was populated by men in crisis, and I don’t just mean George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney. We had men in trouble, men in triumph, men in uniform, men on the cross, men in square­pants; men being men with other men, talking about masculinity—what it is, how to have it, keep it, get it, make it last. We might even call it the Year of the Man, but the response to such a title could reasonably be, So what’s new? Isn’t every year the year of the man?

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