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The Bitch High-Five: What's Your Least Favorite Summer Blockbuster Trope?

Bitch HQ post by Deb Jannerson, Submitted by Deb Jannerson on June 13, 2011 - 8:39pm; tagged bad movies, gender stereotypes, racial stereotypes, summer, tropes.

Every month in our newsletter (sign up on the homepage!), we survey our staffers and readers on their top five in a given category, complete with options, results and further comment space here on the Bitch blog. Lend a vote and give us five, or share your own idea after the jump!

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Dumb & Getting Dumber

Sideways, Spongebob, and the New Masculinity

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.

Sideways, Spongebob, and the New Masculinity

Masculinity

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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