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plastikkpoet

☆ IT'S MASCULINITY MATE

Sep 27, 2006 12:46

mark latham thinks we should all be "men" (what ever that is). his lecturing comes about because aparently releasing conga line of suckholes grants him authority to decide what masculinity is for australia (nay the world). it seems, in the latham rhetoric, that mates and good blokes are an endangered species. i say, so what? especially if you take ( Read more... )

mascunlinity, being 'man', politics

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petatron September 27 2006, 05:11:44 UTC

gross. thats exactly the kind of man i have no desire to be around at all.

nimuroji September 27 2006, 05:14:16 UTC

Interesting you speak of this now as I was just reading a book about the image of homosexuality today. And it was discussing the different ways that it has been portrayed through history saying insofar as there was a tie during the 80's and early 90's when the gay male was stereotyped as the "macho man". Whereas now anything but the macho male is seen as queer.

plastikkpoet September 27 2006, 06:33:32 UTC

really? gay identities characterised as macho? random. i wouldn't have said that myself. perhaps specific kinds of gay identities such as bears and hunks

xx_calliope_xx September 27 2006, 20:45:20 UTC

The key words there were "80s and early 90s" - what about Freddy Mercury, rough trade, leather, the construction dude from the Village People...etc. It doesn't get more macho in my books...now the closest we have is a sobbing cowboy on Big Brother ;)

plastikkpoet September 27 2006, 23:50:21 UTC

ok i guess what i meant was saying "gay identities are characterised as macho" could be constructed as saying all (or the majority of) gay identities were "macho" which i doubt is accurate. perhaps the majority of publicly visual gay identities within popular consciousness were macho, but certainly all gay identities were not. i dont think twinks and fems just sprung up at the turn of the decade :p

ps i am listening to without you i'm nothing by placebo really loudly in newtown and maybe thinking about moving to sydney :p "don't let me down, don't let me be, don't let me down"

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dyslogistic September 27 2006, 22:13:15 UTC

Don't forget that he attributes half of it to "the rise of radical feminism in the 70s and 80s". I nearly vomited all over my Courier Mail when I read that.

plastikkpoet September 27 2006, 23:47:08 UTC

you were reading the courier mail? i would have been vomiting already lol

dyslogistic September 30 2006, 07:42:39 UTC

Don't worry, I didn't pay for it.