[lbo-talk] the decline of men

Sean Andrews cultstud76 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 09:26:12 PDT 2011


I thought it rather entertaining, actually. What's so turdy about it? It seems like a subject--this conference on it anyway--that deserves a healthy dose of derision in any reportage of it. Did I miss something?

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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:41, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:


> Un-readable - though I challenged myself against this reporting
> Red-in-Tooth-and-Claw just to prove that I can claim the water's not only
> cold but deep, too... What turdy reporting and "scholarship."
>
> Sadly, even when the academic/political topic isn't whiny, lame-ass,
> self-emasculating and reactive (White) Male Studies, a great deal of the
> scholarship on Masculinities doesn't ground itself in critical gender
> studies and ends up nightmarishly awful, biologistic and
> quasi-functionalist
> crap... not that I care or anything... ;-)
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > "It's hard being a man
> > living in a garbage pail..."
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.observer.com/2011/daily-transom/its-raining-men-homo-lacrimans-conference-male-studies
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