Tag: masculinity

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I remember when I was in college, I had a professor who used to place a lot of emphasis on the differences between advertising and propaganda. The old man would explain that the former tended to adapt to the tastes and customs of its target audience, while the latter was far more insidious, even subversive. Not only did it seek to influence its intended audience, but, to a certain extent, it aimed to alter their perceptions and stances on a given issue. In other words, its drive to persuade went beyond trivial matters and had serious consequences for those it was aimed at.

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Will Blunderfield.

Admit it: our pumpkin spice-hurricane-election-World War III season is getting you down. You could use a good laugh. So, allow me to introduce you to Will Blunderfield, if you haven’t met him already.

Blunderfield is a 39-year-old gay Canadian (pardon me if that is redundant), a yoga teacher and certified expert in “sexual kung fu.” He will teach you that your testicles are batteries, which you can charge with energy. “What do your balls feel like right now? Breathe into that,” he advises. (more…)

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One of Tom Wolfe’s most celebrated books, A Man In Full, concerns the nature of masculinity. Of course, that remarkably brief take is rather like saying that Crime and Punishment is about the practical limits of utilitarianism. There’s quite a lot going on in it, which is to be expected since it’s a little longer than Dostoyevsky’s classic. Therefore, I won’t get too far into my usual blow-by-blow. I’ll proceed after the premise with a thematic analysis of this classic from 1998. (more…)

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Doug Emhoff, AKA “Mr. Kamala Harris.” Offical White House Photo

Since most voters are so dumb it’s a miracle that they can even fill out their ballot, and since they wouldn’t understand the issues even if politicians were honest about them, most presidential campaigns amount to little more than flagrantly deceptive PR blitzes. From now until November 5, both parties’ marketing gurus will struggle to make the candidates and their families “relatable” and “likeable.” (more…)

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Sinister Womanizer Secret 6: Don’t let rejection get you down

It hurts to be rebuffed, especially when it’s done with undeserved cruelty. For some guys, getting kicked in the face enough times will produce a condition called approach anxiety. (more…)

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SPOILERS BELOW

In the style of Charlie Kaufman’s screenplays — e.g., Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) — Norwegian writer/director Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario, his first English-language feature film, is a smart and stinging rebuke to the celebrity of influencer culture, consumer capitalism, and perhaps most provocatively, cancel culture. As such, there is a decidedly conservative streak to this satirical film with, at one point, overt references made to the “Alt Right” and Intellectual Dark Web-aligned figures (e.g. Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson). (more…)

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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “The Difference Between a Man and a Douchebag,” on the fundamental differences that distinguish a man from a douchebag, even though a male may be both at different times in his life. See below. (more…)

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It’s a statistical fact that men die younger than women do, and not simply because we want to. The odds are so stacked against us these days that even though black women are supposed to be doubly oppressed, they outlive white men. (more…)

William Blake, Mrs. Q, ca. 1815

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“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.” — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

The last article of mine that our editors at Counter–Currents kindly published was about the masculine topic of military history. To complement a foray into the Napoleonic Wars, I included a clip from the 1970 film Waterloo.^[1] In the comments, a reader shared an observation about one of the few Waterloo scenes that did not take place on a battlefield. Instead, this particular scene immersed audiences in a Brussels high-society fête, where the Duchess of Richmond hosted the Duke of Wellington’s officers at her famous summer Ball of 1815. (more…)

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Edward Dutton
Witches, Feminism and the Fall of the West
Whitefish, MT: Radix & Washington Summit Publishers, 2021

Are you tired of witches organizing to try to burn you at the stake, rather than the other way around? I know I am. Edward Dutton, a British-born professor of evolutionary psychology, explains in a new book what witches represented historically and how the same type of people came to be dominant in contemporary society. (more…)

Jack Murphy, aka John Goldman, an allegedly conservative “masculinity coach” who will get very angry with you if you suggest he’s gay, even though he’s said publicly that he’s had sex with men and has made videos while using a dildo on himself. He also used to frequently interact with a recent mass shooter on Twitter.

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Lyndon McLeod, Jack Murphy, & the Perils of Performative Masculinity

As a wee beardless youth in the brick-and-cement ’burbs of Philadelphia, I found myself watching an old Robert Mitchum film on TV one night and wondering how he managed to be so cool. Then it suddenly occurred to me that his secret was that he didn’t think about being cool; he simply was cool. To become conscious about being cool was to take a long leap away from even hoping to be cool. (more…)

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Nick Jeelvy was joined by Hapaperspective and Dr. Ricardo Duchesne to discuss the fundamental differences between the Chinese and European minds and the China question more broadly on the latest installment of The Writers’ Bloc, and it is now available for online listening and download. (more…)

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Down these mean streets, a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. (more…)