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http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/who-are-you-calling-gay/

"To not be a man is to not be fully human and that’s terrifying."

Yeah, I've nabbed that somewhat out of context, but it's amazing both in and out of context.

The piece as a whole is riveting. No surprises, I don't think, but relevant to multiple recent discussions here, and really resonated with me from low-level parental paranoia about their kid being gay to the idea that masculinity is some awesome prize in the crackerjack box (that, by extension, should be maintained regardless of cost to self and/or cost to others).

Date: 2009-04-17 09:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laughingacademy.livejournal.com
Weirdly enough, this reminds me of an episode from season 1 of Make Me a Supermodel in which the contestants were split into a three-man team and two-women-plus-one-man team. One of the members of the all-guy team trash-talked his male competition by calling him "gay" and "a girl." Afterward he was called on his homophobia, but nobody mentioned the misogyny.

That's when I started throwing things at my TV.

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