Want to lift this up a bit because it highlights how the conversation around masculinity is centered around a lot of racialized assumptions as well.
Jane Yolen was an absolutely lovely human and also an almost absurdly talented writer. It's wonderful when both things are wrapped up in the same person. I considered her a friend and a colleague, and I will miss her. Condolences to the each of the many of us who knew her. Her memory is a blessing.
cooking used to be discussed like playing the guitar. A certain number of ppl did it and even doing it at a basic level was worth clout
the nba playoffs 🤝 the world cup
players acting like they’ve been shot the second they come into slight physical contact with an opponent
Big Ol’ Mush
I have concerns about social media: overconsumption, oversimplification, over-overing generally, and I do think it hurts our attention span but so many of these arguments boil down to people in midlife crisis horrified that the kids don’t find them or their music cool
It’s not recent.
It goes at least as far back as my childhood in the 70’s and 80’s.
The only way a politics guy in our culture gets coded as sufficiently male to please the critics is if he looks almost GOP because that is the party that is coded male here.
Wait until they hear the first movies were less than a minute long
All the people crying that we need “regular sports guy” Dems are the same people who told Obama—an absolute regular sports guy—to tone it down.
