I hope that years from now we’ll look back and laugh at the time when female clothing models were all expected to conform to a very narrow and specific range […]
Author: Ned Resnikoff
Researcher for Media Matters for America. Nothing I write in my posts should be construed as reflecting the views of Media Matters.
On Lad Mags and Masculine Panic
Say this about lad mags: Their writing may be clunky and their attitude towards women troubling, but they do offer a fascinating window into a peculiar type of male anxiety. […]
Rep. Allen West’s Phallocentric Theory of Deficit Reduction
This week, Mother Jones and a few other places ran a tape of some curious remarks made by the always eccentric Rep. Allen West (R-FL). Speaking to the conservative group […]
True Grit’s Ad Campaign Buries the Lead
The other night, I got to see an advance screening for the Coen brothers‘ latest, the revisionist Western True Grit. The movie was no Fargo or No Country For Old […]
Can Feminism Liberate Men?
Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, “One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” The male corollary, a much older aphorism, is usually framed as an imperative: “Be a man.” […]