On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s powerful speech on the House floor, and the entrenched narrative of the “disruptive” woman.
toxic masculinity
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How The Cult of Masculinity Can Poison Creative Writing Programs
There are numerous ways to tell stories. In her turn MFA program, one writer encountered a literary culture that espoused gendered aesthetics and fostered toxic masculinity.
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One Man’s Poison
The only way to protect herself from her father was to erase him from her life, but she survived being his daughter by acting just like he did.
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On Beauty and Disability
Examining the body, disability, and the damaging idea of objective beauty.
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The Classroom Origins of Toxic Masculinity
It’s a relatively new term for a concept as old as time.
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Why Do Men Fight?: An Interview with Thomas Page McBee
“When I started asking myself questions about my own notions of masculinity. I just felt so limited, so suddenly afraid of becoming the kind of man I’d grown up in fear of.”
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The Queer Art of Failing Better
Laurie Penny on Queer Eye: “It’s not about queerness at all. It’s actually about the disaster of heterosexuality—and what, if anything, can be salvaged from its ruins.”
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Welcome to the Jungle
As Caitlin Moran explains, there are Bad Men, and then there are Badly Educated Men.
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Hemingway’s Last Girl
A lot of women loved Hemingway. Should you?
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The Cold War and its Fallout
A son approaching middle age looks back on a volatile relationship with his father.