Nina Power, "What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents" (Penguin, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Gay Men Are No More a Claim to Some Kind of Protected Status
To be gay is barely any more a claim to some kind of protected status. Gay men are now, i think, probably underneath the straight man. We've got gay marriage under a conservative government. It's all absolutely fine. In any as in any minority, our identities keepon multiply and well, keep on splintering to smaller and smaller bits. But we have the possibility to jump at any one anser that looks kind of crystal clear at anyone moment. And therefore it becomes absorbed as a kind of tacit desire of the nurable subjectso i'mafraid, i'm afraid we're stuck in just the same way.
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