Nina Power, "What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents" (Penguin, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Gay Men, You Know, Are Rival to Straight Men?
i think there's sometimes a deep sympathy between gay men and women, which is much more interesting and much more complicated. And i can see why in the kind of ma or gay community that there is sometimes a playing with, not only with femininity or camp, but also with the language of womanhood. But for the gay men who want to have sex with straight men, or straight acting men, then women are opposition. There theyre trouble. So, er, there's that extreme mesogeny from people like owen jones,. figures, gay men on the left, and many men on the right. On the other hand, i m a strong defender of the demi
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