Tag Archives: Bromance

The New Bromanticism

Just over half of British and American men are currently in or have had a ‘bromance’ in the past according to a survey, not by Dr Kinsey, but by Badoo (‘the world’s largest social network for meeting new people’). The Badoo press release – issued on Valentine’s Day last week – claims that the survey …

February 24, 2012 – 12:33 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Bromance, commentary, masculinity | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (26)

Why ‘Warrior’ Isn’t That Kind of Girl

Middlesbrough, Teeside, one of the last steel-making towns in the UK or in fact one of the last places in the UK where they still make anything, is probably the right place to go and see, as I did last week, Warrior, the recently-released, much-hyped MMA Rocky remake set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warrior is essentially …

October 5, 2011 – 2:57 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, film, popular culture | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (7)

In Defence of Jerry Lewis

Martin and Lewis were the hottest male comedy double-act of all time — who make today’s ‘bromance’ look like bromide. By Mark Simpson (Originally appeared in Out, May 2009 — but has fallen off their website) Forget hair whorls, genomes, amniotic fluid, older brothers, domineering mothers or disco. I can reveal with absolute, religio-scientific certainty …

August 5, 2011 – 11:14 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, comedy, commentary, journalism, television | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

It’s Humpday For Masculinity

The trouble with very smart dames who ‘get’ what’s happened to the male of the species is that they threaten to put this particular one out of work. Over at the HuffPo Caroline Hagood has written an annoyingly good piece about Lynn Shelton’s bromance-dissecting movie Humpday, about two straight male buddies who decide to make a …

March 11, 2010 – 11:54 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, metrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (10)

Lewis and Martin’s 50’s Love Makes Today’s Bromance Look Like Bromide

This month’s Outfeatures a column by yours truly, called ‘In Defense of Jerry Lewis’, explaining how my childhood love for early Lewis made me the man I am today — and why his anarchic comedy partnership with Dean Martin in the ‘repressed’ 1950s was a kind of queer punk rock before even rock and roll …

May 8, 2009 – 10:23 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, comedy, journalism, television | Tagged , , , | Comments (26)

Male Bisexuality: Is it Cool?

Rachel Kramer Bussel at The Daily Beast thinks that male bisexuality has become ‘cool’. ‘…whereas bisexual women had their fling with pop culture in the 1990s-when everyone from Drew Barrymore to Madonna messed around with women, not to mention the famous Vanity Fair cover showing Cindy Crawford shaving k.d. lang-“bromances” are now the driving force …

April 23, 2009 – 3:43 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in bisexuality, commentary, masculinity | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (14)