Tag Archives: hazing

Do These Upstanding Young Men Look Like Gay Homosexual Butt Chuggers?

No, this one isn’t the work of The Onion. Not only would the large cast of suited and booted fraternity boys with solemn faces and clasped hands standing behind the comedy attorney who can’t stop saying ‘butt chugging’ break their production budget, it’s just far too chugging crazy. If this uniquely American spectacle had been presented …

October 4, 2012 – 10:48 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , | Comments (5)

Really Rucking Funny: Best Manlove Video of 2011 (SFW)

This clip by Irish comedy outfit Dead Cat Bounce called ‘Rugby’ has to be my favourite video of 2011. Even if it strongly suggests that, in Ireland at least, my work here is done and it’s well past time to retire to the touch-lines. There’s much to admire here: the lightness of touch, the hilarious …

December 21, 2011 – 2:06 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, Rugby, sport | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Assume the Position: a queer defence of hazing

Mark Simpson wants to be be soundly smacked with a paddle (Out magazine, 2006) When I joined my local rugby team, I was made to do terrible, awful things. Even now, all these years later, I feel distressed and choked up recounting what happened. I had to stand on a chair as a full pint …

April 28, 2011 – 12:20 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, commentary, journalism, masculinity | Tagged , , , , | Comments (11)

The Cleanest Bodies and the Filthiest Minds

The skipper of the nuclear-powered carrier and Star Trek namesake the USS Enterprise seems to be in danger of being keelhauled for ‘raunchy’ on-board videos he made to entertain the crew back in 2007 when he was second in command. The videos included male-male and female-female pairs pretending to soap one another up in the …

January 3, 2011 – 12:47 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity | Tagged , , , , | Comments (4)

Homoerotic Horseplay — Not Gay Just Guy

A column of mine on Out.com, ‘Men At Play in Afgrabistan’, gallantly defends the freedom of the derided (and now dismissed) security guards at the US embassy to get naked with one another and eat potato chips from each other’s butts in their spare time — even if they’re out of shape.  I also point …

September 17, 2009 – 3:05 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, commentary, journalism | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (36)