Tag Archives: masculinity

Walk Like a Man, My Son

Scientists are reportedly trying to uncover the secret of the Essex Walk - but Mark Simpson has been studying the Squaddie Spring and the Wide Boy Waltz for years (Originally appeared in Attitude, March 1998) Putting one foot in front of the other is a tricky business when you’re a bloke. There’s so much scope for things going wrong.

Are Modern Men Manly Enough?

Yours truly takes part in a round table heated  debate on masculinity over at The New York Times. (You won’t be surprised to discover that unlike most contributors, I’m intensely relaxed about intensely relaxed modern masculinity.)

Metrosexy: A 21st Century Self-Love Story’ by Mark Simpson out May 31st

metrosexy A 21st Century Self-Love Story by Mark Simpson Everything you always wanted to know about the end of sexuality (But were afraid to ask)  Back in the flaky-skinned early Nineties Mark Simpson predicted the future of men was metrosexual. How the world scoffed. But a decade into the tarty 21st Century, even he’s shocked

America to Machismo: How Do I Quit You?

Dire warnings of how men are doomed because more chapesses are now in work than chaps, are more educated, and now earning more (in large cities), prompted a special ‘Man Up!’ issue of Newsweek a few weeks back on the ‘crisis of masculinity’.  The centrepiece was an interesting, lengthy – and oddly-conflicted – essay titled

The world’s most perceptive writer about modern masculinity’

Is me, apparently. I can’t really find it in me to disagree. From the global trend-spotting/cool-hunting website Science of the Time: Mark Simpson is probably the world’s most perceptive – and certainly the wittiest – writer about modern masculinity. Mark Simpson has by far the sharpest mind when it comes to changing masculinities. With a worldwide reputation,