Tag Archives: menaissance

Fill My Man Cave With Your Manly Man Meat

(No, this is not an Onion spoof. This is very serious indeed. Masculinity and selling shit is about as serious as you can get in America.) Tip: DAKrolak

March 19, 2013 – 4:00 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in advertising | Tagged , , , , | Comments (4)

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.)

July 13, 2012 – 7:53 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in metrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

Retrosexuality isn’t what it used to be

My attention was recently drawn by a concerned member of the browsing public to a piece on Salon.com, ‘Retrosexuals: The latest lame macho catchphrase’ by Aaron Traister, entertainingly lambasting the ‘new’ retrosexual trend: I woke up this morning to discover my local paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, peddling a story about America’s new favorite model of …

April 10, 2010 – 11:41 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, metrosexual, retrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (15)

Republican Great White Hope Scott Brown’s Pink Leather Past

A profile on the truck driving Republican Presidential hopeful from Boston Scott Brown in Vanity Fair caused a few chuckles last week with his wife’s cheeky revelation about the pink leather shorts he wore to his first date with her in the 1980s.  Here’s the money shot: “The pinkish color drained from [Brown’s] face when I …

March 3, 2010 – 2:07 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (14)