Tag Archives: New York Times

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)

Gayest Fashion Feature Evah?

The NY Times wants to convince you that men’s fashion blogging is the new bull-fighting. In an inadvertently hilarious piece titled ‘Straight Talk — A New Breed of Fashion Bloggers’, it sets out to prove that Tweeting and Tumbling about tie pins all day is really, like, butch. NOT every fashion blogger is a 15-year-old …

January 14, 2012 – 1:39 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, fashion, metrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (6)

Tartphones

Martin Lindstrom writing in The NYT today (‘You Love your iPhone. Literally.’) claims to have found evidence, using fancy-pants neuro-imaging technology, that people are not ‘addicted’ to their smartphones as is commonly suggested, but rather, ‘love’ them. And not, like, ironically. Or like ‘I heart my iPhone’. But like they love a person. Or how …

October 2, 2011 – 7:23 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments (10)

Bisexual Men Exist! But Does Scientific Sex Research?

Those kinky penile plethysmograph fetishists at Northwestern University just can’t get enough cock. Dr JM Bailey and his chums have been strapping a fresh batch of penises into their sex-lie detector machines again, showing them porn and feverishly twiddling their knobs. But this time – hold the front page! – their ‘scientific’ findings very kindly …

August 23, 2011 – 4:54 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (25)

Not in Front of the Goyim: Gays and Not-So-Open Relationships

Interesting piece by Scott James in today’s New York Times: New research at San Francisco State University reveals just how common open relationships are among gay men and lesbians in the Bay Area. The Gay Couples Study has followed 556 male couples for three years — about 50 percent of those surveyed have sex outside …

January 29, 2010 – 2:05 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in gay marriage | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (7)

Gay Marriage On The Rocks: Ain’t No Surprise

The wheels appear to have come off the gay marriage bus in the US and no one seems to know how to put them back on.  Not even the lesbians. And that’s not according to meddlin’ Limey Uncle Tom ‘slut’ me (as I was dubbed by the Voice of Gay America) but according to the gay-marriage-supporting  New …

December 8, 2009 – 1:04 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, gay marriage | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (63)

That Nice Mr Alain de Botton Can Be Nasty Too!

It’s just been drawn to my slow-witted attention that the ‘popular philospher’ and professionally nice Alain de Botton last month had an hilarious hissy fit over a critical review of his latest offering ‘The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work’ by Caleb Crain in the New York Times. Now, none of us writer types like bad reviews — and I’ve penned …

August 11, 2009 – 12:39 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments (16)

Limo Liberals Take The High Road to Defeat

By Mark Simpson Claiming the moral high ground is, in my view, the lowest form of politics. No doubt this means that, like the voters of Pennsylvania, I don’t read The New York Times enough. We’re really missing out. Yesterday’s haughty editorial in the wake of Senator Clinton’s convincing victory in that key state, despite …

April 25, 2008 – 3:26 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Barack Obama, commentary, Hillary Clinton, politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (5)