I have one huge quibble with Michael Kimmel’s otherwise excellent book Guyland. It’s towards the end, when he veers a tad close to validating the complaint of Nice Guys® everywhere, which is that their very Niceness means all women everywhere will reject them. There’s a lot of problems with that…
I finished reading Michael Kimmel’s Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, which didn’t take me much time, and probably would have taken less time if it weren’t so thought-provoking that I had to put it down occasionally and think about it. Kimmel takes the reader through the world…
I’m in the midst of reading Michael Kimmel’s Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (the final review should be interesting, as it’s a very yes/no/maybe book), and in the chapter in the hook-up culture, I seized up when I saw that Kimmel was going to use quotes from…
I’ve had a weirdly intense week, and so I’m pretty tired. So while I was going to post on more Republican evil shit, I don’t have the moral stamina. But I do want to highlight this interesting post Hugo put up on Michael Kimmel’s new book Guyland: The Perilous World…