Mark Simpson on how Sean Connery’s ‘overgrown stuntman’ sired a generation of young men licenced to thrill So, Mr Bond finally did what Mr Goldfinger expected him to do. Even if it took 56 years. This October, two months after his 90th birthday, Sir Thomas Sean Connery, the first, most… Read More »Goodbye, Mr Bond – Hello Buff New World
I should probably pretend that I have something interesting to say about this ad for Leorever ‘micro tight’ compression shorts, starring a young blond, pneumatic spornosexual (Michael Dean Johnson) working out on a beach in wet, super-clingy spandex, and covered in baby oil. But, aside from noting that they had… Read More »Micro Tight Beach Buns
The ‘crisis of masculinity’ is really a form of male emancipation argues Mark Simpson (First appeared in Sweden’s SvD newspaper, 17/06/2017; published here in English with permission) Back in the late 20th Century, when I first began writing about masculinity – which seems an epoch away now – everyone knew what masculinity… Read More »Male Lib is Nothing to Be Scared Of
Delighted to announce that I’ll be appearing at Denmark’s famous Heartland Festival, Egeskov Castle, 2-4 June. I’ll be discussing that hot topic of contemporary masculinity – and it’s need to be hot – along with the Danish designer Mads Norgaard, with the journalist Adrian Lloyd Hughes charing. More info here.… Read More »Mark Simpson at Heartland Festival
by Mark Simpson ‘What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god!… And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?’ –… Read More »Man Down – Defining Deflated & Liberated Masculinity