According to a recent article on male image from DR, the Danish version of the BBC, ‘From Hippie to Sex Symbol‘, the 21st Century belongs to my Rocky Horror-esque creations – the Metrosexual (‘metroseksuelle’) and the Spornosexual (‘spornosexsuelle’). Although I might quibble with some of the things the article says… Read More »Danish Spornosexuality
Colonel Sanders has really upped his abs game. In a new Mother’s Day-themed KFC ad he leads a selection of prime succulents: stripped, battered and deep-fried, covered in MILFy sauciness – just begging to be eaten. ‘I LOVE you mom!’ So many baskets and buns – so little time. OK,… Read More »Hold the Baby Gravy: KFC’s Indigestible Chickendales Ad
The hilariously shouty non-PC brilliance of Windsor Davies & It Ain’t Half Hot Mum This month, the Welsh actor Windsor Davies, 88, most famous for playing the very shouty Battery Sgt Major Williams in the now unthinkably un-PC – and apparently unrepeatable – 1970s BBC TV comedy series Ain’t Half… Read More »“Never Before Have I Seen Such a Blatant Display of Poofery!!”
‘Toxic masculinity’ may not be terribly appetising, but it does seem to be on everyone’s lips these days. The concept originally derives from the gender studies theory of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ – described on Wikipedia as the ‘stereotypic notion of masculinity that shapes the socialization and aspirations of young males’. Although… Read More »Toxic Hegemonic Masculinity Ideology
I’ve yet to see it, but the just-released Stan & Ollie film about Laurel and Hardy’s disastrous, almost-posthumous tour of postwar Britain seems to be about their love for one another – or our investment in the idea of it. Back in the no-homo early 1990s me and my pal Nick… Read More »Funny Men & Lover Boys