I’ve only just seen this Australian viral ad for Maxibon ice-cream from last year, and have to say that’s some manwich. It’s as if they decided to satirise the intensely annoying – and self-defeating – MANly strap-on theme of a lot of very bad recent men’s advertising by taking it… Read More »Manly Strap-Ons May Contain Traces of Man Nuts
Beer, as everyone knows, was invented so that men can touch and hug and kiss – and sometimes shag – one another. And not have to talk about it or even remember the next day. ‘Oh boy, was I drunk last night!’. Beer was invented in other words to allow… Read More »How Beer Went Queer
A while ago this blog took a look at the sticky relationship that exists between American men and food — and the way that obesity, oral insatiability and a weakness for Whoppers is marketed as ‘manly’. In an excellent post by Holly Richmond at The Grist about the US media’s… Read More »Manly Strap-Ons And Fear of The Fag Within