Dire warnings of how men are doomed because more chapesses are now in work than chaps, are more educated, and now earning more (in large cities), prompted a special ‘Man Up!’ issue of Newsweek a few weeks back on the ‘crisis of masculinity’. The centrepiece was an interesting, lengthy… Read More »America to Machismo: How Do I Quit You?
Is me, apparently. I can’t really find it in me to disagree. From the global trend-spotting/cool-hunting website Science of the Time: Mark Simpson is probably the world’s most perceptive – and certainly the wittiest – writer about modern masculinity. Mark Simpson has by far the sharpest mind when it comes to… Read More »‘The world’s most perceptive writer about modern masculinity’
Mark Simpson on the childish-mannish nature of men When I was a boy in the languorous 1970s I looked forward to Christmas not just for the prezzies but the boredom that only cold turkey and another repeat of The Sound of Music could produce. I calculated that the more bored… Read More »Unleash the Geek
By Mark Simpson, Independent on Sunday (December 3, 2006) We all know that Australians are better than us. Better looking, better at sport, better at partying, better at sex, better at reality TV shows. Mostly because they told us so. Very loudly. Little wonder recent Government figures showed half the… Read More »We’re Better at Everything, Mate: Australia’s Sports Complex