The Delhi-based artist Pallavi Singh has been meditating on metrosexuality in the Indian subcontinental context again and has very kindly sent me these rather wonderful new paintings and given me permission to post them here. I think my personal favourite is ‘Rise of Mirror Man’ – I particularly like how… Read More »Mirror Men on Canvas – and in Crocs
Tip: Benjamin D
An interesting segment from ABC about the way kids are made to wear the ‘appropriate’ gender, whether they want to or not. (Sorry about that emetic ‘message’ music at the end.) (Video no longer available) The first mother literally jumps with horror and a sharp intake of breath when the… Read More »Princess Spiderman
The next time someone tries to convince me that Pitt is ‘a really great actor, actually’ I’ll just throw my eyes around the room in a casually-but-profoundly dramatic fashion before fixing them on the Fight Club fanboy – and it always is a Fight Club fanboy – and saying: “THERE… Read More »It’s Not a Journey: The Endless Trend of Male Vanity
Yours truly takes part in a round table heated debate on masculinity over at The New York Times. (You won’t be surprised to discover that unlike most contributors, I’m intensely relaxed about intensely relaxed modern masculinity.)