I'm enjoying Deadspin's new series analyzing different chapters of the 1987 crisis of masculinity book The Modern Man's Guide to Life, seeing how this advice holds up after nearly 30.
No matter what period, what social class, or what issues are at stake, men always think masculinity in permanently in crisis and must be protected against all its threats. In.
Willa Brown published a piece in the Atlantic yesterday on "lumbersexuality" and a crisis of masculinity. By lumbersexuality, Brown means the logger fetish a certain subset of bearded hipster men.
After Coca-Cola cut the cocaine after the formula, it was very important to let drinkers know that it was "pleasing without being effeminate."
Mike Elk's long piece on southern white masculinity and the defeat of the UAW in Chattanooga is well worth your time. There's a long history in the South of working-class.
