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Published: May 6, 2025 20:23

Just going to take a day to be overcome with The Horrors. Also, put away my winter clothes, because The Horrors are not incompatible with light folding

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Published: May 6, 2025 18:10

ICYMI: On "Sinners," or, how Irish Americans became white and turned all our music into deedly-deedly bullshit: https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/bored-of-the-dance-sinners-ryan-coogler-2025/

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Published: May 6, 2025 12:11

A really significant portion of my thinking on The Genders has been informed by men yelling "YOU CAN'T BE A MAN, YOU DON'T HATE WOMEN ENOUGH" when they learned that I was transitioning

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Published: May 6, 2025 01:41

What men need to understand about the Met Gala is that the baseline for male formalwear is "wear a suit." You can either wear the suit, as instructed, or you can get quirky with it. Either way, you will fail.

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Published: May 5, 2025 21:19

The United States of America is 3.1 Kurt Loders old [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 5, 2025 19:45

It really shouldn't be necessary to spell this out, but boys are not being told "BOYS ARE BAD." They're being told "RAPE AND MISOGYNY ARE BAD" and people want to pretend that those behaviors are "naturally" part of manhood, such that you can't get rid of…

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Published: May 5, 2025 18:30

By the way, if you didn't catch it in today's newsletter, TODAY, 5/4, is the final order cut-off for DC Pride 2025. Please go order it so that Blue Snowman becomes a household name and I get to write screenplays for their blockbuster film franchise

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Published: May 5, 2025 14:50

The fact that J.K. Rowling is a mid writer should probably matter less than the fact that she's Lady Hitler, but it STILL bothers me that we gave a mid writer enough money to become Lady Hitler

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Published: May 5, 2025 14:29

Over at the newsletter: "Sinners," and how whiteness sucked the life out of Irish folk music: https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/bored-of-the-dance-sinners-ryan-coogler-2025/

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Published: May 5, 2025 04:04

Part of me thinks Harry Potter is just a tragic example of Americans taking something seriously because it has a British accent. The other part is that in the year 1999, America discovered narrative serialization and anyone who did it was considered a…

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Published: May 4, 2025 20:47

Using the Penguin cover generator and randomly selected photos from my desktop to write my next opus

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Published: May 4, 2025 18:21

My speech tic is "honestly" or "bluntly" or "to be honest," just because I've been told millions of times over my life that I'm too blunt or direct and I want to prepare people in advance, but now I delete it from my correspondence because I've learned…

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Published: May 4, 2025 15:28

I'm glad that masculinity article is being received well, even if I did have to write a million horrible Medium posts and/or live through a fascist resurgence to get to the point where I could put my point across.

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Published: May 3, 2025 23:58

"What?? That's Tom Wambsgans! This lady's gotta be more respectful!" -- Brian is in the other room watching a movie he just now found out about, 2005's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

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Published: May 3, 2025 20:00

I'm really glad there ARE trans men who want to teach cis men how to embody their gender healthily because my book would just be entitled "TELL YOUR SON TO STOP BEING A DICK"

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Published: May 3, 2025 19:53

I can think of a significant demographic of boys who DID receive the message "don't be a boy" growing up and they are overwhelmingly not voting for Trump [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 3, 2025 12:16

Babe, every seminary entrance is a gay lobby [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 2, 2025 23:05

Femininity still doing numbers btw

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Published: May 2, 2025 22:07

In the year 2018, the Elders decided that adolescence would be a confusing and uncertain time, full of self-doubt and sexual anxiety. It had never been thus for any generation in history, and so, to prevent too sudden a change, a compromise was reached:…

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Published: May 2, 2025 21:55

"Being a teenage man" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 2, 2025 16:48

Sure, this seems insensitive, but when you realize this woman is actually an ambulance with a fetish for human men, it makes a lot more sense [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 2, 2025 14:57

Perhaps you have not yet realized that MONDAY, May 5, is the final order cut-off for DC Pride 2025. Perhaps this skeet will be the one that enlightens you! Come read about the giant queer comic we did, then ask your comic shop to save you a copy:…

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Published: May 2, 2025 14:25

My kid got really embarrassed for me when I pulled my hair back, because "boys don't usually wear ponytails," and I had to explain to her that this is just the universal experience of having a Dad with a ponytail

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Published: May 2, 2025 14:15

ICYMI: "Masculinity!" Is it Man's eternal essence? A euphemism for "patriarchy?" A scam to sell shaving products? (It's definitely that last one, actually.) I got to talk to trans feminists Talia Bhatt, Raewyn Connell and Thomas Page McBee about what it…

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Published: May 1, 2025 22:12

My father always used to say "they can't beat you as long as you've still got your sense of humor," which is one of many things he told me that are demonstrably untrue and, actually, sort of ruined my life

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Published: May 1, 2025 19:58

I think the best "masculinity" writing is typically trying to do feminism without actually calling itself feminist, or citing any feminist scholarship, and the worst of it is recycled MRA stuff that claims men are incapable of not abusing women because…

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Published: May 1, 2025 19:07

At the risk of beating a dead horse, three out of five citations come from his fucking Substack [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 1, 2025 18:48

This month, at Xtra: Now that we've all decided fascism is necessary because it's "masculine" (???) (!!!!) I decided to talk to some trans feminists about what they think "masculinity" is, and how men's gender insecurity gets manipulated toward fascist…

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Published: May 1, 2025 15:23

~mAsCuLine!~

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Published: April 30, 2025 22:27

CHILD has a friend who goes to Sunday school, and she doesn't get it, so she asked if I could help out by "showing her a short clip of Jesus."

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Published: April 30, 2025 19:45

Pokemon-ass animal [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 30, 2025 18:12

IMO: Mass harassment campaigns depend on their target being abrasive, or digging in under pressure (which most folks do instinctively), or just being unpleasant and fucked up. We shouldn't reject those campaigns because the victims are likable, or even…

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Published: April 30, 2025 17:07

Imagine you are a 23-year-old man living in the year 2016. Hunted... despised... living like an animal. But you will show the world that you can be its MASTER. You will perfect your OWN race of people. A race of atomic supermen which will conquer the…

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Published: April 30, 2025 02:17

SINNERS is perhaps the first movie I've seen to recognize the deep, supernatural evil of Irish step dancing

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Published: April 29, 2025 21:14

I get why people are freaking out, but this is the logical extension of a worldview that demands things go Back To How They Were, and that Nothing Ever Change because Change is Scary [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 29, 2025 13:21

"Talking to strangers in public" was fun and all, but Bluesky has yet to approach this level of greatness and I doubt it ever will

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Published: April 28, 2025 21:25

Current Mood: Menaced By A Bald Eagle Who Lives In The Trash (from this book! Get it!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]