Real Men

Catherynne Valente recently posted two essays about gender issues, both of which are worth reading.1

"If you watch these ads, and mainstream sitcoms, you see this place. This place where men and women can barely stand each other long enough to have mutually unfulfilling sex and procreate. Where women are the sole source of everything irritating and wrong in a man's life, plus she's never hot enough, plus you have to, like, interact with her sometimes."

It's gotten me thinking about masculinity ...