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Isn't He Lovely: Bare Down There and Everywhere Else
While mulling over the male quest for muscularity a few posts ago, I brought up the notion of the "sanitized ideal" that has recently become de rigueur for the mainstream masculine body image. We're...
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Isn't He Lovely: The Myth of the Superior Penis
As feminists, I think it's easy to forget that for all of the misrepresentations and misinformation delivered to us about what vulvas and vaginas "should" look like and how they "should" respond to...
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Isn't He Lovely: Male Body Image Standards Are "Virtually Non-Existent." Q&A...
Yashar Ali is the founder of The Current Conscience, which examines "politics and the personal, culture and relationship" from a progressive, feminist viewpoint. His writing has also been featured in...
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Isn't He Lovely: Do These Blue Jeans Make My Butt Look Gay?
For starters, this post title is a reference to a brief scene in Scary Movie—which I a) admittedly have never seen and b) admittedly never plan to see—where Shawn Wayans asks his pal whether his tank...
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Isn't He Lovely: The Sexist, Racist, Male Invention of Dieting
As Isn't He Lovely comes to a close this week, it seems appropriate to offer some historical insight into where and when the Western masculine body ideal emerged. But since I don't have the word count...
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