Manly Unmanly Men Acting Unmanly to Prove Manliness
And here, Neiwert — who performatively redefines masculinity as that which talks incessantly about how it would never talk incessantly about masculinity (much less engage in any of its gendered conspicuous consumption). Those who refer to masculinity without the requisite disclaimers about how it is unmasculine to refer to masculinity can lay no claim to that real masculinity — which evidently comes from recognizing that real masculinity is seldom pointed out by really masculine people, unless they are pointing it out to show how pointing it out is unmasculine.
Which, in turn, makes them masculine for the effort.
Sweet Baby Jeebus, WTF? That Jeffy is possibly the most brilliant semiotician running naked ’round here is one thing, but “performatively”?
Where’s the golden cock ring?
What a stupid discussion. It’s women who ultimately judge masculinity.
Which is undoubtedly why Neiwert feels qualified to do so.
That’s right. I went there.
Like you’d end up anywhere else. Hell, you probably own their parking lot.
The comments over at that blog are pretty funny.
Neiwert makes me so mad I could just stamp my feet and scream!
Now don’t you dare!
Deliver me from all this idiocy….consider the source of all this deep analysis.
This is what happens when all of the bravado over “defending the 9/11 legend” against the “terrorists” and the evil leftists wears off, and all the little man-crushes for such well-hung masters of the universe like Jack Bauer, Mitt Romney, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Fred Thompson fade into the mists of time.
In short, you’re nothing but a bunch of faggots just like everyone else.
Jack Bauer once killed the entire Ottoman Empire and would have traveled back in time to do it to the Romans but THERE WAS NO TIME LEFT!”