The gym is a place where a hardened, isolating masculinity can be shed – along with our preconceptions about how we need to look or be in the world – in favour of something greater, something vulnerable and meaningful.
Jan 21, 2020
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Nov 13, 2019
The machismo misconception
By Ruth McHugh-DillonOn the imagined line between tough-talking macho ‘strongmen’ and benevolent ‘daggy dads’.
Aug 22, 2019
The fat flat father: Animated dads and shifting meanings of shape
By Ellen MullerHow these animated men simultaneously represent fatherhood and fatness – as well as how weight in general is treated as an ongoing plot device in these shows – mirrors the culture/time they originate from.
May 27, 2019
The hovering thumb: On mates I don’t call
By W. C. ScottI think I’ve become a man like this. It’s as if growing distanced is part of a prescription.
May 08, 2019
Your body, their money: Bears, Grindr and neoliberalism
By Cameron ColwellThere is a tendency to treat these issues as individual problems, but there is much value in thinking about how our desires are shaped by the society in which we live.
Feb 13, 2019
Dad bods, beer bellies and fatness: The body of Aussie masculinity
By Joel BurrowsWhy are some large men accepted in Australia, when others are still ridiculed?
Feb 04, 2019
Living in a shapeless limbo: On men neither fat nor thin
By Prem SylvesterI rarely see acknowledgment of the fact that it’s not just being fat or skinny that requires acceptance, but every interstitial space in the range of unique bodies we inhabit.