Category: Masculinity
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Rules of Adornment
I don’t own a lot of jewelry as a general rule (at least, not yet). It wasn’t something that I was overly confident in experimenting with in high school outside of a simple silver ring I used to wear on my pointer finger, so when I finally started to explore and look at what I…
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2020: Last Minute Gifts for the Modern Man
I know that we only have 6 days left until Christmas, but I figured that it wasn’t quite *too* late to write a quick little gift guide for the men in our lives. However, this isn’t the same sort of manly gift guide that a lot of other places will attempt to sell. I love…
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Masculinity + Rage
When I started this blog I titled it “Rewriting Masculinity” partly because of my interest in fashion (and making it more outwardly acceptable for men of all types to enjoy fashion) and partly because there’s a massive problem with the way that we define masculinity in the modern day. In the first couple posts I…
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On Cultivation
You know the phrase “fake it till ‘ya make it”? You know, that mantra for most 20 to 30-somethings that some days is the only way we get through the day without pulling out our hair (or dying it strange and wonderful colors)? It works. I remember once I had asked to play with the…
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Lord of the Rings Masculinity
So, a while ago, I was scrolling through Facebook – something that I’ve been trying to do less and less of late – when I saw a picture of a tweet that addressed something called “Lord of the Rings Masculinity”. I mean, any sort of reference to the greatest trilogy of books ever written and…
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Beginning to Revise the Rhetoric
“Fly, you fools.” – Gandalf, also known as Stormcrow I have the unique pleasure of attending a university that – for the vast majority of the student population – remains very well-dressed and externally confident. That’s not really who I’m intending to preach to with this particular post. I mean sure, confidence is not something…
Rewriting Masculinity 