I was a hooker this weekend
Photography exhibit of hypermasculine gay men by Blake Little: The Company of Men.
"I...wanted to show a particular type of masculine gay male that I appreciated and related to but that I did not see photographed anywhere else; an alternative to stereotypes or what is usually seen as the physical ideal of a man in the mainstream."Sometimes I wonder if the gays don't typically shoot for extremes after coming out and experiencing a bit gay life: extreme flamey, extreme butch, extreme muscles, extreme fashion, and so on. Perhaps this is a way to flag each other for the purposes of recognition in a predominantly mainstream heterosexual society.
Study suggests our political views may be based on physical responses to external stimuli:
The research, published in the journal Science, indicates that people who are sensitive to fear or threat are likely to support a right wing agenda. Those who perceived less danger in a series of images and sounds were more inclined to support liberal policies.In other words, shocking imagery and fear tactics help guide the vote of a particular group of voters, a campaign tactic that continues to succeed.
Woofsters Seann Scott and Paul Rudd are co-starring in a new film. I'll probably go see it even though I can't think of a good Seann Scott movie, I always pay money to see them. I guess I'm succeptible to external stimulus and hypermasculine appeal in cinema marketing.
This weekend I played in a fun match in which I got to play a new position called hooker. The hooker is nestled deep within a scrum and is in charge of helping to guide the ball out the back end of a scrum to the scrumhalf. It's technically difficult and often painful, as you're in the front of the scrum that butts up against the opposing scrum, which contains the weight of 8 big guys up against you. Today my shoulders ache. It was kind of fun, and there's room for improvement in the position.
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SWS is okay, but personally I'm all about Paul Rudd.
Read about the politics/fear study. Kind of makes sense, considering social conservatives always seem to want Big Daddy to protect and control them. Or maybe they're just closeted pig bottoms.
Ha - hypermasculine. That would imply something about their masculinity. All that exhibit showcases is male drag. We both know people in the exhibition, and hypermasculine they are not - steroided, yes, but masculine, no. Not that there's anything wrong with that. And just because you have on a pair of rugby shorts doesn't make you masculine, either, as we both well know, too.
For the love of God...where do I get #4's (Jimmy, Vacaville, CA) phone number???
HA HA. Let me get this right. Your new rugby position effectively makes you a SPHINCTER MUSCLE? Your only job is to make sure the turd swooshes out the correct end? OMG. That's a dirty job, but someone has to do it I guess. :)
Wow! - Wolfgang from Portland, OR (Blake Little
The Company of Men - exhibit) - He gave me a most memorable massage while I was there a couple of years ago. :)
Yeah, there's a lot of juice in that exhibit, that's for sure. I'm guessing a photo exhibit of truly natural men would be on the average about 50 pounds lighter. Ask their kidneys and livers in a few years if it was worth the look.
Brett: I'm was more of a prostate than a sphincter. The sphincter is #8.
Trusting statistics off the BBC is like expecting a hooker to not stab you.
What a coincidence! I was a hooker this weekend too!
Wait... were you talking about rugby again?
I looked through the exhibit - I'll have one of everything with a side of beer!!
I used to play that position in high school. Watch yourself if the scrum collapses, you could get REALLY hurt, dude.
"17 x 22" images in editions of 7 start at $1250."
or you could get a Bear411 membership for free.
i went to the show "in the company of men" yesterday (it's art under the bridge this rainy weekend in brooklyn) and i think the photographs are quite stunning and have much more impact than the web reproductions. the quality of the prints is impeccable. my only disappointment is that there was only one large scale print - otherwise all the prints were of standard size. i felt the over-sized print helped accentuate the theme.