“Have you seen the Dockers ads?” someone asked me recently at a conference, after I told them I write about masculinity. “A friend told me he liked those ads, because he is so unsure of what it means to ‘be a man’ right now. Everything has changed. There are no icons pointing men where to [...]
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Masculinity Icons: Happy Birthday, James Dean
Today, February 8th, James Dean was born in 1931. I’m working on a piece for Radical Masculinity about masculinity icons, particularly American icons (though I do have some plans to explore masculinity in other places too, in other columns). James Dean comes up frequently as an icon, both as a traditional icon of American masculinity [...]
