Tag: masculinity
How air guitar became a serious sport
Byrd McDaniel, Brown University
Advertised as the “greatest thing you’ve never seen,” the 2019 U.S. Air Guitar Championships will take place this summer.
Competitors from...
Super Bowl ads played it safe, but we can still challenge...
Dillon Thomas Browne, University of Waterloo
After this month’s online commotion about the #MeToo Gillette ad and a previous spot by Nike inspired by Black...
Razor burned: Why Gillette’s campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark
Alan Abitbol, University of Dayton
Gillette has launched a new marketing campaign, “The Best Men Can Be,” with an ad that has gone viral.
The ad...
I’ve spent years looking at what was actually in Playboy, and...
Carrie Pitzulo, Colorado State University
Over the nearly 70 years since Hugh Hefner, who died recently at the age of 91, laid out the first...
What it’s like to be gay and in a gang
Vanessa R. Panfil, Old Dominion University
There are many stereotypes of and assumptions about street gangs, just as there are many stereotypes and assumptions about...
Sinatra’s films shattered the postwar myth of the white American male
Karen McNally, London Metropolitan University
Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday on December 12 is being celebrated with all the requisite fanfare: Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary Sinatra:...
Sam Smith’s ambitious attempt to reshape the Bond song lands with...
Adrian Daub, Stanford University and Charles Kronengold, Stanford University
Like most James Bond fans, we couldn’t wait to hear the theme song for Spectre, the...
What happens to men who stay abstinent until marriage?
Sarah Diefendorf, University of Washington
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and his girlfriend, the singer Ciara, recently announced plans to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.
It...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
