marketing of masculinity

dorian corey is such a hero

"After Corey's death, the mummified body of Robert Worley (aka Robert Wells), was found in Corey's belongings with a gunshot wound to the head."

I want to know more about that but can only read the first page of the citation!!!! Who has the goods?

The extent of my urban farming is herbs on the balcony and six months of Saturdays working on a farmer's market stall, but I like doing those things. In the suburb where I grew up, everyone had gardens with at least beans and tomatoes growing in them. I also hate with a passion anything you could label YARD WORK, having been press-ganged into doing a ton of it for my mom as a teenager, but if I had my own garden I might feel differently.

"After Corey's death, the mummified body of Robert Worley (aka Robert Wells), was found in Corey's belongings with a gunshot wound to the head."

― The Black Keys - white boys can still throw down (crüt), Tuesday, June 22, 2010 8:55 PM (9 minutes ago)

haha i knew this, but did you read about the note left with the body? I can hear it read in her voice.

I grew up pretty much in a suburb (also in ef ell aye) with just my mom and our yard was always a mess. Our backyard especially was really overgrown and there was this huge bamboo tree taking over everything. It was a great place to play and I'm pretty sure I learned to love weeds and bugs back there.

In my dad's neighborhood everyone's lawn was way way manicured. All the kids in his neighborhood would dig huge holes in all the cul-de-sacs, destroying everything. I love gardening because any activity involving crouching and digging in the dirt is fun to me. My favorite part is squeezing the roots.

I once had this really ridiculous summer job planting restorative wetland plants along lake and river beds and it was soooo hard but it didn't make me hate yard work.

big loose compost heaps are the best. Gawd, having a semi office job is what makes me want to be outside and dirty when I'm not working. I guess because yard work was always presented to me as a leisure activity (except for that one job, but we were saving the environment!) it still feels leisurely to me.

wow that was longer than I meant for it to be.

and less coherent?

I also hate with a passion anything you could label YARD WORK, having been press-ganged into doing a ton of it for my mom as a teenager, but if I had my own garden I might feel differently.

― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Tuesday, June 22, 2010 4:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

totally---secretly love doing "chores," unless they're actual chores, prescribed by someone else.

also: virtually every "crafty" trend i've even mentioned in passing to my mom, she can locate somewhere in the 70s. really sort of amazed that anyone (except 20 yo hipsters) think they're reinventing the wheel when they get stoned and try and reinvent the wheel

well, were these "crafty" trends trendy in the 80s and 90s? i guess that's my real question.

Next up: macrame and decoupage.

Man, I read some quote that was all "these young new women think they're doing something special and revolutionary by picking up needles and yarn and making themselves an angora toque, but really" from like the 1920s.

just wait 'til kilns make a return

HA! My cousin installed a state of the art kiln and turned her garage into a pottery about five years ago.

Crafts my mother did in the '70s: dried flower arrangements in baskets; cornucopia-type arrangements in baskets complete with varnished challah loaf and many, many dried gourds; wreaths; crocheting innumerable Afghans (besides the dogs, this is the reason ladies of a certain demographic can locate Afghanistan on maps); shell collections in lamp bases; arrangement of cattails and other dried marsh grasses in wicker baskets; God's Eyes; macramé; limited sewing of clothes; making jam out of a tree full of crab apples/the grapes on my aunt's trellis; needlepoint; rug hooking - but never, ever knitting. Most of those crafts make me want to stab my eyes out and there is a wicker ban in this apartment.

The only crafty thing I ever did in the '80s was to make Jackson Pollock-style sweatshirts and t-shirts using acrylic paint flicked onto plain tops.

i did hella rug hooking and cross stitch in the 80s, but i was a child

has this been posted yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oQ4hjQ_9Bc

totally---secretly love doing "chores," unless they're actual chores, prescribed by someone else.

^^this

I love the fact that a thread called "Marketing of Masculinity" is now all about knitting and sewing.

how can we best market knitting & sewing to men?

sharp objects?

my sewing machine has more horsepower than your sewing machine

sew easy a caveman could do it

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/475949396_d22244c595.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/341792051_2bc38f8e02.jpg

goatse, that last one

how's this for a masculine look - the sweater's hand-made by this boy's great-aunt:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4672733796_bee5fce3f6_b.jpg

eat your heart out, hipster knitters

i dunno about masculine, but it's certainly awesome

My kid in a sweatervest that was knitted for me as a child by my Godmother's mother:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs429.snc3/24717_407929428782_556118782_5017459_69855_n.jpg

awww
That is a great vest that definitely looks homemade. No one sells garments made of variegated yarn. It's a dead giveaway that it was gifted by a crafty relative.

He looks a lot happier to be wearing it than the kid in Tracer's photo.

they're both beautiful!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/25/the-stupidest-mens-produc_n_625532.html

That actually isn't very funny, sorry.

wow, didn't see this thread had a massive bump! everyone otm, especially Tiarnan who is imo near-unimpeachable on gender/gay issues

the bud light handbag one is my least favorite commercial of all time

even tho there's a slight homophobic undercurrent ("your pants are too tight!") to it, i think the one of bros zinging bros is actually an acceptable entry into the "marketing of masculinity" canon -- forget which beer it's for tho

always wonder how the women in these commercials feel -- if it's worse or equal to paying your rent by porn -- like having to be the chick in the bud light one where you find out that a dude would legit throw you off a cliff before he threw his beer off the cliff -- i know it's acting but still

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDC76D9l94

(...)

What is the piece of music during the lolwomen part?

haha that was my first question too

REFUSED PARTY PROGRAMME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phv_ARrphac

that Sewing For Men and Boys is th emost horrifying thing I've seen all week. The black guy's in an eighties suit, the guy in the middle is rockin' it like it's 1976, and the boy upfront is Lord Byron.

My problem is, how do I convince my bf to go with me to see that movie without making him suspicious that it's all for 15 minutes of Statham screen time.

apparently that trailer is fan-made : /

when your collection of tough guys features someone called 'Randy Couture' you're surely doin it rong?

My boss just forwarded this to the entire department...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

"I'm on a horse"

^^^^^granted, though, this is actually genuinely laugh out loud funny. (at least to 4 IT workers in a basement.) But is it the kind of advert this thread describes, or is it a pisstake of the kind of advert (or is it both a pisstake and also an ad playing on the same fears.)? I'm confused.

both

yeah, i think

(or is it both a pisstake and also an ad playing on the same fears

this.

a pisstake ad is never just a pisstake ad