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This is the first in a series of videos exploring what Steven Universe has to say about men, boys and masculinity. This episode covers representations of emotional expression, and highlights the ways in which crying, affection and fear are framed on the show. Support this video series on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/popdetective ABOUT THE PROJECT The Pop…
Had there been a male contraceptive pill in 1976, I probably wouldn’t be here to write this. That was the year when, after my mum–may she rest in peace–had been on the pill for 12 years, health worries made her doctor tell her to come off it. “She said to the doctor, ‘I’ll get pregnant’,”…
The award-winning Rory Duffy says Americans, long accustomed to lower-priced made-to-measure menswear, are blind to the beauties of bespoke clothing. If all was as it should be in the world, Rory Duffy, 33, a lanky fifth generation master tailor from County Monaghan, Ireland, would be celebrated as the finest tailor in New York City, draping…
Pokémon Go, the addictive game that makes users walk around their neighborhoods to catch Pokémon, already has been installed on phones more often than Tinder. And it turns out that the ’90s nostalgia fest is a pretty good dating app by itself. Pokémon Go combines the randomness of meeting people in a bar, but adds…
The elderly lady was part of a group visit to Nuremberg’s Neues Museum, where the work is displayed. If the museum didn’t want people to follow the artist’s instructions, they should put up a sign to make that clear, she told police. Eva Kraus, the museum director, said the damage was not permanent and would…
Can I trust you? – Post and Courier. Source: Can I trust you? – Post and Courier
It was only a couple of decades ago, before WiFi or the static death shriek of dial-up modems, that fetishes were hard-won secrets. The porno most of us stumbled across in our formative pubescence – a Playboy left on a rural Greyhound bus, or a waterlogged bodice-ripper in a back-alley dumpster – was all hard…
Natalie Portman is on the cover of T Magazine‘s new summer entertainment issue promoting her directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness, an adaptation of Israeli author Amos Oz’s best-selling memoir about his childhood in Jerusalem in the last years of the British mandate. The pictures are gorgeous, but we’re equally intrigued the accompanying feature: a…
Pour scorn elsewhere. / Joanna Slodownik Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the backdrop for a modern mania for clean eating, healthy living, personal productivity, and “radical self-love”—the insistence that, in spite of all evidence to the…
Last week, a corner of the internet went 100 percent gorillashit over a tweet comparing Taylor Swift’s vagina to a messy ham sandwich. And why shouldn’t it? It is gold-standard content, delightfully shocking and utterly insane. Several times that day, I returned to the tweet, pleasantly agog. But other people saw something more sinister in…