“TRUE MEN” by Brian Shumway
Project Description:
Gender can be a perplexing thing. Despite being flexible and malleable, it defines and confines who we are and how we express ourselves, especially through behavior and dress. Men in particular are bound by the dictates of gender. To be a ‘real man,’ being manly and masculine (or at the very least not outwardly effeminate) are paramount. Expression of one’s manhood, especially in public, must remain within a narrow range of acceptable social norms. Little boys are conditioned as such from birth, almost as a universal absolute. But this ignores the full story of male identity. There is a large spectrum of male experience that is deemed off limits by popular society. The men in this portrait series fall outside traditional notions of manliness and masculinity. They possess an effeminate manner, dress, or look, a ‘girlishness’ that is as much a part of being male as weightlifting and football. They boldly embrace expressions of male identity which flaunt the confines of conventional conceptions of manhood and what it means to be a man.
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2012, the year of applying the word “hipster” to any twenty-something wearing clothes
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ehehe
speaks for itself
oh wow guys this blog is dead
hi
look at that guy on the left he is so photogenic i bet there is a stock photo of him laughing with a salad
fixed that for you
better
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Hit and Run
hit me and run me
or something
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How many Freudian analysts does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to change it, and the other to hold the penis.
LADDER.
I MEANT LADDER.
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yo, don’t diss simple lyrics in pop music.
faux-poeticism is the worst thing to ever happen to pop
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when someone gives me constructive criticism
my first reaction (in my head, of course) is usually along the lines of:
“shut the fuck up you don’t even know what you’re talking about you could never write like this this is fucking amazing you dumb fuck bitch cunt”
but then I realise they’re actually just trying to be helpful and I need to stop being such a defensive asshole over my writing
i wrote some shit today okay
this needs a lot of editing but eh it’s okay read it or whatever
Dennis Andrew Nilsen (born November 23, 1945) is a Scottish serial killer who lived in London. During a murderous spree lasting five years, he killed at least 15 men. Nilsen did not fit the standard profile of a serial killer. As a child he was repulsed by cruelty to animals. As an adult he worked to help the downtrodden at his job with the Manpower Service Commission. Even in his murders, Nilsen killed out of a grotesque form of love. He “killed for company.” Nilsen was a homosexual and experienced a series of failed relationships. In 1978, he picked up a boy in a pub and brought him back to his London apartment. Afraid the boy would leave him in the morning, Nilsen killed him in his sleep. He kept the body around his apartment for days, posing it bathing, eating dinner, watching T.V., sleeping in bed, and in other activities as though it was his boyfriend. This pattern continued, with Nilsen recruiting “companions” at local pubs, until a plumber found bones and rotten flesh in the apartment’s sewer system. Nilsen was sentenced to life in prison in 1983 after confessing to fifteen murders.
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