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Back off, masculinity patrol

Mark Malaby and Benson Green (Ball State): Playing in the Fields of Desire: Hegemonic Masculinity in Live Combat LARPS. Back off, masculinity patrol: Decades after women were allowed to wear pants and play sports, the culture is finally expanding its definition of masculinity. A review of The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys by David Benatar. Are men who don't want to be men really necessary? A review of The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family by Liza Mundy. Who wears the pants in this economy? Welcome to the new middle-class matriarchy. Masculinity and mass violence: Elizabeth Drescher on the “intimate enemy” we refuse to name. A review of The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin (and more and more and more). A review of Enlisting Masculinity: The Construction of Gender in U.S. Military Recruiting Advertising During the All-Volunteer Force by Melissa Brown. From Ms. Magazine blog, is Ryan Gosling a feminist? Kaylia Payne on why we need to avoid feminist men. (Re)creating multiple masculinities: A look at Hamish Crocket’s ultimate frisbee. Here is a photo history of male affection.