By Liz Kinnamon The “sensitive guy” should be understood through the lens of what pop psychologists call emotional manipulation, and his proliferation is the result of two things: the rise of feminism and the rise of immaterial labor. At Cannes 2015, a crowd of hundreds competed for entry into a midnight screening of what was called "the…
Tag: Masculinity
Gendered Food Categories: Mythology, Men and Meat
by Amy Calvert In this post, I want to make use of Ferdinand de Saussure’s structuralist theory (later developed by Roland Barthes) to look at gendered food categories. I want to explore some of the linkages made between gender performance and food, specifically cultural connotations tying men and masculinity with meat. To do this, I…