Petromelancholia and the destructive, extractive masculinity that Stacy Alaimo calls "carbon masculinity" in her book Exposed have combined to generate a petro-populism which is, I hope, the last gasp of petroleum-based modernity, soon to implode by virtue of its own faulty premises and the hard-won wisdom of millennials and people of color, demographics who clearly did not vote for this.
A review of your collection in New York magazine states: "Anyone who's taken even a lazy stroll through the well-worn territory of destructive fictional masculinity — Hemingway, Carver, Faulkner, Roth, Cheever, Yates, Bolaño, et al. — will recognize the basic flora and fauna of Wells Tower's stories".
_A review of your collection in New York magazine states: "Anyone who's taken even a lazy stroll through the well-worn territory of destructive fictional masculinity — Hemingway, Carver, Faulkner, Roth, Cheever, Yates, Bolaño, et al. — will recognize the basic flora and fauna of Wells Tower's stories".
She discusses how Black boys are indoctrinated into destructive hegemonic masculinity from near birth and even those males who seek to liberate themselves from the strangle hold of this woman-hating misogynist ideology often fail due to societal consequences faced by those who dare reject patriarchy.
Without compassionate role models and mentors to show adolescent boys a different path a different way of what it really means to be a man—I fear they will continue to admire these destructive forms of masculinity.
In the case of River of Fundament, after nearly six hours, you are left with the very empty and reductive idea how the destructive power of masculinity is the mythic source of all creativity, and how this power is debased in the modern world.
I was bothered by the video because it reinforced destructive syntaxes of masculinity.
In providing a safe space for men to talk openly, the Eaton Foundation challenges rigid, destructive typecasts of masculinity.
The stubborn, lost-husband-refusing-to-ask-for-directions man might be a handy caricature, but it's also rooted in a very real, very destructive notion of masculinity.
