Tag: Male

Flashback to the earlier part of this decade, when my husband went to a party and met my two exes-turned-friends for the first time: Dean* and Adam*. Brig had just broken up with his latest ex, a gorgeous blonde named Sasha*. Adam, at this point, had partied a bit too hard and was already out col...

Is there an ideal male body image, or are we all deceiving ourselves and our boys into thinking that there is and that it’s desirable? True, the Greeks depicted incredibly chiseled male bodies in their sculpture, and there is an excessive number of “muscle supplements” and mag...

Let’s talk about pandering, which is one of the favorite terms of disgruntled white male geeks, (at least the ones who loudly complain that they are being ignored in entertainment media. Note: They’re not entirely wrong.) What is pandering? How is it being done, what does it look li...

Nothing pisses me off more than when someone says, “I’m just not attracted to Asian men.” I’ve heard these words come out of seemingly bright and well-intentioned women’s mouths — women of all ethnicities, including Asian — and in the Bay Area, where over on...

Our body operates in 3D via polarity. This means that movement happens in time and space through the relationship of opposites. Tense, release. Open, close. Up, down. Left, right. Hard, soft. Negative, positive. Male, female. Etc. In traditional Chinese philosophy, these are referred to as &ld...

This experimental piece depicts a graphic instance of domestic abuse through an unfiltered stream of consciousness. I intended to transport the reader into the psychology of a traumatic moment, conveyed through vivid and visceral sensory details. The violence escalates rapidly, which may potentially...