Sing to me, o Muse, of fictional men who give us hope for the future of masculinity.
Mary Gaulke: Content strategist, feminist, theater enthusiast, nerd
Sing to me, o Muse, of fictional men who give us hope for the future of masculinity.
Both Jud and Trekkie are products of a culture that commodifies women and pathologizes the sexual frustration of men.
If women are commodities who go to the most deserving men, what does that say about men who never wed? About women who take sexual pleasure as something of their own? About our culture as a whole?
Art that inverts the traditional male gaze, that centers teen girls’ interests and sensibilities, is radical and powerful like nothing else out there.