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A group of sweaty, beaten men stand menacingly in a dark basement. Brad Pitt stands in the middle of the group, not wearing a shirt, his abdominal muscles flexed, a cigarette in his mouth, and a trail of blood down his stomach as he looks down at the floor towards an unseen person.

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No Homo Sapiens: The Terrifying Truth of Male Fragility

November 27, 2017June 3, 2021

I love my male friends to pieces, but their group dynamics have been fascinating to observe over the years. If there’s anything I’ve found, it’s that when it comes to threats against their masculinity, straight cisgender men are so delicate it would be hilarious if it weren’t so horrifying.

Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light face right, looking worried or sad. Tambor plays a transgender woman with long greying hair and a red shawl, and Light plays a cisgender woman with short grey hair with bangs and a pair of dark glasses.

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Bromances and Disney Villains: Queerbaiting in Contemporary Media

November 4, 2017June 3, 2021

In September of 2016, Jeffrey Tambor was awarded the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his portrayal of Maura Pfefferman in Amazon’s Transparent. The show follows the self-absorbed and dysfunctional Pfefferman family through the lens of Tambor’s Maura after coming out to her family about identifying as a woman. It has…

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No Homo Sapiens: The Terrifying Truth of Male Fragility

Bromances and Disney Villains: Queerbaiting in Contemporary Media

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