Male sensitivity and education is returning to culture, after a long Bush cowboy dumbing down due to professional sports and right wing politicos. The Rush's, the Tucker's, Scarboroughs ect. don't like it. I think it is great..Anderson Cooper is in the lead, and women love him the way they love Obama being gentle. Arnold the terminator, Rambo, Mike Tyson and Mel Gibson had their day, now it's time for a change.

Sorry Charlie: I don't seee any evidence at all that Male sensitivity and education, yet even good manners are returning to U.S. Culture.
Indeed I don't think that culture is returning to American culture especially after Bush and his liberation of torture and genocide as a modus operandi in diplomacy. I found it especially conclusive for me that I would not support Clinton that she was likened to a battering ram like Bush.

To liken uncivility, a lack of honor, cruelty, stupidity as qualities wanting in a U.S.leader , jumpsuit or not, left me ashamed to be an American. The likening of Pbama to JFK , is among other things one of the apt matters of comparison.

You have to remember that those rednecks who vote Republican are also stupid dolts, and their level of admiration for masculinity climbs with how ,much a person resembles a prize Hog in intelect.

I don't know why this ditz ;Blaze, picked things that Maureeen Dowd out of context. As far as I know Dowd is very liberal and an Obama supporter, although she woun't spare her humor on anyone.

I agree that Anderson is like Obama and JFK .
I'm not sure that either more women or men like that well mannered a man better. Some people are just getting tuned in to the fact that hatred and violence are not an answer to anything. They are certainly why the whole world hates us. I think that there may be enough people left who trust in inteligence and not brutality.

Frankly, American culture has come to resemble that of imperial Rome when to be Roman was to be human, anything and anyone not Roman was of value mostly for what they could provide Rome.

Alex's point, as I understood it, was not so much to question the

"…the more feminine management style of her male rival."

but rather, as he puts it,

"I'm tracking those who conflate gender and sexuality, or, more accurately, working within a cultural context that already conflates gender and sexuality, so any insults against women, faggots, homosexuals, prissy-boys, metrosexuals, drag queens, trans-folk, etc. that make fun of them for not following gender rules or not being masculine enough are insults towards me.

It's the same-shish kebab, and that's why I entitled the post "Obama's so gay." It's supposed to be like "That's so gay" when referring to ideas or inanimate objects – no one is actually talking about those things' sexuality, it's just meant as an insult and to police gender"

He gives the following personal anectdote to illustrate:

"What I was trying to do is follow insults directed his way along the lines of femininity, prissiness, faggotry, pansy-ness, etc. When I was in fourth grade, my family moved to a small town in Indiana from a larger suburb of Milwaukee. For the first time in my life, I was starting to be called a "faggot" and "gay." At age 9, I didn't have any idea what that meant to be homosexual or have sex with men or anything else related to actually being gay, and neither did my classmates. To them, it was an insult, a way of attacking someone with the language of homophobia that was mainly meant to marginalize me and to police the gender of everyone else in our class.

That's what I'm talking about."

It's about the much bigger picture. Consider: Obama may end up looking every bit the school boy next to McCain's War Hero image. And this is entirely due to our erroneus misconceptions about masculinity. Alex makes a very good point about the media's misinterpreation here.

He's doing a great job!

Rob; That was a mouthful: The fact that the U.S. has been engaged in the project of empire building is an Understatement.
Copntrary to the precautions of the Constitution, we have been in the greatest imperialist venture in History. The problem with that is that like Rome we may unravel, first as a Dictatorship and then as trash.