How much of your "gayness" are you willing to hide from the world because you don't think it's fashionable, or
fuckable? The anxiety to be valued by our masculinity is killing us--literally.
TOXIC MASCULINITY AND ME: The world pressures us to be the best men we can be, but what does that actually mean?
"The Policing of Viragos and Other '
Fuckable' Bodies: Virginity as Performance in Latin America." Allan et al., 191-231.
Envious Virgins and Adolescent Sexuality: The (Un)Importance of the Hymen in Virginity Studies
captured this dilemma in her skit "Last
Fuckable Day," which
GENDER SIDELINING AND THE PROBLEM OF UNACTIONABLE DISCRIMINATION
For example, the roboticist Kathleen Richardson, a cofounder of the "Campaign Against Sex Robots," believes that to make our bots femme and then
fuckable, as in so many sci-fi fantasies-atra-life, is to dehumanize women.
The year in sex
Comedy Central lost Jon Stewart and Key & Peele this year, so it's a good thing that Inside Amy Schumer solidified itself as one of the top comedy shows on TV, tackling gender inequality with "Last
Fuckable Day," which has more than 4.6 million YouTube views, and domestic violence with the Friday Night Lights parody "Football Town Nights" (having been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube).--Tim Baysinger
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The name says it all: All the Beasties ever wanted was to be loud, playful, rude, cool,
fuckable, and fun.
Real Deal
And crime fiction has produced some of the sexiest, most
fuckable women in the literary canon.
Writing crime
Samantha Jones, the deliciously intrepid maneater Cattrall played on "Sex and the City," would no doubt warm to any play that uses the word "
fuckable" in its opening minutes.
Whose Life Is it Anyway?
To black men, she's not a
fuckable woman; even the vaunted black penis cannot bridge the chasm between them ...
Critical race theory: Debra Dickerson argues it's time blacks stop worrying about what whites think of them
"When I first moved to Nashville," she recalled, "the first record exec I met said, `Well now, we just have to make this girl
fuckable.'" Rosanne resisted, and it paid off.
`Rules for changing the world'
Like old-fashioned drag queens, the vestidas go for the most real, the most curvaceous, the most
fuckable. However, those curves aren't just made of foam.
Where 'Gay' and 'Straight' Don't Suffice
Ask the immortal question posed by Dawn Steel, who used to run Columbia: "Are they
fuckable?" And these two absolutely are.
The new auteurs
I can't wait for the day when somebody on television who's still
fuckable is also openly gay--and he plays either some charismatic straight guy or a gay guy like me, who wears the same pair of jeans eight days in a row and likes to watch sports.
Chemistry lesson: in Adam & Steve, Craig Chester and Malcolm gets explore a screen romance grounded in the chemistry of two actual gay actors! Hollywood, are you getting this?
The women were like insects themselves,
fuckable insects, and in the time we spent mentally fondling their soulless, bouncy bodies I felt, for the first time, that Star Trek didn't consider me a person.
Beam Us Back, Scotty!
These darker themes, along with the tropical idylls, are explored in The Face of the Deep, Thomas Farber's just-published meditations on surfing and other immersions (even this Berkeley professor described tubing waves as "
fuckable" in galleys, a thought excised from the final book).
The Tribes of Palos Verdes