DEAN ARRINDELL

New father. Moved from NYC to the suburbs. Write about masculinity, race, politics, American culture and pop culture.. and a bit of Britain, too.
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Just bought this. Can’t wait to dive in. #DreamsFromMyFather (Taken with instagram)

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Not only did the racism in this segment offend me as a human being, an American and a black man, but also as someone in an interracial marriage with a mixed-race child. I know racism exists and I also know most people aren’t like this. It bothered me, though, that the two women at the end of the segment were bold and ignorant enough to say what they said to strangers, and then defend it on-camera.

jessbennett:

huffingtonpostwomen:

Madhouse Pants Label Tells Men Laundry Is A Woman’s Job

We’ve come up with 8 messages we’d far rather see on the laundry label of said trousers.

Snap.

I am glad to see Lady Gaga and Oprah combating bullying at Harvard. It would have been nice to see them in Harlem.
Cultures that put all “honour” in the purity of “their” women – and keep women weak – are actually setting them up as targets. An insistence on “purity” is just the other side of the coin of insisting on sexually servicing other men. In both cases, the body of a woman exists in the battlefield of male control.
Sexual Violence Against Women Is The Result Of The Cult Of Masculinity” by Gloria Steinem and Lauren Wolfe

emptyage:

@RickSantorum Well then I look forward to being reimbursed for any of my tax dollars that funded the Iraq War.

— Gina Marie (@ginambakkun) February 17, 2012

(via soupsoup)

The truest measure of a man, indeed of a person, is not whom he lies down with but what he stands up for.
“Real Men and Pink Suits” by Charles Blow.

The family that made interracial marriage legal. Richard and Mildred Loving with their children Peggy, Donald and Sidney. (via Washington Post)

Conservative comedian Brad Stine and his stand-up routine “Political Correctness & The Wussification Of America” at CPAC. Notice how in his eyes - and presumably in the eyes of those cheering - masculinity and toughness can’t co-exist with safety and teamwork. (h/t Mediaite).