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...relatively recent trends in the Protestant church, particularly in its Evangelical wing. The first involves his tight focus on the relationship between Joseph and Jesus. The attendance in most U.S. churches skews female, provoking a search for strong masculine Biblical role models and ways to create church-based male bonding, especially between younger men and mentors. Joseph is the original Promise Keeper. Also, Jenkins sees a shift in even conservative Evangelical preaching from stringent exegesis, or analysis of text, to more free-ranging storytelling. "There are guys who can spend an hour just talking about one verse, and that happens...
...Schellhorn ’06, also of Cabot House, said that he and his friends participated in the tournament for the “love for the game, and love for each other.” Despite the wide publicity on House lists, the teams were very male-dominated. The official rules require at least four females to compete for each team, leaving several teams scrapping to find female players at the last minute. Jaqueline M. Rooney ’07 was one of just four women on her Lowell team. As a first time intramural player, Rooney said...
...characters’ psyches, giving the female figures a more substantiated human dimension than their Shakespearean counterparts. Unlike the Shakespearean play, “Desdemona” puts an empathetic focus an the unfortunate condition of these women, who have an inner potential that is beyond what their male-dominated world will allow...
...prefer not to associate with romance. Most boys, on the other hand, find grinding the preferred dance of choice. It requires little coordination and negates the possibility of—God forbid!—real conversation. As soon as Kanye starts requesting pre-nups, a pack of males, like Pavlovian predators, begin to peruse the room and claw at the nearest female. They then proceed to literally bruise pelvises with a sometimes circular, more often directionless, hip-knocking motion. And if you’re the taller of the pair—at 5’ 10?...
...stoke the fires from that first journey.Yet, the film’s much touted sex scenes are none too graphic; there is minimal nudity and very strategically placed lighting. But even the most innocuous of kisses and embraces shared by the duo go well beyond the average representation of male homosexual behavior in an American film. (At the very least, it was enough to scare off Gyllenhaal’s parents, who, he says, walked out halfway through a screening.)Gyllenhaal shrugs off the notion that these scenes with Ledger were particularly difficult compared to previous love scenes...