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...writer Ron Simmons' contribution, entitled "Sexuality, Television and Death: A Black Gay Dialogue on Malcolm X" draws similarly surprising conclusions from Malcolm's ideas. In a subtle discussion, Riggs' and Simmons' pride in Malcolm is tempered by a disappointment in his celebration of a rigid definition of Black manhood. They criticize the ways in which his critique of racism remained rooted in repressive, conventional views on gender and sexuality. They speak of him as both a burden and an inspiration...
...said he hopes Americans will abandon the ethic "that would require everyone to put on a uniform no matter what, as a test of his manhood...
...ankle. "Since all these tattoos were covered by clothing," says Spindler, "they must have had an inner meaning for the man and not have had the function of identification for other tribes." Some scientists suggest that the designs might have been used to mark the passage from youth to manhood. One fact is certain: until this discovery, it was thought that tattooing originated 2,500 years later...
...Gore leaned against his orthopedic back pillow, drank bottled water and reflected on the human spirit and his newfound sense of self. How is it that the wooden-tongued policy wonk of 1988 has emerged as an introspective spokesman for the inner child, an icon of the new manhood? Says Gore simply: "I found the connection between my head and my heart...
...behavior has been explained away as a phase. For instance, teenagers sometimes experiment with both male and female partners on the way to establishing their sexual identity. Among Sambia Highlanders in Papua New Guinea, boys practice oral sex with one another as a formal rite of passage toward manhood and adult heterosexuality. Dual sexuality has also been seen as a pragmatic response, a way to fill a sexual need when passion is thwarted by culture and circumstance, such as imprisonment. Mixing between men and women before marriage is strictly limited in some Muslim societies...