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...more pressure now than in the past to conform to an impossible ideal. Ripped male bodies are used today to advertise everything that shapely female bodies advertise: not just fitness products but also dessert liqueurs, microwave ovens and luxury hotels. The authors of The Adonis Complex want guys to rebel against those images, or at least see them for what they are: a goal unattainable without drug...
Austria's electoral support of the Freedom Party and South Carolina's flying of the Confederate flag have led both to be vilified. This vilification has been successful, as Jorgen Haider has resigned and the rebel flag will soon be furled in Columbia...
...South Carolina since Jefferson Davis was president. It reared its ugly head in 1962 as a not-so-oblique protest to the Civil Rights movement. The flag was intended as a warning to integrationists. Other states used the flag as a similar threatening symbol: In 1956, Georgia adopted the rebel flag into its state flag to protest Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that integrated schools. The Confederate Flag does not fly in South Carolina to honor the bravery and honor of Old Dixie. It was hoisted as a slap in the face to the blacks...
...alive and well. The aging lead screecher of U.K. punk pioneers the Sex Pistols, Lydon still uses his old stage name and hasn't lost his sarcastic sneer--even if his spiky orange hair and Day-Glo togs make him look more like a Rugrat these days than a rebel. Lydon is ensconced in Nickelodeon's editing room finishing the second episode of Rotten Television, his new series for Nick's sister channel, VH1. A free-form zeitgeist diatribe, it has no script, a shoestring budget and zero structure. "What's the fun in having a format?" he asks, burping...
...Luke Perry. See ya De Niro. Gone are the days when the leather jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding, joint-smoking, potty-mouthed rebel was sexy. No one wants a bad boy anymore. Women, it seems, have traded in the "man" for the "boy"-the ultra-sensitive male, the girl's guy. What distinguishes a "boy" from a "man?" A boy is secure in his sexual ambiguity-he works in the mud by day, cooks and writes verse by night. A boy doesn't pose because he knows the attraction of his own feminine appeal. But do girls really want...