The Love Connection
by Charles Gustine on Friday, 17 February 2012
Happy belated Valentines Day, pop culture lovers!
Considering how many of you out there are anguished at/enamored with the idea of love, especially now judging by my Facebook and Twitter feeds, I figured what better time to jump in and comment on how romance is dealt with in pop-culture.
There’s not a lot of middle ground. We all know the story, the myth, of true love, of eternal love, of SOULMATES, and its hard to justify a middle-ground stance on it. It’s for you or it’s not you at all.
by Charles Gustine on Friday, 27 January 2012
When I began toying with a new running series about proverbial “chick-flicks” and “chick-lit” and the like, I debated calling the feature something coy and distancing like “Girl Talk.”
I wanted to talk about the pop culture my female friends were telling me about or making me watch, truly I did. But, by calling it “Girl Talk” and implying that I’d been “swindled” into it all unsuspectingly by girls - whether I’d in fact enjoyed it or not - I was allowing myself to maintain a safe distance without compromising my male gaze. Which is such a guy thing to do…
