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The lads’ shaved haircuts, fitted fashion, muscled bodies, exposed underwear, Tyneside flats, and Northern accents, signify a specific working class identity from North East England. In the 2000s these lads might’ve been called chavs, and in the 2010s they would’ve evoked the US reality TV series Jersey Shore or its British off-shoot Geordie Shore, and TV critics noted the clear social class implications. One of the lads in California is from Uttoxoter in Staffs and he has loads of mates still from midlands from them days. Man up, boys don’t cry, toughen up. For Yorkshire-born artist Corbin Shaw, this stuffy rhetoric was all too common in the male heavy-environments he grew up in: football pitches, boxing gyms, his dad’s metal fabrication workplace. Places where machismo overshadows the need to open up, get talking and have acry on your pal’s shoulder from time-to-time.

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Let the straight men kiss, I say, and let anyone access silly macho hunky gender performance. We’re not going to police their identity. Humphreys and Ward believe straight MSM when they say they aren’t closet cases in denial. These are straight men living straight lives who do Stuff with men for whatever reason. Hard Lads’ ending sequence tries to embody this sentimental campy love. After the main lad collapses for the 7th time, he gets buried in 69 chairs, and lays there on the ground, longer than usual. Lourie, who started Meat in 2010, said that he was "tired of the body shaming that goes on within the gay community." His aim is to "celebrate the bodies of 'ordinary gay men."men who have sex with men (MSM) define sex by social context rather than the sexual activity involved. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by Dutch renaissance painter Bruegel (or some other painter, who cares) emphasizes the humiliation of Icarus’ failed ambition. Viewers familiar with the myth will first look for Icarus in the sky — only to eventually locate Icarus awkwardly drowning in the ocean near the bottom-right corner. No one in the painting gives a shit about Icarus. Not only was Icarus foolish, but no one was even recording him on video! Gay poet W. H. Auden famously saw this painting in a museum and felt moved to drag / lament Icarus:

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Hard Lads recreates the main lad’s exaggerated pre-game gestures like smoking a cigarette, swigging a bottle, and manly kissing. Each of these actions can be endlessly paused, repeated, interrupted, and failed. Smoking for too long can cause a coughing fit, liquor can be spilled wastefully onto the ground, and a manly fist bump of a kiss can turn into a hot makeout session. In 2015, a phone video of young, muscular White British men hitting each other with a chair went viral. Why make a game about this meme now? Some might characterize my output derisively as “meme games”— which is fine — but personally, I’ve tried to avoid doing it on purpose. First, my games themselves strive to be the original meme, and not merely a fan reproduction. Second, many memes are steeped in internet gamer culture, the only circle jerk I want to avoid.London-based zine-maker Sam Harris’ approach to documenting the male-dominated culture he grew up in takes amore conceptual approach. His zine, Pure Filth, features contributors like provocative duo Gilbert &George, contemporary artist Joe Sweeney (whose latest exhibition focused on machoism within the gay community) and the ever-controversial Young British Artists, The Chapman Brothers.

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The rain of chairs is also a succinct way to show some sympathy, because when one lad gets hit by a chair, we all get buried in chairs. It’s about solidarity. But with who? Practically everyone in this video has failed this public test of masculinity. Which is why I also made this game’s core chair interactions feel silly, too. Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation – not judgment. Camp is generous. It wants to enjoy [… and] it doesn’t sneer at someone who succeeds in being seriously dramatic. What it does is to find the success in certain passionate failures. The purpose of those traps is to hide a third way: an intersectional history of solidarity, especially in the UK. In 1984, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) supported mineworker unions against Thatcher during the national strike, and in turn, miners supported gay rights movements and pushed against the 1988 anti-gay law, Section 28. This was a political alliance forged long ago by our elders, proof that we can all organize together.

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I see myself as a pretty average looking-dude so I don't really see myself as a pin-up anything," Kang said."So I'm chuffed that I've had the good fortune of joining a long line of Meat magazine dudes alongside so many of my fellow Steelers. The Steelers has not only helped pave the way for inclusive rugby teams but also helped hanged perceptions about gay sportsmen." At the start of the video, the men kiss briefly and instinctively, as if they’ve done it before so many times. It’s a strong and surprising hook. Even if lad-on-lad kissing were a casual norm across the UK, I question whether it’d lead to less homophobia in society. Straight Men Being More Interesting doesn’t liberate gay people. Don’t enrich straightness and call it allyship!

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My in-game damage model is straight­forward: The main lad starts with 20 health, and each strike inflicts damage based on chair velocity, usually 5-15 damage. Kissing beforehand heals 5 health per smooch / 5 health per second of makeout time, up to 200% overheal.)

The article is based on areport by the Samaritans, and declared that ​ “macho attitudes to talking about problems mean men are denied the social support they need”. Further down, the statistics aren’t so dissimilar to those produced by The Priory Group four years ago. In 1999, it was reported that 12 men between the ages of 15 and 24 killed themselves per week, while asurvey of 1,400 men aged between 13 – 19 found ​ “67 per cent who had suicidal feelings said they had nowhere to turn for emotional help”. There’s two different game programming strategies here. Prevention prevents the game from breaking at all, while repair and maintenance assumes the game will break all the time. Prevention might seem more stable at first, but it’s actually very brittle because it requires flawlessness. Repair covers more edge cases because it assumes everything is broken all the time. It’s a big change to my coding style, but I believe a reparative approach provides the best of all worlds. Unique malfunctions make the player’s performance feel special and emergent, while not being so serious as to permanently break game progress. At ECW Hardcore Heaven 1994, a pro wrestler asked for a chair to smash on a fellow performer. Fans proceeded to give him many chairs, literally hundreds thrown onto the stage. This avalanche derailed the entire match. The staff begged the audience to stop, but the chairs just kept flying. It was a massive surreal breakdown in the laws of pro wrestling events. Among many queer moments in pro wrestling, this ranks among the queerest. Like many young men, McLeod felt the pressure of having to fit into aladdy mould he didn’t see himself fitting into, being queer and in astraight male-dominated school. His more recent work, like ashort film titled Understanding: Masculinity, features clips from apub with adeep-voiced narration playing over the top. Its contents are critical of the ​ “boys don’t cry” rhetoric which tend to plague school corridors and changing rooms.

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