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Samstag, 12. März 2016
Why You Should Play a Sport You Really Suck At
So when life hands me an opportunity to check my daily fitness box without swiping my key tag, I take it.
Mow a lawn? That’s a workout. Partake in a three-legged race? That counts, too. Complete a spirited pub crawl? Depending on the mileage, it might even get me off the hook for tomorrow’s sweat session.
You know what else you can add to the list? Broomball.
Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of the sport. I hadn’t either, but when NBC recently invited me to try it out on an episode of 1st Look, I jumped at the chance.
Broomball is silly, but simple: You run around wearing tennis shoes on ice, flailing clumsily and swatting at a ball with a plastic paddle that sort of looks like a broom.
It’s a lot like hockey, but with twice as many wipeouts. See for yourself:
An hour into my first broomball game, I was sweating so much that steam was rising off of my body. The next day, my glutes and obliques were wrecked, as were the muscles supporting my lower back.
The aches were so glorious, I realized I should be trying more new sports I know nothing about—and so should you. Here’s why:
1. You’ll grow muscle faster.
It’s not that broomball is a more efficient workout than CrossFit. It has the advantage of putting you off balance, sure. But so do surfing, skateboarding, and those stupid hoverboard things.
I was sore simply because I was doing something new.
“Whenever you try a new sport or exercise, you stress your muscles in a way that they are not used to,” says Joel Martin, Ph.D., an assistant professor of kinesiology at George Mason University.
You’re not just engaging different body parts—your muscles are physically contracting in unique ways. You’re also moving at different speeds and directions to meet the demands of the sport.
As you improve, your muscles will adapt. That’s good if your goal is to impress women with your superior athleticism. But if you’re trying to improve your fitness, adaptation actually undermines your progress.
“If your main reason for playing a sport is to get in shape, you almost want to avoid becoming too proficient,” says Martin. Once your muscles learn to keep up, you begin burning fewer calories with each new match.
2. You’ll build brainpower.
Do you remember the first time you played volleyball? Odds are you embarrassed yourself. Every ball that came to you ended up in the net or out of bounds.
But your humiliation wasn’t a waste: You were nurturing new brain cells. In one study, researchers scanned the brains of 40 people, then asked them to practice learning a new motor skill for 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week.
In this case, the subjects were learning to juggle. After six weeks of training and a 4-week wash-out period, the researchers looked at the participants’ brains once again. Grey matter in their dorsal parietal and primary motor cortexes was measurably thicker.
Related: 6 Easy Fixes You Can Do Today to Build Your Brainpower
By the end of the study, people with the most grey matter at the start also turned out to be the best jugglers. It’s a reinforcing loop: Grey matter helps you learn motor skills faster, and learning motor skills helps you build more grey matter.
So the more time you spend learning tennis, skateboarding, and air hockey, the quicker you’ll pick up seemingly unrelated activities, like soccer, snowboarding, and fly fishing.
3. You’ll break out of a fitness funk.
There’s no reason you should dread your workouts. You should look forward to them, and you should notice appreciable gains.
If you’re not excited to break a sweat, you may just need some novelty.
“Way too many people go to the gym and do the same routine over and over for years,” says Martin. “It’s more effective to make systematic changes to your workout routine.”
These changes, Martin says, can be quantitative or qualitative: You can add more reps or weight to your old routine (that’s a quantitative change), or opt for a complete workout overhaul (a qualitative change).
“Many college strength and conditioning coaches will program 4-to 6-week blocks to focus on different aspects of fitness: strength, power, hypertrophy, endurance, and so on,” he says. That’s how their athletes avoid fitness plateaus.
Think about that. What if, after every 4 to 6 weeks in the gym, you took a 4- to 6-week hiatus to focus on a new sport?
It could be rock climbing, ultimate Frisbee, or even broomball. Doesn’t matter. You’d likely stay motivated, and overall, you’d be more fit.
The only downside is that you have to be the guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing. Think you can handle that?
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New York man's murder conviction vacated after 25 years
NEW YORK – A 49-year-old New York man took his first steps as a free man in more than two decades on Thursday after a judge vacated his 1991 murder conviction as part of the Brooklyn district attorney’s review of dozens of decades-old cases considered questionable.
Andre Hatchett, convicted of murdering a woman in a Brooklyn playground in 1991, was released on the recommendation of District Attorney Ken Thompson after a court hearing.
“After a thorough and fair review of this case by my Conviction Review Unit, I’ve concluded that, in the interest of justice, Andre Hatchett’s murder conviction should not stand and that he should be released from custody immediately,” Thompson said in a statement.
During his campaign for district attorney in 2013, Thompson promised to set up the unit to review questionable convictions, many of them dating back to the 1980’s and 1990’s.
In total, Thompson’s Conviction Review Unit has recommended vacating 19 convictions and affirmed 38 others. About 100 more cases are pending review.
A common thread in many of the cases that have been vacated was a lack of due process involving questionable testimony or evidence, according to the district attorney’s office.
In February 1991, police found the body of Neda Mae Carter, 38, nude and badly beaten. The only witness, Jerry Williams, described by authorities as a career criminal, testified that Hatchett killed her. After a mistrial due to ineffective defense counsel, a jury convicted Hatchett of second-degree murder, for which he was sentenced to 25 years.
Later the CRU determined that Hatchett, who had been shot six months before the murder, could not have physically committed the crime. Hatchett was represented by the New York-based Innocence Project during the review.
Unlike many of the convictions reviewed by Thompson’s Conviction Review Unit, the Hatchett case was not connected to Louis Scarcella, a now-retired New York City homicide detective who has been accused of coercing false confessions from suspects.
Scarcella and his attorneys have denied any wrongdoing and Thompson’s office declined to say whether he may face investigation.
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Two arrested in Costa Mesa motorcycle shop theft
By LOUIS CASIANO Jr. / STAFF WRITER
Two teens who are suspected of breaking in to a Costa Mesa motorcycle shop over the weekend and stealing a motorcycle were arrested Wednesday, police said.
Authorities arrested Mark Burlingham, 19, of Newport Beach, and a 17-year-old boy around 1 p.m. in the 100 block of East 16th Street on suspicion of commercial burglary and grand theft, a Costa Mesa police statement said. The identity of the 17-year-old is being withheld because he is a juvenile.
The pair allegedly entered MACH 1 Motorcycles, 133 Industrial Way, shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday by lowering themselves from the roof.
The thieves were in the store for 20 minutes and took a 2001 Honda sport motorcycle, two helmets and a leather jacket. Security footage captured one of the teens fleeing the shop on the bike, and the other leaving on foot because he could not start another motorcycle inside the business.
Burglary tools and other evidence were found at the scene. Detectives found the motorcycle and other stolen items during the arrests.
Details on what led to the arrest of the teens were not provided.
Burlingham is being held on $20,000 bail. Court information for both suspects was not available.
Contact the writer: 714-796-2478 or lcasiano@ocregister.com
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Man injured in Felton motorcycle crash
A motorcycle crash Tuesday left a Felton-area man in critical condition, according to police.
The state police Collision Reconstruction Unit responded to reports of a crash that occurred at approximately 6:30 p.m. Tuesday near Sandtown Road, according to police.
Preliminary investigation determined Rhonda A. Martin, 63, of Felton, was operating a 2004 Jeep Liberty eastbound on Sandtown Road west of Cabin Ridge Road while Paul J. Perry, 29, of Felton, was riding a 2002 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle eastbound on Sandtown Road, Master Cpl. Gary Fournier said in a press release.
Perry approached the Jeep from behind when the Jeep began to turn right, Fournier said.
Perry then hit the brakes and skid approximately 62 feet before the bike slid on its side and struck the Jeep on the right rear corner, according to police.
Perry was ejected from the motorcycle and landed on the side of the road, police said. Perry was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.
Perry was airlifted by Trooper 2, state police helicopter, to Christiana Medical Center where he is currently listed in critical condition, according to police.
Martin was wearing a seat belt and was uninjured in the crash, police said.
Sandtown Road was closed for approximately three and a half hours while the crash was investigated and cleared.
The Collision Reconstruction Unit is continuing their investigation into this incident and no charges have been filed.
According to the press release, in 2014 motorcycles were involved in 398 crashes, 12 were fatal, 232 resulted in personal injuries, and 89 resulted in property damage. In 2015 motorcycles were involved in 402 crashes, 20 were fatal, 209 resulted in personal injuries, and 106 resulted in property damage. The remainder of the crashes for both years were a result of minor or non-reportable crashes.Anyone may have witnessed the crash should contact Sergeant M. Groce at (302) 698-8518 or call Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333. Tips can be submitted at www.delaware.crimestoppersweb.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword “DSP.”
Police advised drivers to use the following tips while on the road with motorcyclists:
- Allow a motorcyclist the full lane width. Although it may seem as though there is enough room in a traffic lane for an automobile and a motorcycle, the motorcycle needs the full room to maneuver safely. Do not share the lane.
- Always signal your intentions before changing lanes or merging with traffic. This allows the motorcyclist to anticipate traffic flow and find a safe lane position.
- Remember that motorcyclists are often hidden in a vehicle’s blind spot or missed in a quick look due to their smaller size. Always make a visual check for motorcycles by checking mirrors and blind spots before entering or leaving a lane of traffic and at intersections.
- Don’t be fooled by a flashing turn signal on a motorcycle – motorcycle signals usually are not self-canceling and riders sometimes forget to turn them off. Wait to be sure the motorcycle is going to turn before you proceed.
- Remember that road conditions which are minor annoyances to passenger vehicles pose major hazards to motorcyclists. Be aware that motorcyclists may need to change speed or adjust their position within a lane suddenly in reaction to road and traffic conditions such as potholes, gravel, wet or slippery surfaces, pavement seams, railroad crossings, and grooved pavement.
- Don’t tailgate a motorcycle. Allow more following distance, three or four seconds, when following a motorcycle so the motorcyclist has enough time to maneuver or stop in an emergency. In dry conditions, motorcycles can stop more quickly than cars.
Police advised motorcyclists to adhere to the following to ensure safety:
- Follow the rules of the road.
- No speeding or weaving in and out of traffic.
- Be alert to other drivers.
- Always wearing protective gear including high visibility outerwear.
Contact Alonzo Small at (302) 324-2856 or asmall@delawareonline.com. Follow him on Twitter @P_AlonzoSmall.
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WEST HARTFORD — In April, the Zero Prostate Cancer Run/Walk, the largest national men’s health event series, will come to West Hartford for the first time. In this Healthier Connections report, brought to you by Hartford HealthCare, FOX 61’s Sarah Cody explains why this even is so important.
“I was scared right down to my shoes,” said Michael Cascella of Bristol. He becomes emotional when he recalls the moment he learned he had prostate cancer. “My family. That was one of the hardest parts about it. My wife, her reaction to all this.”
Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin tumor among men in the U.S. today. Cascella’s cancer was caught, thanks to PSA screening, which is recommended to men age 55 and up.
Dr. Ryan Dorin, a urologist, took out Cascella’s entire prostate using a robot. Hartford HealthCare has one of the largest robotic surgery experiences in the country. After radiation and hormone therapy, Cascella has an excellent prognosis. Cascella will continue to be monitored, but he’s so grateful for his new lease on life and the care he received.
“Every step of the way and every step from here on out i know that everything is going to go fine,” he said.
Dr. Dorin’s office is located at the 1-year-old Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute at the Hospital of Central Connecticut. It’s a comprehensive center that’s warm and welcoming.
Unfortunately, each year in the United States, 30,000 men die from the disease. That’s why Hartford HealthCare is hosting the Zero Prostate Cancer Run/Walk on April 10. Nationwide, the event will raise more than $3 million for prostate cancer research, advocacy, and patient education in 2016. Learn more about the event here.
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Drivers aren't scared of autonomous cars, after all
A sad and strange sight
You may have already seen one. You’re driving around and suddenly you see a car moving down the street – but the front seat is empty. It’s distinctly eerie. Car manufacturers and tech companies are collaborating to get self-driving cars on the roads, and many have already been tested in normal traffic. But let’s face it – many consumers are scared of the idea of letting a car drive itself.
Not ready to give up the wheel just yet
Proponents of driverless vehicles believe that the technology will make the roads safer, because a driverless vehicle cannot succumb to human error. If there is no driver, he or she can’t fall asleep at the wheel, get distracted by a text message, or drive while drunk.
But research suggests that consumers may not be ready to hand over the wheel just yet. AAA recently conducted a survey of 1800 drivers to gauge how comfortable consumers are with the idea of kicking back and relaxing while their car drives itself. The results were somewhat dismal: a full 75 percent of drivers said they didn’t feel safe in a driverless vehicle.
Interested in the features, but don’t want to give up control
However, the results shouldn’t be taken as a total rejection of the idea of automated driving.
While consumers don’t seem too keen on the idea of giving up total control of their vehicles to the robots, 60 percent of survey respondents reported that, next time they buy a new car, they will look for certain self-driving features, such as automatic parking, warnings when you’re swerving out of your lane, and automated cruise control that knows the speed limit, measures the distance of the car in front of you, and adjusts your speed accordingly.
Increasing the comfort level
According to AAA’s managing director of automotive engineering and repair, “people who have these features tend to like them and trust them. That will go a long way for them to start to accept the self-driving technology.” He believes that, if drivers are willing to try selective self-driving features, they will eventually be comfortable letting the car do all of the work. He expects drivers’ “comfort level” with self-driving cars to increase over the next five years.
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Dienstag, 8. März 2016
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Officials urge motorcycle safety as season gets off to an early start
Public officials are urging safety as motorcycle riding season gets off to an early – and deadly – start.
This comes a day after a rider and passenger were killed in a crash Monday. Duane Bixler, 52, of Fridley, was driving the motorcycle when he went through a red light and hit a minivan. He and his passenger, 49-year-old Joni Sue Miranda of St. Paul, were both killed, the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office says.
The incident marks the second-earliest motorcycle fatality ever in Minnesota, the state Department of Safety says. The earliest motorcycle death happened Feb. 23, 2002.
Last year, the first rider death of the season occurred March 15. During the 2015 riding season, there were 61 motorcycle fatalities, up from the 44 in 2014, preliminary numbers show.
“It’s the time of year when motorcyclists and motorists need to be extra cautious out on the roads,” Bill Shaffer, with the Department of Public Safety, said the news release. “Riders haven’t been out on the road for a few months, so it’s a good idea for them to take some time to brush up on their skills. Motorists also need to remember to look twice for motorcycles.”
As the warm weather continues, the agency is reminding riders to wear full, brightly-colored protective gear and a helmet, to drive at safe speeds, pay attention, don’t follow too closely and to ride sober. Safety officials are also encouraging riders to take a training class.
The Department of Public Safety is also asking motorists to keep an eye out for motorcycles, and to look twice before turning or changing lanes.
There are more than 236,000 registered motorcycles in the state, with more than 414,000 people licensed to drive them, the Department of Public Safety says.
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Review Roundup: THE ROYALE Opens at Lincoln Center Theater
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Lincoln Center Theater welcomes McKinley Belcher III, Khris Davis, Montego Glover, John Lavelle, and Clarke Peters to the stage in its production of The Royale, a new play by Marco Ramirez, directed by Rachel Chavkin, opening tonight, March 7, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street).
Loosely based on the real-life experiences of Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight world champion, The Royale tells, in six rounds, the fictional story of Jay “The Sport” Johnson (to be played by Khris Davis), a charismatic Negro Heavyweight Champion.
It’s 1905 and as Johnson faces his opponents — and confronts his demons — he exposes the troublesome events in his life that have propelled him into the ring with a burning desire to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
Let’s see what the critics had to say…
Ben Brantley, The New York Times: That this production never deploys real physical blows in recreating life in the ring is by no means to say that it doesn’t pack a punch. Staged with a swift, stark lyricism by the impossibly versatile Rachel Chavkin, “The Royale” boldly takes on and reorients a familiar genre and a familiar tale…Though they engage us unconditionally, none of the performers provide a full, idiosyncratic character. But that kind of portraiture is not the intention here…For the great subject of “The Royale”…is the selfish single-mindedness required of champions, and the repercussions such a focus has when it’s exercised by a black man in a white man’s world. Mr. Davis embodies this point of view with a stunning, arrogant innocence that charms and, in a subliminal way, terrifies.
David Cote, Time Out NY: Not a single flesh-on-flesh punch lands in Marco Ramirez’s intensely focused boxing drama, yet it’s like you see the blood and teeth flying and hear the crunch of broken ribs. In The Royale, the endless sucker punch of a historically racist society is the chief means of violence. Words are another, and they come fast and furious in a percussive script that also uses hand claps and foot stomping to symbolize the brutal dance of pugilists in the ring…Ramirez (benefiting from director Rachel Chavkin’s innate musicality) deftly sketches his version of Johnson in Jay, endowed with tremendous grace and charm by Khris Davis…The big showdown is handled in a fairly ingenious and surprising manner. It connects and it bruises.
Frank Rizzo, Variety: Sometimes the most powerful fights are the ones we have in our own minds – a fact vividly depicted on stage in “The Royale,” a riveting play by Marco Ramirez (“Daredevil,” “Orange is the New Black”), getting a hell of a workout Off Broadway…this is a spare and intimate story of internal struggles, propelled by the dynamic, imaginative direction of Rachel Chavkin and performed by a terrific quintet of actors, led by a charismatic Khris Davis as the great black hope…Ramirez depicts his fictional fighter…with quietness as well as bravado as Jay grapples with the profound meaning of what his actions mean to others, and to himself.
Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News: Newcomer Khris Davis brings muscle and fine acting chops as Jay. Montego Glover (“Memphis”) adds steely passion as his concerned sister. John Lavelle, Clarke Peters and McKinley Belcher III lend fine support as the boxer’s agent, trainer and sparring partner…Rachel Chavkin…replaces typical jabs and hooks with claps and stomps and makes you look at fight scenes with fresh eyes…The terrific performances and the striking, stylized staging deliver one-two punches.
Jeremy Gerard, Deadline: Ramirez allows the relationship between Fish and Jay to deepen as they train for the match. Much of the dialogue among the four men has the rhythm of jazz; the words and actions punctuated by syncopated clapping and stomping…Rachel Chavkin, an inventive and keen director best known for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812, knows her immersive theater and she also, on the evidence, honors writers…The Royale has heart and a conscience, and it’s unquestionably the work of a writer still finding his voice. Like his champion Jay, he’s got style.
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Motorcycle Curfew in 11 States?
Claim: Eleven states are implementing motorcycle curfews with stiff penalties for violators.
FalseExample: [Collected via e-mail, March 2016]
Just read that a lot of states are going to implement an 11:00 – 6:00am motorcycle curfew. Read it on AssociatedMediaCoverage.com Any truth in this? Thanks
Origin:On 7 March 2016, the somewhat official-sounding web site Associated Media Coverage published an article that reported:
11 states working in conjunction with the U.S Department of Transportation (U.D.O.T) have agreed to implement an ordinance requiring motorcyclists to adhere to a mandatory curfew between the hours of 11:00 PM – 6:00 AM.
Representatives from the 11 states that have agreed to the ordinance (South Dakota, Florida, Washington, Arkansas, California, New Hampshire, Indiana, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, & Kentucky), have said that their states will be implementing the ordinance as soon as early April 2016 and expect all motorcyclists to be in compliance immediately upon implementation. All states have agreed to implement the ordinance by July 3rd 2016.
Unlike many web sites that publish “satirical” items (also known as fake news), Associated Media Coverage featured no disclaimer warning readers that its content was not to be taken seriously. Each page displayed an “About Us” link at the bottom, which was not operational.
Associated Media Coverage appeared to feature just four articles, and didn’t come into existence until 18 February 2016. A sweeping, multi-state curfew initiated by the U.S. Department of Transportation would certainly make news across more than just one web site, and no individuals named “Donald McCarthy” were listed among DOT representatives.
Last updated: 07 March 2016
Originally published: 07 March 2016
Motorcycle Curfew in 11 States?
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NY Fashion Week a fascinating hassle
Q. Lois, when you say “New York Fashion Week,” is that a week of shows about men’s and women’s clothing? I thought they said that men’s clothes are included.
Is it all in Madison Square Garden or some convention center big enough to handle all the wardrobes (and the egos)?
A. New York Fashion Week is a series of many, many independent shows and, in fact, it is now two series: one men’s and one women’s.
As I mentioned last week, Fashion Week continues to grow year to year in popularity.
The first official Fashion Week began as “Press Week” in the 1940s. Members of the American fashion industry and press who could not go to Paris because of the war stayed home. Press Week eventually turned into Fashion Week. The shows were staged in locations scattered all over the city, which made them hard to get to at times.
Eleanor Lambert, a legend in the fashion industry who founded the International Best Dressed List and the Coty American Fashion Critics’ Award, had the idea to bring the shows together at a main location. In 1994 the runways found their first home at “the tents” in Bryant Park.
I remember back on 9/11 in 2001, Fashion Week was canceled and the tents were turned into temporary missing persons’ retrieval centers.
The shows outgrew the Bryant Park location and moved to Lincoln Center in 2010. Last year, word got out that Fashion Week was moving again, but no one knew where it would be. Apparently, this question was never answered, because the shows are once again scattered about the city — only now there are many more of them.
It has become increasingly difficult to find out who is showing and where. There’s no big umbrella anywhere.
Where each show will be presented is, of course, dependent on budget. Each designer stages his own show, but not everyone can afford an elaborate presentation at a luxe venue. Besides, it has become very impressive to unearth interesting venues, unique locations people will talk about. Some designers host shows in their own showrooms. Sometimes, the locations are more exciting than the clothes.
One unexpected location was in an amazing building in Soho, a converted power station that is now a private home (a five-story brownstone where Gwyneth Paltrow once lived). Hickey Freeman presented its newest collection of classic traditional men’s clothing. Marked by luxurious fabrics and superb tailoring, the upscale menswear line was displayed in lifestyle vignettes, groups of perfectly dressed male models, artfully posed. One grouping of eight models dressed in British-inspired looks from country tweeds to elegant black-tie attire (reminiscent of Downton Abbey) was positioned in front of a 20-foot-high fireplace wall in the upstairs living room.
Other tableau groups were posed throughout the house. But the real surprise came as I passed an open door on the second floor. Inside the door was a large indoor swimming pool, the full length of the brownstone, where a group of young men in swimsuits were playing water polo! I thought they were models, too, until I read the show’s printed program and its thanks to the Columbia University Men’s Water Polo team.
When I described the show and its setting to one of my sons as “how the other half lives,” he responded, “Or, perhaps more precisely, how the other 1/10th of 1 percent live!”
Shows were held in an impressive Midtown venue known as Gotham Hall. Constructed in 1923 as The Greenwich Savings Bank building, the imposing structure with a soaring cathedral-like domed ceiling is an example of early New York bank buildings, based on ancient Roman amphitheaters.
You need to realize that a big part of Fashion Week is its ”hurry up and wait” pace. If a show is scheduled for 3 p.m., guests begin lining up between 2:30 and 2:45. When the doors open, people find their seats (not those with “standing” tickets, of course, or those with “priority standing” tickets), and wait more. It’s a lot of waiting for a show that doesn’t last more than 20 minutes.
The first two rows are reserved for A-listers; the photographers seem to recognize them all and take photos for their publications.
The lights dim, the music blasts, and the show begins. The models, who are dressed in that designer’s clothes, all sport sleek hairdos — for women, an impossibly sleek pony tail — or else a wildly-teased huge style, and sometimes long curls.
The models walk the runway one at a time, then disappear backstage. In the past, the last garment shown was a wedding gown, but today it is a particularly elaborate example of the show’s pieces. Then, as is often demonstrated on dramas and other television, all the models walk the runway once again in close succession to much applause. The designer appears briefly to take his bow. The surprise is how often the designer is wearing rather ordinary, if not scruffy, clothes that conspicuously contrast with the elegance of the designs he just championed.
Back when the shows were concentrated in Bryant Park and Lincoln Center, press attendees used to receive handsome press bags full of Fashion Week goodies, a lower level version of what they have at the Oscars. Mini shopping bags with the designer’s logo were placed on each of those two front rows. Usually, the bag held simple gifts of shampoo or makeup, but sometimes it had a real treasure, such as perfume or a watch from Betsey Johnson’s collection.
I did not see many treasure bags this year. For the most part, giveaways are a thing of the past.
So, economic recovery? We in the fashion press don’t believe it.
But maybe the water polo team feels differently.
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NY Fashion Week a fascinating hassle
Masculinity: A curse or a promise?
Is masculinity a problem to be overcome?
That’s what you might believe after hearing what some academics and filmmakers are claiming about the character traits of most men.
The documentary, The Mask You Live In, which was recently shown at a forum on men’s issues at the University of B.C., pictures masculinity as the driving force behind virtually all that is wrong with North American culture.
“Be a man!” “Don’t be a girl!” “Stop crying!” “What a fag.” “Grow some balls!” “Don’t let a woman run your life.” “Get laid.” “Stop with the emotions!”
These male rebukes are spat out at the beginning of The Mask You Live In. They’re part of the catalogue of stereotypical admonitions that the filmmakers claim compose the hidden social rules that forge the grim “mask” of masculinity.
The documentary argues these values cause widespread violence, abuse, addiction, crime and war — and it implies they need to be replaced by more feminine values, such as those related to sharing feelings, empathy, co-operating and nurturing.
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The Mask You Live In builds its case against masculinity — which it would have been more accurate to define as “hyper-masculinity” — on a gender theory called “hegemonic masculinity,” which is purported to be a system of cultural narratives that keep men dominant.
Men who have watched The Mask You Live In say they don’t recognize themselves or their friends in the documentary. Vancouver’a Seth McDonough experienced the film as pure propaganda.
This field comes laden with clichés about men. One related study published in the Sex Roles Journal argued that “masculine norms” include placing a high value on violence, being disgusted by homosexuality, acting sexually promiscuous, controlling others and pursuing social status at all cost.
Such so-called masculine norms seem cartoonish to me.
As Vancouver clinical psychologist Dan Bilsker says, The Mask You Live In and the academic studies that inform it often seem devoted to “vilifying and caricaturing” an extreme version of masculinity.
Even though there is probably a subset of macho men in North America who feel they must hide their true selves behind “the mask” of 19th-century sex-role stereotypes, I never seem to meet such fellows in the 21st century.
In reality, the North American and global landscape is brimming with a wide range of men and ways of being masculine.
Other men who have watched The Mask You Live In say they don’t recognize themselves or their friends in the documentary. Vancouver mental-health worker Seth McDonough experienced the film as pure propaganda.
Behind the Mask, McDonough said, is an ideological argument that makes the “startling assertion we live in a rape culture,” gives into the “wild and unproven assumption that gender is purely a social construct” and furthers the dubious notion that “men are, by definition, privileged.”
Even though McDonough generally supports the film’s message that men should not confine themselves to narrow gender roles, he cites how philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers’ book, The War Against Boys, maintains too many North Americans are falling into the habit of demonizing masculinity in its entirety.
It’s not inaccurate to suggest some males hide their feelings behind the “mask” of toughness. But the filmmakers make the mistake of arguing their case by focusing on the extreme examples set by National Football League players, prisoners, U.S. soldiers and gang members.
Such super-aggressive realms have little to do with the different types of men found in computer technology, health care, the electrical trades, the clergy or education. The men I know who hike in the forest, volunteer as coaches, fish, garden, read history or play musical instruments just don’t embody the hyper-masculinity of a typecast NFL player or U.S. marine.
Indeed, Bilsker, lead author of the groundbreaking report, A Roadmap to Men’s Health, said he’s worked with soldiers, firefighters, police officers and athletes who also don’t fit the hyper-masculine stereotype. They do not want to follow macho rules. They are aware of the cost of being emotionally constricted.
The kind of slanted research on masculinity that fuel films such as The Mask You Live In, directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, come from many academic bodies. Some of the more prominent are Stony Brook University’s Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities and the activist website, Masculinity 101, which is filled with contempt for the concept.
One concern I have about this kind of research is that it is skewed by being American-centric.
After all, the U.S. is a highly militarized, competitive and weaponized society. It’s a country where major professional sporting events are often used to extol the power and glory of the most-powerful armed forces in the world.
Many American men are often quite different from men in Canada, Europe and elsewhere. “When I travel,” Dan Bilsker says, “I find Americans in general, men and women, more aggressive and intense than Canadians.”
Many American men, as a result, are often quite different from men in Canada, Europe and elsewhere. Bilsker has noticed this, too.
“When I travel,” he says, “I find Americans in general, men and women, more aggressive and intense than Canadians.”
Another concern is that The Mask You Live In and the researchers it cites seem to have a blind spot for the flip side of macho. They rarely dig into hyper-femininity.
Both were on full display during the NFL Super Bowl game and its halftime show, when scantily clad performers such as Beyonce engaged in a great deal of sexual vamping, including with macho Bruno Mars.
Hyper-femininity lures women into an exaggerated need to appear physically attractive, thereby losing track of their authentic selves. Therefore it’s just as important to study and criticize as hyper-masculinity.
In addition, is it possible the business world is doing better research on men than academics?
Since advertisers are not interested in academic trends or social activism, but in what sells, their research may be more impartial. As Bilsker notes, advertisers need to understand their male target audiences. So it would be dumb for them to assume most men buy into hyper-masculinity when they don’t.
This must be why large companies such as Proctor and Gamble, Unilever and Microsoft are now increasingly creating advertising images in which fathers connect with children, men take part in household chores and males come with physical and emotional individuality.
Finally, are we overlooking some good aspects of masculinity?
Minnesota storyteller Garrison Keillor has pointed to the lack of satisfaction, for both genders, in men simply trying to be more like women.
“Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome,” Keillor says. “Being ‘all right’ is a dismal way to spend your life, and guys are not equipped for it. We are lovers and artists and adventurers, meant to be noble, free-ranging.“
Indeed, there are many so-called masculine characteristics that are worthy of admiration, just as there are positive traits associated with femininity. These qualities are a fluid product of both biology and social construction. They are available to all, regardless of gender.
In that context, Bilsker believes some of the traditional masculine virtues that remain valuable are a sense of responsibility, courage, honour and loyalty to family.
Others have suggested positive masculine traits include stability, independence, strength, discipline and love of adventure.
And even though some academics and films such as The Mask You Live In attack masculinity for promoting risk-taking, Bilsker counters that society needs the people, predominantly men, who feel called to be firefighters, soldiers, police officers, loggers, construction workers and emergency responders.
They run a much higher danger of being killed on the job than others, but we depend on them.
In other words, maybe there are qualities associated with masculinity that deserve to be honoured.
Masculinity: A curse or a promise?
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