On Feeling Totally Masculine
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the butchest of them all?
‘What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…’
So wrote the late Susan Sontag, in her classic 1964 essay ‘Notes on Camp’.
It’s a great, persuasive line, but of course entirely and deliciously subjective. I tend to agree with the famously stern Sapphic here, but then as an old …