If you actually read the study ( I kiss them because I love them: The emergence of heterosexual men kissing in British institutes of education) it never claims kissing is just a simple lad greeting, and in fact the word “greet / greeting” appears only once in the paper. (pg. 422: “Thus, a kiss on the lips has not been part of the historical repertoire of greetings or demonstrations of affection among men for centuries in Britain”) 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. High above the rooftops, just as the lads’ final chorus swells triumphantly, there’s a randomized 50% chance for him to suddenly plummet to the ground like Icarus. I thought the morbid humor would feel appropriately British; Even with the magic of love, these lads are still merely men, God giveth and God taketh away, and so on. Brendan Keogh once wrote that my characters “are so perfectly imperfect as to fall square into the uncanny valley,” and Hard Lads continues this descent into uncanny queer embodiment. 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”.

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Twenty years on from that BBC news report, very little has improved, proving that even today – when conversations surrounding mental health are more open than ever – there is still work to be done. The Three Legs to my memory always had an offical branch & eventually evolved into what's now become the Vine Branch[/quote] May this humble game serve as official notice to the entire world: I hereby declare British Lads Hit Each Other With Chair to be Gay Culture, the shared communal legacy of LGBTQ+ people everywhere. Legs were scary bastards remember when they were an official supporters club but were banned.[/quote] Following this tradition of camp, the ending sequence for Hard Lads began as a failure in my code. I was trying to apply physics forces to keep the ragdoll upright, but instead it levitated the hurt lad off the ground.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. 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: 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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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! 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. One of the lads in California is from Uttoxoter in Staffs and he has loads of mates still from midlands from them days. That’s when chair lad bosom buddy launches into a rousing rendition of “Truly Madly Deeply”, by Australian pop sensation Savage Garden: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.) I watched him steadily rise into the air, as if transcending this mortal plane of pain and suffering and chairs. It was beautiful to watch his worn-out body rise above the rooftops and into the endless sky. Icarus was finally achieving his dream. While it wasn’t two shirtless hunks holding each other, there was still a sense of gentleness here. 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. In naïve, or pure, Camp, the essen­tial element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails. Of course, not all seriousness that fails can be redeemed as Camp. Only that which has the proper mixture of the exaggerated, the fantastic, the passionate, and the naïve…

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Suicide remains the biggest killer among males under 45years old. When leading British mental health organisation The Priory Group surveyed 1,000 men in 2015, their results revealed that at its crux, 40 per cent of men were unwilling to talk to anyone about their mental health, with further findings showing that 77 per cent of those same men have suffered from depression, anxiety or stress. Worryingly, 40 per cent of men involved in the poll revealed it would take suicidal thoughts or self-harm to seek professional help. asserting their straightness. The underlying joke is that LGBTQ intimacy is less real than their strong, infallible heteromasculine bond. This resulting straight male energy forms a magical force field to negate queer possibility. [note]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. Wakey lads were a good set of lads and some of the main players in 80s. Our little group of lads always teamed up with wakey at games, one of them was caught up in the operation wild boar if i remember rightly he was the lad who worked for british rail. Top Rank SC:3178 wrote:Wakey lads were a good set of lads and some of the main players in 80s. Our little group of lads always teamed up with wakey at games, one of them was caught up in the operation wild boar if i remember rightly he was the lad who worked for british rail. Totally agree it was one of the things that defined us think it also confused the home fans where they'd be waiting for lads straight of the train from Leeds and lads would appear from Morecombe or Stoke etc would turn up with a small crew. men who have sex with men (MSM) define sex by social context rather than the sexual activity involved.

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When talking about White working class people, there are at least two traps here. The conservative trap is to “defend” a “White working-class heritage” racist dog Growing up in those heteronormative environments, Ihave always felt this pressure from the hyper-masculine men around me to conform to the same unachievable, outdated standards of what they think aman should be,” says Shaw, whose other work includes aCarling advertisement with the recognisable logo removed in favour of ​ “Crying” and the tagline swapped for: ​ “Probably the best way to get things off your chest”. Conceptually, the allusion to pro wrestling culture is exactly what these lads are trying to perform. This connection to wrestling is also why I swapped out the video’s weird patio chair for a proper metal folding chair. In terms of formal game design, the chair rain offers a useful ramp for wordlessly conveying game progression. Hopefully players get the sense that something is escalating out of their control. I never explain how this chair rain happens, it just suddenly comes out of nowhere, a bit like the surreal rain at the end of the film Magnolia (spoiler). You could easily interpret these chairs as societal pressure from an unseen audience, or as a divine desire to hit you when you’re down. It echoes the cosmic irony of the gods thwarting every second of the lad’s life. 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.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? 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.