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Freemans Sporting Club: Utterly Gay, Yet Ball-Free

freemans exterior "It's just like not being all those fucking metrosexual dickfaces," Freemans Sporting Club member Jack Dakin told the Observer back in November. Oh really? Thursgay's Critical Shopper column details the wares of the Lower East Side taxidermy-filled barbershop'n'$2,000 suits emporium, and it paints a very metrosexual, very dickfacey picture. $390 hand-stitched rubber wellies! $3,000 custom tailoring! A $40 fade haircut! But there is one genre of hipster accessory the FSC doesn't sell, writes Shopper-sub Horatio Silva: "The focus here is clearly on authentic work wear and on the trappings of masculinity—in other words, on the importance of being Ernest Hemingway. Which explains why there are no man jewels available at this Big Papa's House."

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9:45 AM on Thu Mar 1 2007
By Emily Gould
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GrumpyMcGillicutty at 10:05 AM on 03/01/07
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Master practitioners of douchery, these guys.
One has to imagine that if E.H. himself were to come back from the grave and stumble into this place, he'd fly into a rage and overturn the clothes racks like Jesus and the moneychangers.
Spit at 10:53 AM on 03/01/07
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I get my fade on Third Ave. for five bucks. suckers.
The Real JR at 11:45 AM on 03/01/07
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Connectedness Index: 176

Ten years ago, a "Sporting Club" in the Lower East Side would have consisted of a couple of card tables with some dominoes, a cooler of Coronas, and salsa music from a transistor radio pumping from within behind boarded up windows.
lalalina at 12:37 PM on 03/01/07
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ugh. NYT boys are so easily impressed. perhaps they provide another service out back that horatio forgot to mention.
enigmaticjack at 01:07 PM on 03/01/07
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RealJR, if there were also cockfights (of that persuasion, at least), I'd be there. But these guys are just plain old dicks.
Smirk at 04:09 PM on 03/01/07
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It's funny how these types of places tend to tread the wafer thin line between "macho" and "seriously gay." And, of course, it's hysterical that they never seem to know when they've crossed over...