Thursday, March 01, 2007

To me, "Fear Of Women" is a particularly interesting
challenge to me. It's interesting for a few reasons:

1) As men, we're expected to overcome fear, slay dragons,
and generally act tough in the face of those things that
cause us to fear.

2) Men like to act "tough". They don't like to admit that
they need help. Us guys want to do it ourselves. We see
needing help as a sign of weakness, which we think is BAD.

3) When you combine these two things, you get a man who is
afraid of something that he LOGICALLY shouldn't be afraid
of (it doesn't make sense to fear a woman), but who is
unwilling to admit that he has the fear - which leads to a
state of "quiet desperation". It's a trap, and there's no
way out.