I Never Met A Man Who Wasn't

A Man Can Be A Hero If He Is A Scientist, Or A Soldier, Or A Drug Addict, Or A Disc Jockey, Or A Crummy Mediocre Politician. A Man Can Be A Hero Because He Suffers And Despairs; Or Because He Thinks Logically And Analytically; Or Because He Is "sensitive"; Or Because He Is Cruel. Wealth Establishes A Man As A Hero, And So Does Poverty. Virtually Any Circumstance In A Man's Life Will Make Him A Hero To Some Group Of People And Has A Mythic Rendering In The Culture - In Literature, Art, Theater, Or The Daily Newspapers.

I Love, Cherish, And Respect Women In My Mind, In My Heart, And In My Soul. This Love Of Women Is The Soil In Which My Life Is Rooted. It Is The Soil Of Our Common Life Together. My Life Grows Out Of This Soil. In Any Other Soil, I Would Die. In Whatever Ways I Am Strong, I Am Strong Because Of The Power And Passion Of This Nurturant Love.

Pornography Reveals That Male Pleasure Is Inextricably Tied To Victimizing, Hurting, Exploiting; That Sexual Fun And Sexual Passion In The Privacy Of The Male Imagination Are Inseparable From The Brutality Of Male History. The Private World Of Sexual Dominance That Men Demand As Their Right And Their Freedom Is The Mirror Image Of The Public World Of Sadism And Atrocity That Men Consistently And Self-righteously Deplore. It Is In The Male Experience Of Pleasure That One Finds The Meaning Of Male History.

Being Stigmatied By Sex Is Being Marked By Its Meaning In A Human Life Of Loneliness And Imperfection, Where Some Pain Is Indelible.

Men Are Rapists, Batterers, Plunderers, Killers; These Same Men Are Religious Prophets, Poets, Heroes, Figures Of Romance, Adventure, Accomplishment, Figures Ennobled By Tragedy And Defeat. Men Have Claimed The Earth, Called It 'her'. Men Ruin Her. Men Have Airplanes, Guns, Bombs, Poisonous Gases, Weapons So Perverse And Deadly That They Defy Any Authentically Human Imagination.