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Goldberg tells men to discard outmoded roles
THE HAZARDS OF BEING
MALE by Herb Goldberg.
Nash Publishing, 1976. 200
pps., $8.95.
By JACK HIBBARD
. j~EN ARE LIKE horses. Dif-
ferent horses fulfill different
social functions. and roles, and
the behavior of male humans
appears similar. The show
horses are successful, the work
horses are blue collar and the
remaining few wild horses are
free to choose, though theirs is
a risky dalliance. Horses are
bridled and harnessed, saddled
and shod, shown and' shorn.
They are expected to perform
upon command and to respond
to the needs of their owners.
Men are similarly constrained-
primped and ridden by a social
and psychological order.
Horses find their role accept-
able and even desired. There is
usually plenty to eat, a com-
fortable stall in a stable and
certainly fillies galore. What
would seem to go against the
human strain is the bit in the
mouth. It is extremely difficult
to project why so many men are
willingly shackled by so many
restraints, both social and self-
imposed.
In The Hazards of Being
Male, the life of a man is de-
picted as presently out of his
control. He is subject to so
many strong, countervailing
forces that determinism seems
to be but a vague notion of 19th
century western philosophy. A
Y man has not thereal power to
set his own course but rather
only the illusory power of fitting
into a series of compartments.
Supposedly, we are to believe
that men have fallen into this
spaper situation by culturally sinking
into a position of self-denial.
Goldberg encourages all men to
open themselves to close scru-
nytime and tiny. However, the frame of;
hotography reference is not some pre-de-
termined outward set of rules;
but rather the man's feelings
i
about himself and his station in off the word "cheating," which
life. he believes carries the same
super - negative connotation of
IN ORDER to discover "real" devi'l-like behavior.
the old stone
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Sfeelings, there is apparently
s o m e cultural and familial
"peeling of crust" to explore
the primal man. This may be
the greatest fault in Goldberg's
male theory, for to strip away
these layers of socialization,
most men seem to need predis-
position. The ability to come to
grips with the "new" self may
be too frightening. The actual
man may shock the manufac-
tured being in which he now
rests.
In examining the manufac-
tured creature, The Hazards of
Being Male traces the body and
the emotions of a "regular guy"
through relationships and ritual.
Men have been taught how to
act just as muc has women
have. And it is not from wo-
men, necessarily, that they
should be liberated but rather
from the vestiges of masculinity
which no longer make sense in
the cobalt train of
GOLDBERG RATHER . sees
sexual forays in the midst
of marriage as revitalizing. He
further cites a survey of a
respectable suburban district,
in which '60 per cent of both
men and women desire extra-
marital sexual affairs given the
appropriate opportunities. Gold-
berg may fear for the sex lives
of America, as he also notes
off-handedly that a man at age
40 spends more time shaving
than copulating. He readily as-
serts full, free and ecstatic sex
without excessive rational links
reunites a man with long lost
parts.
. In dealing with such feelings,
Goldberg quickly analyzes de-
pendency, passivity, fear, sad-
ness, aggression, anger toward
women, proximity to men,
touching, freedom, femininity
and irrational (ambiguous) be-
day
~sweeps down the western sky
toward my source
and washes your skin to
bluemilk marble
opens your eyes and veins to
lapis
leisurely
brushes the fringe of gold
across your brow
then lengthens the hem of darkness
Men have been taught how to act just
as much as women have. And it is not
from women, necessarily, that they should
be liberated but rather from the vestiges
of masculinity which no longer make sense
in modern culture.
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specialists when it's too late.
'UO ESCAPE men must shed
"success" and develop heal-
thy male alliances that extend
past the surface of politics and;
sports.
In i "afterspect," Goldberg
searches for the healthy male'
specimen, who must work ex-
tremely hard at siphoning theI
best of his heritage and elimin-
ating all wasteful and destruc-'
tive elements.
Those of us who were once
little boys and in many respects!
remain so, are coming to real-
ize that there's a new man up
ahead. Economics must be de-
fined for the new male behavior.
And perhaps Goldberg's book
will become the bible for this
and
the age of stones
that flowed like the sea
that flowed like ink
when knives were made of wood
and locks of ribbon
i sorrow for
Goldberg
when you and
lost in legend
then lamps on
i had futures.
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modern culture. Goldberg's an-
alysis proceeds through inward
and outward contraints with
special emphasis given to bind-
ing relationships.
Monogamy, for example, is
dealt with as a critical problem.
In western society, Goldberg
argues that boys are encouraged
to leap into the role of a "ladies
man." Male needs for diversity
in later life, consistent with
early behavior, are said to be
shallow and bad. Cheating leads
to guilt, and the book even
stretches our imaginations to
masses of men living in "quiet
desperation." Goldberg's solu-
tion is to reclaim the primal
pleasures of youth and to cast
r'
havior. The macho machine i new uieU 01 mndust as the
cranks out feelings from train- Feminine Mystique by Betty
ing to survival and success (usu- Friedan defined a new course
ally in business). The binds arise for women.
from loss of identity and pur-
pose somewhere between child- , Jack Hibbard is an employe
hood and college education. Men at Borders Books.
and women are not themselves
because of their sense of be- PIPE DREAMS
ing caged by smoking, drinking j SYRACUSE,'N.Y. A)-"Pipes
coffee, and consuming junk ! are ubiquitiods in the Came-
food. The man who confronts roons and the more important
himself and others with hones- the man's social status and ex-
ty and directness is seen as tensive his wealth, the more
tactless, undiplomatic, inappro- elaborate his pipe," according
priate and even naive. The ways to the Everson Museum of Art.
of the world are fixed and the The Everson, which has an
ways of men too often are as intricately carved, heavy bronze
inflexible. Man destroys his body Cameroonian pipe in its perma-
by not listening to it, preferting nent collection, says the "pipes
S -- --range from the modestly carved,
- hand-held, wooden object own-
ed by the average Cameroonian
citizen to the profusely decora-
livan Society ted bronze or brass piece -- too
iheavy to lift ..."
and specs on
elemental harmonies are gone
we burn away
a former life
and sleep
the remnants of
cloaked in green
honorable antigone
murmurs
in my dreams
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