My life with all the joys and struggles as a son, grandson, brother, father, stepfather, grandfather and husband provides a rich and humbling experience of living as a man. Therefore I am committed to learning more about why men have difficulty feeling and how we can be conscious in an unconscious world.

MY WEBSITE WILL:

- Explore the subject of masculinity, being male, being a man, and the journey to manhood.
- Examine how men learn to be men.
- Define what it is to be a healthy man.
- Identify constraining forces that impact the development of a healthy man.
- Identify the social, political and economic conditions that force men to stay numb and disconnected from their feelings.
- Recommend what men can do as adults to become healthy.
- Provide an interactive forum to exchange information, ideas, resources, concerns, and feelings.

IDEAS TO EXPLORE WHICH ADDRESS THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING MALE IN TODAY’S WORLD:

Why do men die eight years younger than women on average in the U.S.?

Why do they have higher rates of cancer, heart attacks, and suicide, as well as more substance abuse, risk-taking, and automobile accidents?

Have men been betrayed by our culture? Susan Faludi’s book Stiffed addresses her struggle to “understand the perilous voyage to manhood” undertaken by men. She describes the condition of the post Second World War American male as a “modern social tragedy.” She empathetically describes “male anguish ” as being the result of the “betrayal of the American man.”

How do war and the “military industrial complex” affect men? Leo Braudy’s book From Chivalry To Terrorism, War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity explores the conscious and unconscious ways American and European cultures “establish an essential role for military and warrior virtue in defining masculinity.” He points to war and masculinity shaped by a long interwoven history. War “enforces an extreme version of male behavior as the ideal model for behavior.”

I look forward to the development and exchange of ideas on these and other topics related to men’s issues.