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Saturday, December 20, 2003
The Degradation of Male Relationships and True Masculinity
In the World of the Locker Room Male and Homophobia, Men are ever on the guard against homosexuality. Any sort of love or caring for another man is out of the question because this, obviously, is homosexuality. The problem here is rooted in the meaning of modern Love. Love, obviously, is sexual. Either love is for the opposite sex because you desire them sexually, or love is for Family. Outside of this, love is not allowed. Men cannot care for each other because their idea of love is so warped into sexuality that they cannot escape it. Often times, Men who do care for their friends are labelled as "fag" or "queer" or just "homo" or "gay." Take, for instance, the Men and Hobbits and Elves and Dwarves of Tolkien's writing. When most modern - at least, Modern American - males see the Lord of the Rings movies, they automatically think that obviously these peoples are homosexuals because they love each other, and love - obviously - is sexual. Tolkien wrote from the mind of a soldier, one who slept and ate and lived in the muddied, bloodied trenches of The Great War. A Soldier, a Warrior as those in his books, who loved those with whom he lived. He loved them and they loved him, and their love was one of loyal friendship - of true fellowship. This is something that is nigh upon lost in the modern world. I know that at least this fellowship exists in western culture in the American Army. For instance, my father recently went on a trip to Germany with the Army. He had a hotel paid for by the Army. A friend of his whom he worked with in Japan was stationed there, and instead of staying at his hotel he stayed with his friend. Why? Because they were friends, they were loyal and cared for each other. In the end, this problem really comes down to one thing: Over-sexualisation of all things. Everything is overly sexualised in this modern world. Love and Romance are no longer seperate, nor sacred. Friendship and 'someone you go out and do stuff with sometimes' have hardly a line between them. For the sake of not repeating myself, I'm going to end here. I could go on and on about the degradation of True Masculinity, I could flood over into the area of how Men should truly love their wife, or how Men are not the idiotic dolts portrayed through modern media...I could go on and on about the degradation of True Masculinity, but I will not. In Memory of Petey [Steven] Time:11:34 AM Thursday, December 18, 2003
Well, I saw Return of the King yesterday. I don't care what people think of my masculinity for this, the truth is that when it finished I collapsed in tears. A few times. Actually just once, at the end, and I didn't collapse, per se.
In Memory of Petey [Dave] Time:11:29 AM
Well, Kim left today. I don't care what people think of my masculinity for this, the truth is that when I got home I collapsed in tears. A few times. Going upstairs, when I saw her pillow, when I saw I(heart)U scratched into the desk. Everywhere I look I'm overwhelmed with sadness and my heart feels as if it is to burst within my chest as some insane way of ending my agony by natural subconscious suicide.
In other news, we saw TROTK yesterday at the 2:15 matinee. It was so spectacular. I'm serious people, go see this movie. This has to be the best of any movie ever. I actually LIKED Frodo by the end. It was all very true to the book, too. In Memory of Petey [Steven] Time:9:52 AM Monday, December 15, 2003
"so what's up with the lack of updates as of late?"
An answer to this question, posed by a commenter, I will now propose. As you all know, Steve has been "occupied" the past several days or so, or more. As for me, well, John was over for the weekend. What with all the midnight movies, beer, calling people, and shopping we did, wfw fell rather low on the priority list. And now you know... the rest of the story! In Memory of Petey [Dave] Time:7:28 PM |
