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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: recent (beastly) articles
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Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 00:33:02 EST
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In article <1894@sun.uucp> sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) writes:
>Where the Wildmen Are (What Men Really Want) - by Robert Bly
>
>	The step of the male bringing forth his own feminine consciousness
>is an important one-and yet I have the sense there is something wrong.  The
>male in the last twenty years has become more thoughtful, more gentle.  But
>by this process, he has not become more free.  He's a nice boy who not only
>pleases his mother but also the young woman he is living with.
>	What I'm proposing is that every modern male has, lying at the bottom
>of his psyche, a large, primitive man covered with hair down to his feet.
>Making contact with this wildman is the step the '70s male has not yet taken;
>this is the process that still hasn't taken place in contemporary culture.
> [ and more]


Ok, now that I've seen this article, I know the context you posted your
previous "wildman" article in, and now it makes more sense.

However, Robert Bly's article seems based on the assumption that there is
something fundamentally different between men and women - that all men,
and presumably no women, have this "wildman" inside them.  And I simply
don't accept that assumption when presented without any supporting argument.