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[Previous entry: "Not to be outdone by Malaysia, NASA unveils 13 year plan to go back on the moon."] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Pshops of musicians trying to be too versatile"] 09/19/2005 Entry: "RAW's Email to the Universe released." RAW's Email to the Universe released. The sample snippet has quite a bit to do with what RAW calls "androphobia." Boy's got a bone to pick with some people it seems. You see? All the old racist clichés---except "a great sense of rhythm." I thus regard androphobia as merely a transmutation from racism to sexism, an "advance" that is not an advance at all. Let me make this very clear. I do not oppose Feminism; on the contrary, I reject all forms of group stereotyping and dehumanization. Androphobia (or male-bashing) has no intrinsic or necessary link with Feminism, and many Feminists utterly reject androphobia. To use an analogy, Marx said that "anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools." Similarly, I regard androphobia as the Feminism of imbeciles. I oppose androphobia as psychological gendercide. I believe it underlies the widespread male depression (which psychotherapists recognize as "epidemic"), and also explains much of the soaring suicide rate among boys and young males. Possibly related: Salon.com piece on "Listless lads." The men I meet are not the rakish, workaholic, cheating cads of yore. No, I'm bearing witness to a bona fide crisis in American masculinity, one that seems especially, but not exclusively, to afflict the young, urban and privileged. And with it, I have observed the birth of a new breed of man: a man of few interests and no passions; a man whose libido is reduced and whose sense of responsibility nonexistent. These men are commitment-phobic not just about love, but about life. They drink and take drugs, but even their hedonism lacks focus or joy. They exhibit no energy for anyone, any activity, profession or ideology.