By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
Arthur Walker, speaking at a Masculinity and Meaning event at Benoiff Hall yesterday, said he wished to utter a warning against the growing tendency among men, whether frustrated singles, contented husbands, or divorced fathers — “and I have been all three,” he said, eliciting laughter from the crowd — to blame themselves for the problems that afflict them, especially in relationships with others. If that state of freighted self-consciousness was going to spread in male minds, it could destroy them from within and take from society the very figures who had been its sheet anchors in the past. He went on to hope aloud that in spite of the momentary embarrassment of recent years, in which men have looked inward without a corresponding willingness to hold others to account, he was confident that there would arise a stronger sense of men not as problem but as solution, that, as a result of its size and coherence, was bound to succeed.
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