I haven't gone anywhere

The Times Online has a review entitled Where have all the real men gone? of a new book entitled Save the Males: "For the past 30 years or so, males have been under siege by a culture that too often embraces the notion that men are to blame for all of life’s ills. Males as a group – not random men – are bad by virtue of their DNA. While women have been variously cast as victims, martyrs, mystics, or saints, men have quietly retreated into their caves, the better to muffle emotions that fluctuate between hilarity (Are these bitches crazy or what?) and rage (Yes, they are and they’ve got our kids). In the process of fashioning a more female-friendly world, we have created a culture that is hostile towards males, contemptuous of masculinity, and cynical about the delightful differences that make men irresistible, especially when something goes bump in the night. In popular culture, rare is the man portrayed as wise, strong, and noble. In film and music, men are variously portrayed as dolts, bullies, brutes, deadbeats, rapists, sexual predators, and wife-beaters. Even otherwise easy-going family men in sitcoms are invariably cast, at best, as bumbling, dim-witted fools. One would assume from most depictions that the smart, decent man who cares about his family and pats the neighbour’s dog is the exception rather than the rule."

Rico says this is why he's been trying to finish a book entitled A Good Man is Hard to Become for years now; it may never see the light of day, but it should...