Not My Father's Son

And that’s not to say that moments of happiness did not exist, it’s just that cumulatively they have been erased by the dominant feelings that

And that’s not to say that moments of happiness did not exist, it’s just that cumulatively they have been erased by the dominant feelings that color all of our childhood recollections.

color all of our childhood recollections.

It makes you anxious, of course, and constant anxiety is impossible for the body to handle.

For me, I found myself embracing the childhood I felt I had missed.

I realized that I was living my life backwards. I had to be a grown-up when I’d been a little boy,

So the box in the attic stayed up there, gathering dust, neglected. Eventually I think we forgot about it completely. But the thing about boxes full of denial and years of

unresolved pain and hurt is that eventually . . . they explode.

women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able to escape whilst at the same time drawing attention to their sexual and secondary sexual characteristics.

And I think that has happened so that men feel they can ogle them and protect them in equal measure.