Sometimes it’s an earnest actor in a white lab-coat or a black suit, trying to convince us that his toxic fluoride toothpaste is good for our health or that his party’s million-dollar spend on weapons is for peace. And they do it with such a straight face!
Sometimes the story’s presented with a chuckle and we know another fiction is on the way: “did you hear the one about …”
And, sometimes, just sometimes, there’s a story parading as nought but itself – a clear fiction...
We’re a story-telling lot, us humans.
Sometimes it’s an earnest actor in a white lab-coat or a black suit, trying to co...
The Women's Liberation Movement burst into our living-rooms some thirty years ago with a strident, demanding, angry, divisive and separatist energy. And that's as it should be for it was about women reclaiming their masculine (yang) energy. While it is recognised that the public persona of the Movement was probably the tip of the iceberg, with most women just asserting themselves in a quiet (and often unsupported) way, it came across as a Women's Movement with masculine energy.
Ask people today about the Men's Movement and most...
Short stories and articles about and for men.
The Women's Liberation Movement burst into our living-rooms some thirty years ago with a strid...
