Bly’s Concept of the ‘Wild Man’

Gordon’s concern about the liberation of women is a worthy cause but her attack on “positive patriarchy” really stretches reason to the limit. Gordon’s comparing “wild men,” a harmless release of joy and emotion to “wilding,” a destructive, criminal spree is truly taking an argument to absurd lengths.

Robert Bly’s men’s movement is no more a call for misogyny than assertiveness training for women is a castration clinic.

If we are to progress as men and women we must do so with reason and good judgment not with the rancor Suzanne Gordon seems to harbor at the expense of truth.

GLEN CREASON

Los Angeles