It sounds like this guy is trying to invent a new way to restrict the human libido. He brings up that as a child he use to skip around, wear his hair long, and he had the constant feeling of being happy to be alive so overall he was a sissy. Then he goes on to say that he "reinvented" himself to be manlier. He preaches about people going after their desires and he sounds as if he wants to propose this radical idea that they should all change, they being the gays, females with male qualities and men with feminine qualities. If that was the case well then what’s the point of living. I mean, were all born differently and the world would be quite boring if this lunatic were to have his way. In all honesty I think the author of this poem would have been a homosexual himself or either a beta male at worst if he were never to have conformed to the ideas of society.
This piece made me conjure in my head the "John Wayne" concept, or in basic format the idea that men are supposed to be gladiators and have no type of conscience at all. If you pay attention to the movie's that are being put out have you ever seen a mainstream Superhero or the Protagonist ever lack stereotypical male qualities? Have you ever see the damsel in distress in these "epic" movies act like men. And even if there is a female as the main protagonist in the script they always have so male quality to them. We as Americana’s have identified male characteristics are strong, and the women to be well just women. This ideology is spanned for years, but back to this piece as a whole. To me the narrator of this short write is trying to deliberate that if he can change himself into some type of manly "robot" then you too can shut off your desires and become what you were born to be.
I do agree with him one thing, he says the nation can't be run by the anarchy of unrestrained desire and that is true things have to be governed to a degree, but in the same sense I ask the question well who is he to tell others to deny your self’s the freedom that you have as an individual. If you want to be famine and you’re a man than do that it goes the same way for straight men and gay, be what the hell you want to be. First off this guy even says he undertook the what, "he thinks" is a classic American project of self-improvement. I laugh at that statement because first of all, what is a true American, and how does that go into class, and ethnicity? Me being the black man I am right now, being America doesn't come with many benefits especially when you have darker skin. To me I always said that light skin African Americans are the new white, my color was never designed to be a part of this America in my belief so when the narrator was saying that he had already lost his argument from the get and last but not least. Who cares what he thinks lol, I mean I try to respect everyone’s opinions as long as it’s not complete bs, but this is by far just so Fucking ridiculous lol as my man RZA would say I mean come on, really, you are honestly gonna tell me to resist my desires because someone else told me too? I wonder what this guy does when he has overly sexually urges lol.
