Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekmdp!markp
From: markp@tekmdp.UUCP (Mark Paulin)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Alan Alda
Message-ID: <2283@tekmdp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 13:57:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekmdp.2283
Posted: Fri Oct  7 13:57:59 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 20:07:52 EDT
Lines: 29


>> I wouldn't mind the fact that the man is a quiche-eating wimp, if some women
>> I know weren't constantly holding him up as a paragon of masculine virtue.
> -----------
> Why is it that so many of these tough, masculine he-men are so disturbed by
> such a "quiche-eating wimp" as Alan Alda?  What are they afraid of?  That
> their women (*their* women?) might be more attracted to men who don't behave
> like pseudo-macho clods?  Nonsense!  (Sounds like a case of the famed
> testosterone poisoning to me :-)
>
> [This doesn't excuse Alan Alda from having some very obnoxious egotistical
> qualities, which indeed he does.  I don't see people complaining about these,
> though.  Only about his being a "quiche-eater".  Hmmm, I guess those
> qualities are OK.....]
-----------

That first line is mine, but I don't really consider myself a "he-man".  And I
also do not think I am a "pseudo-mach clod".  What I am afraid of is not Alan
Alda.  What I *am* afraid of is the attitudes of people who classify men into
"Alan Aldas" vs "pseudo-macho clods".  Where has the middle ground gone?
I agree that there is such a thing as testosterone poisoning, but an equally
offensive affliction is testosterone deprivation.


Next time a woman asks me, "Why can't you be more like Alan Alda?" I'm gonna
bust her in the mouth, I'm such a clod.  ;-)

Mark Paulin
...tektronix!tekmdp!markp