The Good Men Project
"The Good Men Project aims to bring men together. There are stories about love and death, trauma and recover, and, ulitmaely, understanding."
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Shooting the Truth
So I got back to the world and I felt a certain arrogance washing over me, and a certain anger. I couldn't think about much except getting out again. My woman wanted me to go into therapy, but I didn't feel the need to pay an expert to facilitate this intersection—the intersection between the violence I saw every day in Iraq and people going blithely about their lives at home. And I wasn't going to cop to this war junkie stuff. I'd found a useful role in this world, a way to give evidence that has value. I had nothing to apologize for, nothing I needed to be diagnosed for. Some things in this world just are, and that's all right. They don't need to be satisfactorily resolved.
"Men have accounted for more than 70 percent of the 7 million jobs lost since the recession began in December 2007. For many men, the loss of a job is an existential event that cuts to the core of their being. If you are what you do - which is how many guys see it - then who are you if you no longer do what you once did?
Perhaps it’s just coincidence, but men seem to be under the cultural microscope at the moment, with a focus on the ways they cope, or don’t, with suddenly changing roles."
--THE BOSTON GLOBE, in its review of The Good Men Project
