issue #4 / spring-summer 2008
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Paul Jay
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originally published in the April 2008 issue of In These Times - reprinted with permission (copyright 2008 In These Times)

You know, when I write a book, I’m the only one who speaks in it. That’s really disturbing, dude. Think about it. It’s like a person who is sitting there with little dolls and going, “Hello, Billy, do you want a falafel?” “Yes, I do.” There’s something really reclusively weird about it.

But I just can’t imagine, as a man, you can become a human without encountering other humans, and the only way to encounter a human is by being vulnerable.

Which I would want to connect back to intimacy.

Well, that’s it. The access to intimacy is vulnerability.

I think we have a pun here in masculinity spelled with a “k”: mask-ulinity.

Well, there’s no question about it.

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