L. Watt

Detoxifying masculinity, or plain ol’ excellence in being human, well-told

Revisado: 08-05-23

This is an important work to add to the growing chorus of new voices on detoxifying masculinity.

I’m a white woman from a difficult past who is aligned with expanding the pool of recipients society treats with dignity, and I am fully ignorant of sports.

Stories like these help me process my grief from my own life with grace; reading/hearing stories from people so unlike me whose skillful and generous telling lays bare our common humanity gifts me the grace of solidarity with so many who live with pains and sorrows as diverse as life on Earth.

We don’t all learn to live, though, and one of the strengths of this story is not the athletic arc itself, but the introspection, voiced for all of us, from a deliberate thinker and feeler.

Masculinity, like humanity, is deep and raw; easy to get lost in. This is an important story about how to learn to live with self-determination, integrity, and depth amidst the complexity of all our lives.

The author’s reading sometimes strolls over powerful phrases or moments, hiding his excellent writing. I think this is worth both a listen and a read, and I might do both.

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