ON LOW-STATUS AND MASCULINE DEFIANCE

This passage is excerpted from Andy Nowicki's Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 4: On Being Unloved, which will be published soon.)

In a previous volume of this ongoing work, I spoke of the state of being unwanted. In this volume, I have selected to meditate upon the state of being unloved.

DON'T BE A 'SAD SACK': LOW-STATUS MAN'S FALL FROM GRACE

This passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's newly-published Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 3: On Being Unwanted, now available on Kindle and in paperback)

                                                                                            

Every man wants to be wanted.

Unfortunately, desire is not an infinite or even an abundant trait; therefore, some men must needs go unwanted. That is to say, their desire to be desired must needs go unmet.

What truly weeds out the wheat from the chaff, or the men from the boys, is how a man responds to being unwanted.

PRE-FEMINIST FEMINISM: "JOHNNY GET ANGRY"

by Andy Nowicki

Back in 1962, when the Rat Pack still held Beatlemania in check and JFK’s pristine, thus-far unpunctured pre-Dealy Plaza skull still held stately sway over his precious presidential brains, comely girl crooner Joanie Sommers released a whimsical little track called “Johnny Get Angry.”

The song, composed by Hal David and Sherman Edwards, presents us with that perennially vexing relationship dilemma: what’s a young woman to do when her strapping beau refuses to get even a little possessive?