You wrote about a topic that has been on my lips for the past two years, started with informal research done in my neighborhood in a post-industrial Southern Romanian town. From that research, what I found the most fascinating was the reluctance to read, to engage in the literary or poetic arts. Whenever the topic of books came up, which was seldom, because drunk cursing seemed more fun, all would express a strong repulsion towards the words inscribed on the pages binded between paper covers. It felt like a scream louder game, the first one affirming that he detests books, to end up with the last one condemning them and asking me sarcastically what is there to benefit from them? A failure of the Romanian education system? Easy to blame it all on it, but with the only available forms of entertainment in one’s small town being the bottle, the cigarettes and the slots, no wonder people turn away from intellectual pursuits.
Interesting topic, Cristi, thanks for showing such a powerful or powerless perspective of men nowadays.
Both men and women live different roles than they were told they would. we need to support each other to understand this shift. only together we can evolve even individually. us against you/ men against women/ men against men mindset will bring even more struggle in our growth.
how can we be more transparent about how we feel about the identity with the gender roles?
Thank you for this posts. In my 38 years of reading books and press articles, this is the first time I've felt "seen", as if somebody was describing my own real-life experience.
I feel this needs to be read by more people in Romania, it would be great if it was also available in Romanian.
Thank you!
You wrote about a topic that has been on my lips for the past two years, started with informal research done in my neighborhood in a post-industrial Southern Romanian town. From that research, what I found the most fascinating was the reluctance to read, to engage in the literary or poetic arts. Whenever the topic of books came up, which was seldom, because drunk cursing seemed more fun, all would express a strong repulsion towards the words inscribed on the pages binded between paper covers. It felt like a scream louder game, the first one affirming that he detests books, to end up with the last one condemning them and asking me sarcastically what is there to benefit from them? A failure of the Romanian education system? Easy to blame it all on it, but with the only available forms of entertainment in one’s small town being the bottle, the cigarettes and the slots, no wonder people turn away from intellectual pursuits.
Interesting topic, Cristi, thanks for showing such a powerful or powerless perspective of men nowadays.
Both men and women live different roles than they were told they would. we need to support each other to understand this shift. only together we can evolve even individually. us against you/ men against women/ men against men mindset will bring even more struggle in our growth.
how can we be more transparent about how we feel about the identity with the gender roles?
Thank you for this posts. In my 38 years of reading books and press articles, this is the first time I've felt "seen", as if somebody was describing my own real-life experience.
I feel this needs to be read by more people in Romania, it would be great if it was also available in Romanian.