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	Saturday, September 18, 2004

"Thor" challenged me in the comments to the "Body Beautiful" post on eyebrows, so I thought I'd better bring it forward where more WYW readers were likely to see it.


I answered:

Actually, I meant to get more specific about the whole idea long before this, but aside from dealing with some emails I haven't wanted to get into the WYW part of this blog just yet, and I won't until I can devote more concentrated time.

I'm still slaving away on the ghost-writing gig and I've been trying to get the blog changed over from the old location. This has involved trying to get the new categories and template designs tweaked to my satisfaction.

I also have to make a pretty elaborate costume for my daughter's sorority play (she's going to be Glinda, Good Witch of the West), and I've been editing the Dustbunny Novel into html format so I can start to post it, etc. etc.

But here's a quick and dirty overview of the of the "mythos" concept: you have to come up with a heroic model for yourself, a picture of yourself as an Ideal Guy (yes, I'm serious -- stop laughing) and then try to attain and maintain that ideal in your everyday life.

For one way of going about this, look at different masculine icons in literature, the arts, the movies, etc. and find one or two (or even three) that particularly appeal to you, that seem most like your ideal self, most like your inner masculine soul, and use them to construct your Heroic Ideal, the man you want to be.

Doing this helps you define yourself TO yourself, and makes you less dependent on (and over-reactive to) other people's perceptions and demands.

That's only part of the whole idea, of course, but the search for your personal icon(s) is FUN even if you can't manage to make it "work" for you.

For example, take this silly poll that I whacked together on another site as a way to think about what kind of guy you are: are you more "Smoothie" or more "Outlaw"?

I also want to start discussing the book in the sidebar, Passionate Marriage, which in some respects echoes my idea that you have to KNOW WHO YOU ARE as a first step toward getting what you want.

As I mentioned in the beginning, I'm unlikely to be able to devote major time here until the end of October. That includes the email that's piling up again.

Meanwhile I'm essentially just keeping the blog active (and testing category formats) with more frivolous posts. Remember, too, that I post everything to this page and if you only want the Why Your Wife... posts, you need to subscribe to or bookmark the WYW category.

Go to the WYW category homepage now.

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