Fire in the John: The Manly Man in the Age of Sissification

by Alfred Gingold

You're not a Lumberjack - and that's okay. A new world movement is under way. Men are reinventing themselves, mostly as whimpering percussionists who like fairy tales. These are the New Men, in touch... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312074832
• ISBN13: 9780312074838
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

I'm not a sissy, darnit!!!!

Alfred Gingold is some sort of humorist, I suppose. In this book, parenthetically titled (The Manly Man in the Age of Sissification), he lampoons the Men's Movement. The two main treatises, Fire in the Belly and Iron John, are here eviscerated, mocked, and otherwise brutalized. An enlightened man like me felt really hurt, and shamed by Mr. Gingold's easy manner and brutish denial of his inner-most feelings. He ridicules the notion that erectile dysfunction may be caused by a disconnection to my, or one's, inner Warrior. Still, if I allowed myself to let go of my shame and fear, and embraced my inner Trickster, the book might actually be funny. But that would take so much work!(Does anyone have a hanky?)