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1. Christopher says:
   

   Transcript for “Screams of the Void, Part II”

   1) Vice Principal: Thanks to your and your sculpture, our award-winning art teacher is on suicide watch, plus he needs a new liver for some reason.
   Poet: But I was just expressing myself creatively!
   2) VP: Public education is not about self-expression! It’s about standardized testing, bulimia, and sorting out who’s gay and who isn’t. I’ve no choice but to assign a week of detention.
   P: Oh yeah? Well maybe you should look at THIS!
   3) VP: Nice try, but in my 46 years on this earth I’ve carefully ensconced my own pain in an unbreakable fortress of subdued hostility, rage, and a phony tough guy attitude.
   P: Does that work?
   4) VP: YOU LITTLE PUNK BASTARD! I’LL RIP YOUR F@#$%ING THROAT OUT!!!
   P: Whoa! That’s awesome! I could totally see myself like this!
   5) VP: GAAAAAAAH!!!
   P: Ha ha! What a relief! I thought I was going to have to painfully re-experience my traumas to overcome them, but this is much easier!
   6) VP: I HATE MY FATHER! I HATE MY WHOLE F@#$%ING FAMILY!
   P: Yes, yes…ably demonstrated…you can stop now.
   7) VP: I’m so scared, Poet. If only someone would hold me, and love me…forever.
   P: Um…you did say “funny” didn’t you?

   Notes:
   Male rage is a product of a system that teaches young boys that any expression of emotion, be it sadness, fear, even joy, are weak, vulnerable, or “gay”. But the one emotion that is approved by this masculine stereotype is anger. This is how the emotional tension is released — by outrageous outbursts or perhaps through mixed martial arts competitions. The tougher and angrier they are, the more weak and fragile at their core. Taken out on wives and daughters, they are transformed into women’s issues — the wounds of the father.

   March 10th, 2008 at 7:43 pm

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