Word: aguanno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them are not anywhere in sight. Invisible, that's what they are, even to themselves. They creep around feeling "helpless, really helpless," apologizing when outraged feminists catch them displaying what is called, with great scorn, "too much male energy." Such are the views, anyway, of Tony D'Aguanno, Michael Blyth and Chic Drolette, three psychological therapists from Berkeley, Calif., who have started what they call a "male empowerment group." Not a support group, if you please, although what goes on in,this subversive cell is much like what men heard leaking out from under the closed doors...
Response to the new group suggests that they may be on to something. "I don't know what it's like on the East Coast," says D'Aguanno-people in Berkeley say this a lot, seeing themselves as leaders in a very long column of marching people, who have no way of knowing whether stragglers at the column's tail end have put on their hiking boots yet-"but out here for the past 20 years, 'male' has been equivalent to 'negative.' " The group filled to its assigned size of eleven negative...
...them that clients come in "all slumped over, feeling awful. They're carrying the old male role around on their backs, the authoritarian provider, but it doesn't work any more. They've got female bosses now, and their wives and kids are rebelling." D'Aguanno, 37, a tall man, somewhat slighter than Drolette and no fan of Hollywood's Duke, says they have all noticed that the disarmament movement, to pick an example, is "about two-thirds women, which is fine"-he says this in the way people speak when they mean something...