Mis(ter) Communication: Man-on-Man Coverage

(this article first appeared on The Good Man Project website on Dec. 10, 2011)

 

If you are a man, and there’s at least a fifty percent chance you are, you’ve likely experienced the following. You and a friend/co-worker/relative are talking about sports, and a conversation-adjacent woman sighs and announces, “Ugh, all you men do is talk about sports!” as if there could be nothing more trivial, useless or sad. But what is truly sad is the fact that these sports conversations between men are marginalized when they actually represent progress, evolution, and maybe even hope for the future of our planet. 

Let me explain, or, as Indigo Montoya once said, “There is too much. Let me sum up.”