The Naive Male

Written by Robert Bly

Narrated by Robert Bly

When a woman or a father attacks a naive male, he immediately opens himself up and takes the attack right into himself. "Oh, yes, that is true. I am really bad!" It does not occur to him that the attack may be something quite different. Maybe the woman or father is angry at something else and is displacing or projecting the anger onto the man. The naive male takes in the attack, feels the wound and then bends over, psychologically. When the bull comes, the naive male wears a red-vested stomach. He just

stands there and takes it. However, some women might say, "Why didn't you just jump aside.

Then we could have

gone to the movies."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Better Listen
• Release date: Jan 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781615449576

Robert Bly

Robert Bly's books of poetry include The Night Abraham Called to the Stars and My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy. His awards include the National Book Award for poetry and two Guggenheims. He lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota.