A Man's Vision of Love:
An Examination of William Broyles Jr.'s Esquire Article
"Why Men Love War"
History 266 Sec 004
The University of Michigan
11-22-2000
Prepared For
Ken Swope
Prepared By
Mike Martinez
"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. This is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellow men. Our relationship with out economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness. To death."
John Fowles in The Magus......
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