The Men We Carry in Our Minds

291 – The Men We Carry in Our Minds – Scott Russell Sanders

Scott reflects back on childhood memories and observations of men working at a prison, on farms, and in the military. He uses deductive reasoning to move from the whole (men) to the parts (types of work and the lack of, home lives-women and children, etc.) and how it affected their lives in the process. He described his father’s progress from a laborer to a white-collar worker. Men’s so-called life privileges baffled him, and he found women’s grievances of life puzzling. If I read this correctly, at some point he became confused thinking that women had better lives than men and made a switch, certainly not the ending I was expecting.