Man Or Mutation

Chapter I
Creation

When thinking about the most powerful creature on the earth, Man, I would like to challenge my readers with the following questions: What is a Man? How and who is qualified to define a Man? What does a Man look like? What are his mannerisms? And who told you these things? If you can answer any of these questions are your answers based on a visual observation only? Do you have a definite image of a man? Are you comparing every Man with fundamental principles from your own experiences; or would your answers be derived from hearsay?

These were questions I pondered on as a child; later as a teenager and finally as adult. The men and boys in my life were all different and the women seem to be even more complex. And for these reasons I found it unlikely that people could be defined only by human anatomy.

As early as I can remember I would hear Women say “A man is goanna be a man”. It didn’t matter who these women were a family member, an educator, or women with no career or motivation at all. They all seem to have this encoded harmonically. It was quoted like the Apostle’s Creed. “A man is goanna be a man”. In some of the most horrific and devastated situations experienced by women, I could always count on someone confirming those words “A man is goanna be a man”. I found out much later in life that what this meant to each woman, that quoted it, could have entirely different implications.