Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!
I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.
There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.
The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.
I still feel a spike of anticipation when 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel' strikes up and, in these andropausal years, I am unexpectedly moved by 'Away in a Manger'.
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause.
