Tony Parsons on life, death and breakfast jellemzők

If a young lover breaks your heart, or if you fall off your Harley, if you make a fool of yourself, well, that is what men do, and what we have always done. That is not a mid-life crisis. It's just the latest in a long line of cock-ups.
How about just a little sympathy for male stereotypical behaviour? It is who we are, and how we made it out of the primeval swamp. We are doing our best, we truly are...
The modern male probably retains a little too much of the old ways for his own good. The need to hunt, the desire to fight and the endless impulse to spill his seed. It doesn't make for a quiet life...