q book: MEN CAN BE DICKS
MEN CAN
BE
DICKS
Written and Illustrated by Kichi
©2025 by JAKichi
Dedicated to all of us who love men …. and
to some men who love themselves a little
too much
“Nobility is being superior to your
former self”
― Winston Churchill
This book contains cartoon images
of penises and adult
language, so
Republicans, fake- Christians and prudes
ought to stop reading now.
This book is written for the love of men. It is meant to serve as a something of a mirror in which all
men will see a measure of themselves. And I hope its central parable will help men - and those who
love them, male and female – to better understand the dynamics of toxic masculinity. To paraphrase
Cassius and Shakespeare, “the fault lies in our stars and in ourselves.”
Men are beautiful creatures. As a group, as an idea, as a physical being, I love them.
I have been lucky enough to have known mostly good men, Gay and Straight. Men who are in control
of their emotions and their power. Men who are sensitive and appealing. Men who share more than
they take. My partner is such a man, and he is the best man I have ever known.
But many others who love men, both male and female, have not been quite as lucky as I have been.
It is impossible to avoid the truth that many men act out in ways that damage their wives and
partners, damage their own lives and the social fabric. Just read the headlines or the police blotter
in any newspaper.
Yes, women can also behave badly, but when a man misbehaves, it can be devastating to everyone
around him. That’s because men - muscular, powerful and aggressive - are still in charge mostly
everywhere. Men dominate government. They dominate business. Men dominate the bedroom
despite movements marching in the streets for female equality.
Scholars and researchers have attributed male aggression to the “Male Warrior Theory,”4, i.e., that
men are evolutionarily predisposed to hunt and kill for food, and presumably, to see a human he
doesn’t like as just another competing male to kill or a woman to conquer.
That argument must not be used as an alibi by men. Sex may have been destiny for men over the
millennia, but the male has a brain and needs to use it, too.
If the image of masculinity is to improve, men must be aware that a problem does exist. Men must
look in the mirror and recognize who they are. The purpose of this book to be one of those mirrors.
“MEN CAN BE DICKS”