Songs For The Struggling Artist

I have cracked it. I understand why so many men are so reluctant to wear their masks. I understand entirely. (There’s quite a bit of reporting about this gender gap in mask wearing. I’m going to lean into some binary generalizations here for effect, but gender is a spectrum and I know these things aren’t true for everyone.) I solved the mask mystery at a café where I witnessed a man in a Batman mask attempting to make a joke to the barista. When she didn’t get it, he just repeated it. He repeated it at exactly the same volume and with the same intonation. I couldn’t hear a word of it myself (I was a sufficient distance away) but I could hear the rhythm and the volume. He tried again but he finally gave up when she said, “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you because of the mask.” To read more of Is This Why Men Won't Wear Masks? visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.  This is Episode 227 Song: Sexy - Bright Red Boots Image by Kim Siever via Flickr To support this podcast: Give it 5 stars in Apple Podcast