
It took me a while to get around to it because, honestly, I hate the self-help genre.

Brightside” music video, a real velvet daddy.įor those of you who haven’t heard of it, Alan Downs’s The Velvet Rage-perhaps the most recommended book on this subreddit-is a self-help guide for young gay men. The title The Velvet Rage has, for whatever reason (I’m a trashy white millennial), always called to my mind Eric Roberts from the “Mr.


Let’s get the important stuff out of the way first.
