[lit-ideas] Re: Men ents weakness.

  • From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 16:59:40 -0500

Ha!  Yes, I've known a couple of women in my lifetime who were irresistibly
attracted to untamable men.  They always knew such relationships were damned
at the start, but still they loved the feral in them more than they loved
themselves, I guess, or something like that or maybe nothing at all like
that, women confuse me..  In some human beings predictability is not their
strong suite.  They are the interesting ones.

Mike Geary
Memphis


On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM, John Wager <jwager@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mike Geary wrote:
>
>>    "Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my
>> father, because they would upset him.  It is well known that women can deal
>> with this sort of thing better than men can.  Men are not to be told
>> anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the
>> sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them.  For instance men
>> often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not
>> accustomed.  For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line
>> at the Red Cross donor clinic.  Men, for some mysterious reason find life
>> more difficult than women do.  (My mother believes this, despite the female
>> bodies, trapped, diseased, disappearing , or abandoned, that litter her
>> stories.)  Men must be allowed to play in the sandbox of their choice, as
>> happily as they can, without disturbance; otherwise they get cranky and
>> won't eath their dinners.  There are all kinds of things that men are simply
>> not equipped to understand, so why expect it of them?  Not everyone shares
>> this belief about men; nevertheless, it has its uses.."
>>
>> -- Margaret Atwood. "Significant Moments In The Life Of My Mother'
>>
>> Now THAT'S true philosophy!
>>
>> I'm in love with two women now.  Gail Collins of the NYT and Margaret
>> Atwood.
>>
> How about a nomination for a third female paramour?  You might find Esther
> Vilar's ideas at least outrageous and over-stated, if not interesting.
>  Here's a sample:
>
> "If a young man gets married, starts a family, and spends the rest of his
> life working at a
> soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and
> responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only
> for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys
> it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he
> wants, and facing woman when he meets her, on equal terms and not as one of
> a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no
> place in its midst."
>
> (The Manipulated Man, 1971)
>
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