[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday POEM
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:07:37 -0500
Lawrence Helm wrote:
Thanks to my misreading of Julie's note, I have found myself thinking
about Mike's poem all morning.
If we examine the way our species developed, we see that in general,
men selected women for their beauty and women selected men for their
ability to take care of them. Perhaps then, the grand passions have
typically belonged to men rather than women because look there: isn't
she beautiful? Isn't she perfectly wonderful (meaning beautiful in
movement and speech)?
Think of all the grand-passion love poetry written by men. What of
the objects of their passion? Did any of those women write poetry?
No, of course not. They were beautiful. They didn't need to.
If you want a real laugh about men and women I would recommend the book
THE MANIPULATED MAN. It's by Esther Vilar. Actually quite funny. She's
an anti-feminist. She says women have ALWAYS been in charge, it's just
that men are so stupid that they don't realize it. Men think they are in
charge when they work themselves to death for women.
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"Never attribute to malice that which can be
explained by incompetence and ignorance."
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John Wager john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Lisle, IL, USA
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