Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn read more
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
