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WHAT DO WOMEN WANT?
This age-old lament attributed to the long-suffering male really cries out for a definitive answer. We cannot hope to end the question being asked, but just for the hell of it we decided to conduct some virtual-cyber-interviews with a large population of women-in-the-know. Here's a synopsis of our findings.
What
do Frenchwomen want? Libertè, Egalitè, Sororitè (as
well as Fraternitè) and they made their point. Now it is law in
France that any party putting up candidates for political office must put
up an equal number of women and men for that office.
Christine
Todd Whitman, Environmental Protection Administrator in the Cheney/Bush
Cabinet, would just love to have the boys clue her in when they flip flop
on environmental campaign promises. She finds it difficult to walk having
been cut off at the knees. Following her appointment,
she schlepped around several countries telling them that the United States
would regulate its carbon monoxide emissions now being dumped into the
atmosphere. Now, even crawling is difficult for her.
The
many groupies who flock to celebrities of music and sport just seem to
crave more and more indignities, including urine, dumped on them from the
stars they grovel to. The boys are more than happy to be the training ground
for these future devotees of Laura Doyle.
Laura
Doyle in her book, The Surrendered Wife, wants women to surrender
and submit to their husbands. "Surrendering
works best," she advises, "if you have a higher power" as
in the 12-step program for addicts. A wife should let hubby
handle all of the money even if she is the one earning it. She calls herself
a feminist but most women are calling
her something else.
Julia
Roberts is much more than just a "Pretty Woman." She knows
exactly what she wants: "He's [Dubya] embarrassing," Roberts
recently confided to friends and associates, according to sources. "He's
not my president. He will never be my president". Roberts turns animated
when discussing politics. She told an audience last year: "Republican
comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant...
I looked up Democrat. It's of the people, by the people, for the people."
Kelly
wanted to be able to afford a home for herself and her children. She got
a lot more. This week she moved into a brand new house in South Burlington,
Vermont. It was made affordable because of some "people projects"
instituted by the former Democratic administration. Only
women planned and built her blue, two-story house. There must be a special
karma in a house where the hand of man has never set foot. ;-)
Self-defined
women want among other things (as Tennyson wrote): "To strive, to
seek, to find and not to yield."
As you can see, women's wants can vary widely, but in the majority of our virtual interviews we found some commonalties. Most felt all the sphincters of our country tighten when the "reptiles" seized the White House and Congress. Quite suddenly a leadership that was warm blooded and sensitive to children, women, the environment and working people had turned to a cold and calculating entity that "put corporate interests first."
The plunging stock market, then the roll back of President Clinton's labor and environmental initiatives that intimately affect women has put their collective teeth on edge. The cold and calculating aura from this administration is beginning to impact on everyone -- 34 million people in the U.S. are exposed to drinking water supplies with elevated levels of arsenic. Despite this, Dubya has just rescinding Clinton's previous order to decrease acceptable levels of arsenic in our drinking water. http://www.star-telegram.com/columnist/ivins2.htm
What do women want? Most would rather have Clinton with all his warts than the present mean-spirited and destructive administration. There are rumblings of a march on Washington already. Now is the time to volunteer to work in the polling places in your area and/or get out the vote and educate the voter -- no more bites on our ass by butterflies! The elections in 2002 will soon be here where we can vote Repugnants out of Congress as a warm up for tossing the frat boy out of office in 2004. Hoo rar!
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Copyright
2001 Renee T. Louise and Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D. These articles may be republished
for noncommercial use only, provided that they are copied intact, and that
this copyright notice is attached. Address all queries to: twanda@gendergappers.org.
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