tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr) (06/11/84)
> Anecdote #1. Yesterday I watched the movie The Long, Long Trailer with > Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Lucy and Desi drive a trailer through the US > on their honeymoon. A friend and I were amazed at some of the dialogue, > Lucy made several comments about marrying to "take care of" Desi, etc. > This was the *classic* "a woman without a man is like nothing" theme. This is a classic example all right; a classic example of a woman distorting and twisting something in order to fit it into her ideology, despite any reality or logic getting in the way. If you look at the above quote, you'll see that a woman claimed to have married a man to take care of him, that is, HE needed HER. The only way this could be construed to mean that women need men is to somehow infer that the woman in this case needed to take care of a man. But even so, the real message is that men need to be taken care of by women, and not that women need men.
tron@fluke.UUCP (06/13/84)
An interesting point that Tim brings out, i.e. men need women. Could this be why women have been taught that they need men? This way men don't have to worry about their needs be taken care of, their women have been trained into this role. Fortunately this is the '80's, not the '50's. Peter Barbee decvax-+-uw-beaver-+ ihnp4--+ allegra-+ ucbvax----lbl-csam-+--fluke!tron sun-+ ssc-vax-+