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Do men and women need each other?
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Do men and women need each other?
My personal experience is that masculinity and femininity
complement each other very nicely. I become exceptionally moody and morose
without the company of women. In a mixed gathering, I prefer to be in the
kitchen, behaving myself like a mouse in the corner, instead of with the men
watching sports in the family room. And, I know that I really like being married
and having a feminine woman as my best friend.
Further, while lurking near widows and divorced women, I
have heard them confess that they “simply like having a man around.” It sounded
as if, like me, the simple presence of someone of the other gender satisfied a
palpably felt deficit.
The feminist Gloria Steinem famously asserted that, “A woman
without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." OMG! Didn’t Dr. Seuss put
a fish riding a bicycle in
