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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Essay: Do men and women need each other?

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Do men and women need each other?

From the book: Chum for Thought: Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters by David Satterlee

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    Gender relations
#Feminism #LGBT

Chum For Thought:
Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters

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

Poem: No Ifs About It

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No Ifs About It

Life Will Get You in the End:
Short Stories by David Satterlee

from the book: Life Will Get You in the End:
Short stories by David Satterlee

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An indecent (ie: not ready for prime time) proposal. A young man practices proposing (to his sister's stuffed doll, from the sounds of it). He probably shouldn't try this one on a real girl. Birdies and puppies and fish, oh my!  


No Ifs About It

If I had a little bird
Who sang a song to me,
Then I would build a home for it
Hung high up in a tree.
   Or
If I had a puppy dog
Who’d cry in pure delight
Then I would lay a rug for it
So it could sleep at night.
   Or
If I had a bowl of fish
Who'd swim and flit around
Then I would make their water fresh
And keep them safe and sound.
   But
If I had you here with me
I’d love you for all time.
And I would share my life. I would
Be yours and you’d be mine.
                                 February 29, 1972