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Below are two not so
satirical dialogs on the subject of love and togetherness.
Land Of Singledom
A quite poignant
iconoclastic description of a disturbing disparity between the
sexes.
City
of Tents
A symbolic world in which
villages of tents exist in a desert where women and men live
alone in two separate distinct groups divided by a straight
bold bright white line.
Ours is not
to take things said personally,
but to ascertain their applicability.
Read e-mailed responses to these
Ideas:
Ken
To be best friends, you must
share a certain level of commonality, insight, taste, interests,
understanding of ones needs, nurturing, kindness, and appreciation.
You must be able to share a common acceptance of what is beauty.
Sue
About
The Author
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When we speak,
what we desire motivates what we are saying.
...a man or a woman
says to his or her lover, "I want to be an equal with you."
Here I apply to their wishes,
a congruent theorem analogous to my writings.
No matter how much we imagine,
fantasize, or romanticize about the idea of residing in a foreign
country like for example China or India, until we've actually
lived there within the culture itself, as an American, we cannot
possibly understand how radically different hence difficult
it is to function there.
No matter how much we imagine,
fantasize, or romanticize about the idea of being an equal with
our love, as a man or a woman, we cannot possibly understand
how radically different our socialization have made us...until
we actually try equality.
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The purpose of these webpages
is to cast light onto the subject of gender based inequities
and how this may be the main cause of the disillusionment of
so many marriages.
I base these writings on my own
dating experiences and conversations I have had with hundreds
of men and women.
These are solely my observations
and analysis and may not be seen from your prospective.
However, one needs to consider what is said here, viewing it
from an historic understanding as well as a socialization prospective;
meaning, gender difficulties stem from changes in traditions
with little or no change in human behaviorisms. And these
struggles may take much time to be reconciled, possibly many
generations.
It has only been since the late
1960s to early 1970s when people decided to change the roles
that humans play in marriage. It sadly may take many more
years to alter stereotypical behavior patterns in men-women
affairs.
There are those who believe that
this change should not happen, that possibly there is some edict
handed down from God which dictates that men and women need
to know their place of husband and wife.
But, I say onto all, humans are
statutorily and morally equal and to subjugate someone to anyone
else for any reason is, in my opinion, a sin against humanity.
Ed February 2002
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