Well-behaved women seldom make history.
\nLaurel Thatcher Ulrich<\/p>\n
My friend Nancy was married to a man she liked well enough.\u00a0 They had a little daughter together and life went along smoothly. When the little girl was 2 years old, Nancy went to a party and met the most exciting, marvelous romantic man she ever imagined.\u00a0 She danced two dances with him, called her husband and said, \u201cPut the baby to sleep. I won\u2019t be home tonight. \u00a0I am in love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wow.<\/p>\n
My buddy Helen nursed her husband through a six-year fight with cancer. The day after he died, she realized she was a millionaire. She booked a trip to India, took a vacation in Cuba, found a hot Samba dancer to squire her around and became a fan dancer. She never once wore black.<\/p>\n
These days, women are tough.\u00a0 They learn karate and they fight back.\u00a0 The day of The Little Woman is long gone .\u00a0 My father taught me that if there was a man in the room, a lady never touches a doorknob.\u00a0 If I tried that little trick today I would never get out of the room.\u00a0 Women today are liberated\u2026. But to me they aren\u2019t very interesting.\u00a0 They are overworked and underappreciated.<\/p>\n
Nora Ephron said that the only thing a woman gained from the Women\u2019s Movement is paying her own way. I see the modern matron, dressed in her trim executive suit, running an office all day, driving home battling rush hour traffic and stopping at the super market to pick up food for dinner.\u00a0 She pulls into the driveway, grabs her laptop and two bags of groceries, kicks the door open with her foot and staggers into the kitchen to put her purchases away.<\/p>\n
She pulls off her shoes, asks the kids about their homework, kisses her husband and says \u201cHow was your day, darling?\u201d<\/p>\n
She starts dinner and goes upstairs to change into something a bit less constraining than her office garb.\u00a0 You can\u2019t really do a job with dinner when you are constricted by a latex tummy controller and a push up bra.\u00a0 She manages to put together a stir-fry, salad and ice cream for dessert and calls everyone to the table.\u00a0 Her oldest son says he isn\u2019t hungry, the middle one takes his plate up to his room and her daughter refuses to eat anything but the ice cream.<\/p>\n
She cleans the kitchen, hauls out the hoover and does the rugs.\u00a0 She has been on the go since 6 a.m. when she got up to pack lunches for the children. She is too exhausted to make conversation and way too tired for romance.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s woman can try anything and be anything as long as she is willing to take less pay for twice as much work.\u00a0 She can be an executive that runs complex multifaceted companies.\u00a0 But she needs to ignore those snide remarks about emasculating men or being a bit\u2026well you know\u2026a bit ballsy.<\/p>\n
If this is liberation, I want none of it. I would rather be interesting and out of the box.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want to do it all for everyone.\u00a0 I want to do it all for myself.\u00a0 I am untamed and erratic.\u00a0 I wear feather boas in Tesco\u2019s and drink champagne for breakfast. I cook dinner naked and put on my slippers to get the mail. \u00a0I am wild. And wild is very interesting.<\/p>\n
When I walk into a room, the sun to rises and the blinds blink.\u00a0 I am so unusual, cows give me whipped cream and bread turns into toast. \u00a0\u00a0So do men.<\/p>\n
It seems to me that liberated women play so many roles they don\u2019t have time to be themselves. That is too tame for me. I want to be wild\u2026I want to be interesting\u2026I want to be fun.\u00a0 All it takes is a little determination and a lot of red wine.<\/p>\n
Once upon a time in the dark ages of the twentieth century there were man things and women things.\u00a0 Men took out the trash, fixed the cars and lifted heavy stuff.\u00a0 They drove cars and demanded food.\u00a0 They earned money.\u00a0 Women stayed at home and talked on the phone.\u00a0 They pushed buttons on their modern appliances, shopped at the mall and went to their psychiatrist on a weekly basis.\u00a0 They felt used.\u00a0 They had to give sex on demand and still cook dinner and wash the dishes.\u00a0 And so they rebelled.<\/p>\n
NOW they have it all\u2026..because they have to do it all.<\/p>\n
I think it is time to share the chores and divide the pleasures.\u00a0 The only problem is that no red blooded liberated woman wants to have sex with a guy in an apron\u2026.unless he isn\u2019t wearing anything else.<\/p>\n
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