Midnight Mike
2008-05-08, 03:22 PM
And so we taught them the merits of changing their socks and soaping their armpits.
Perhaps we bought them style magazines, the odd designer label and a dab of face goo, too, that we might enjoy a kiss without our faces being rubbed raw.
We forced them to learn one end of a nappy from another so that they might bask in the admiration of friends when they demonstrated their dexterity with a safety pin.
We patted them on the back for donning a pinny and cooking a four-course evening meal.
Especially if they'd shopped for it, too.
We preached to them the importance of equality, within and without the workplace. We harangued them for their "sexism", real or imagined.
We praised them beyond measure if they managed to shed a public tear.
We belittled the essence of masculinity. Even when, on the face of it, we meant no harm.
We've even turned the tables so much that today it's men, not women, who are often the objects of naked physical desire.
Take, for example, Germaine Greer, who this week told a gathering of 200 boys at Winchester College that she had rarely been in a room with so much masculine beauty.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/f ... 9&ito=1490 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=564654&in_page_id=1879&ito=1490)
Perhaps we bought them style magazines, the odd designer label and a dab of face goo, too, that we might enjoy a kiss without our faces being rubbed raw.
We forced them to learn one end of a nappy from another so that they might bask in the admiration of friends when they demonstrated their dexterity with a safety pin.
We patted them on the back for donning a pinny and cooking a four-course evening meal.
Especially if they'd shopped for it, too.
We preached to them the importance of equality, within and without the workplace. We harangued them for their "sexism", real or imagined.
We praised them beyond measure if they managed to shed a public tear.
We belittled the essence of masculinity. Even when, on the face of it, we meant no harm.
We've even turned the tables so much that today it's men, not women, who are often the objects of naked physical desire.
Take, for example, Germaine Greer, who this week told a gathering of 200 boys at Winchester College that she had rarely been in a room with so much masculine beauty.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/f ... 9&ito=1490 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=564654&in_page_id=1879&ito=1490)