2003 Soap Box Archives

Feminine Type People 06/16/03

There is a big unisex movement on nowadays with the proponents claiming
that there is little, save biological, difference between women and men.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. If the differences between
men and women were dollars they could make a considerable dent in the
national debt.

Of course, there are the obvious differences in overall strength
and has been proven that man is the strongest of the homosapien bunch,
Annika Sorenstam notwithstanding .

But there are more subtle differences that probably number in the
millions and are hard to pin down.

Now I base my opinions on the experience of having lived with the same
woman for close to forty years and observed the withers and whereforths
of daily cohabitation.

For instance, women operate on a different set of logic than men do.
Like driving twenty miles across town to save two cents a pound on
bananas or wanting to throw away one of your comfortable old tee shirts
just because it’s got coffee stains on it while insisting on keeping
some old worthless relic from the past.

My wife thinks I’m a neanderthal, “bull in the china closet” type of
person, and I’m not disputing the fact but I still insist that I have
the dexterity to move her favorite ceramic bowl off the table without
permanently damaging it. “Oh don’t do that, just wait I’ll do it!!!!”

Now my wife isn’t exactly enamored with NASCAR but she’ll still
sometimes ask me on Monday morning who won the race yesterday, just as
if she really cared. And that’s pretty doggone wonderful in my book.
What man would take the trouble to be so sensitive?

And I’m not ashamed to admit it, my wife beats me on the golf course.
She can go for months without picking up a club and walk on the course
and demolish her husband who practices almost religiously.

And to make things worse she knows what’s wrong with my swing and
doesn't hesitate to tell me about it. ”Slow down, keep your head behind
the ball, finish high, move the ball up in your stance”. All this from
a woman whose practice regimen is limited to hitting a few balls
occasionally before we start the round.

They say that it’s not possible for a human being to think about more
than one thing at a time. Not so with the female gender of the
species. My wife can think about several subjects at the same time and
articulate them in rapid fire dialogue. “We need to stop at the store
and get a loaf of bread, you forgot to carry out the trash, remind me
to get little Charlie a birthday card, they’re coming to fix the gate
Monday, your pants are unzipped.”

And people call women the weaker sex. Not hardly, they may not be as
physically strong as men but in just about every other department they
hold the winning hand.

Women are definitely different from men and I thank God for that fact.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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