Thursday, January 31, 2013
Women Dialog Roles
-So in the old old model, the men hunt and the women
hang back to tend the campfires and the running brats?
-Correct. And then the triumphant return with the
bloody pigs!
-And we enthuse over the tribal cheer. A great moment!
-There follows the ritual butchering.
-Anything involving the gods we’re naturally held
out from.
-Also correct. But everyone sees the rightness of this.
-Fast forward to the Twenty First Century. Our Golden Age
just barely started.
-Both parties out hunting.
-The Great Overgod of Commerce demanding it thus.
-The homefires cold, the children gorged with sex
and video games.
-Well, we nonetheless lead in one important category.
-Which is? (And I
hope that verb excoriates with
its sarcasm.)
-Exhaustion.
-Amen amen I say to you that if only two women see
the light,
and then two more, and then...!
-As I said: Exhaustion!
Labels: Anthropology, chores, men, sex roles, women
