The Cocks May Crow…

A Tale from a former Washingtonian – Diane Noboa

The battle of the sexes is probably a topic you are very familiar with. No one can escape the controversy that our differences generate…we think different, we act out of different motivations, our way of expressing ourselves can’t be more opposite, we confuse each other with what we really want to say sometimes, we play love and hate games with each other that border on insanity and yet, there is something deliciously peculiar about the way we are interwoven. Man and woman are made for each other. Made to complement each other and become one.Procreation (as I am sure you are aware of) is an old and well known activity we’ve engaged in since the beginning of time.

I’ve read so many essays and books on our differences, I can’t begin to enumerate them, we could talk until next year about them…and without a doubt they all agree on one point: we ARE different. But how different are we really? Have you thought about the fact that “Woman” has “Man” in it? We could easily be in front of a word game here…let’s see:

Mrs. has “Mr.” in it;
Female has “Male” in it;
She has “He” in it;

OK, you get it. This is that message circulating around our spam folder…but have you given it a second thought? Why in the bejeezus would these words – meant to describe man – be part of a woman word? Look at the four examples I give you, why is “man” in everything “woman”? And please don’t think about the obvious, but rather challenge yourself to look beyond the manly perspective into the subliminal…Now look at these and tell me there isn’t a direct relation between the most important male accusations about our behavior…and MEN! How simply insane is MENtal illness; MENstrual cramps; MENtal breakdown; MENopause; GUYnecologist AND when we have REAL trouble, it’s a…HISterectomy!!!

I propose we, as women, humbly agree with men (observe the word play – you’ll never be free from this analogy again), and acknowledge we are very much affected by them. They are part of us in more ways than one. They could, in fact, be proportionally related to the magnitude and severity of said maladies. I mean, as kids (and mine are all boys) they come into the world as rambunctious little tornadoes and they bring all this incredible and marvelous HAVOC to our lives and in everything they do. How they play, how they fight, how they eat, how they dress, it’s a crazy mess and something, I clearly know, I could not live without.

To serve my point, I love men. I appreciate them and I can’t tell you enough about my little musketeers. And although some guys grow up to become complete jackholes (hmm…perhaps these are the men that are included in the above mentioned disorders and maladies) others are supreme in their masculinity and absolutely wonderful specimens that honor women and make it so incredibly joyful to have them in our lives. Even bad boys are good to have around us sometimes…splashing color when we’re bored

I learned from my English Literature and Political Science courses at Trinity College, we ultimately believe we have discovered sliced bread by acknowledging this dichotomy between the sexes, but this conversation is older than time itself and doesn’t discriminate based on race, age or class…Enjoy the quotes and share them with your friends!! They will no doubt stir up quite a discussion on your FB profile…

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”  ~ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.

“He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.”  ~ William Shakespeare (1564-1616) British poet and playwright.

“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son — and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.” ~ Helen Rowland (1875-1950) American journalist and humorist.

“The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg.”  ~ Margaret Thatcher (1925-?) British statewoman.

“When women go wrong, men go right after them.” ~ Mae West (1892-1980) American actress and playwright.

“The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.” ~ D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English writer.

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