In Epstein’s despicable phrase
In the 1990s, while working on my book “Woman: An Intimate Geography,” I mentioned the project to Larry Smith, a middle-aged editor at Parade magazine. He shook his head in astonishment. “I’ve never understood women,” he said. “When I was young, I wasn’t even sure women were people.”
Reading all the crap from the Epstein dump, including emails by high-powered male scientists and other predatory academics, I realize that nothing has changed. For too many men, women are, in Epstein’s despicable phrase, “a life support system for a vagina.”
Enough is ENOUGH!
I’ve been realizing that every day my whole adult life. Men are the norm, women are the weird aberration who can be ignored for most purposes.
None of us can be held responsible for the course taken by mammalian evolution, particularly as it has resulted in sexual dimorphism, with the average male being taller and stronger than the average female of the same age. It could possibly have gone the arachnid way, with female spiders huge by comparison with males of the same species, and in some cases devouring their lovers as something of a snack after the only sexual act they will ever perform in their entire lives.
It certainly would have brought a dramatic change to the Trump-Stormy Daniels saga, though whether for better or worse I cannot say. Though I have my suspicions. ;-)