Men have standing to tell women how to be women?

[Nakosis]

Gloria Steinem wrote a book entitled The Truth Will Set You Free But First It Will **** You Off.

I wonder if any man has standing in any venue to pretend to be an expert on women.

Imagine how fast things would change on this world if all woman crossed their legs until things improved?

I used to joke, sort of, that I was going for a PhD in Women’s Studies, but I eventually figured out that was truly dumbass, because only a woman can know what it’s like to be a woman.

Maybe in 2015 this little poem came out of me as was getting ready to go to a monthly Key West Poetry Guild reading,

"Bi Polar”

the world's favorite mood disorder
the cause of all human ails,
including wars,
if the demons aren't counted
bi polar disorder,
the destruction of the
south pole,
the feminine,
the north pole,
he ain't been
right in the head
since she’s been gone

Maybe in 2017, this ‘un showed up as I was getting ready to attend a monthly Key West Poetry Guild reading,

"Eve's Answer”

Vexing Truth
Life is Poetry,
Poetry is Life,
There's no more to say,
but that would make God
a really dull boy,
now wouldn't it, Eve?

So, Eve,What say you?
After all,You have been,
still are,
blamed,for everything that went wrong
with hu - MAN - i - ty.

Well, do you really want to hear
what I gotta say?
Is this one of those
be careful what you ask for pregnancies?
Well, is it?

Probably, but say what you wish -
I s'pect you need to be heard.

Heard?
Funny you mention ears.
Yes, ears.
Such important receptacles.
Yet filled with concrete,
****, propaganda, beliefs,certainties,
well, let's not leave out
SUPERSTITION and RELIGION,
now should we?

By the way,
where do ya suppose
God came from?
Or, out of?

And, why do ya s'pose
I made Eve
in my own IMAGE?’
'Cause Adam was
so bored and dull -
so ... predictable
He was BORING!!!
the **** outta me!!!
That's why.

Now
Shusssssh -
Don't go round quoting me
on any of that -
I've had quite enough of
the religious right
ta last me
the rest of forever!

Never really felt a need to, anymore than having someone go about telling me how to be me.

However, I can tell folks what works for me. Maybe it'll help them out, maybe it won't.

 

[Shaul]

So does the Pope, and most men, you’re in good company

You presume to speak for the Pope and "most" men? What proportion of women agree?

 

[Pogo]

The men in the early Christian church left a lot of interesting stuff out of their Bible.

A quick Google search snagged:
I
n rabbinic literature Lilith is variously depicted as the mother of Adam's demonic offspring following his separation from Eve or as his first wife. Whereas Eve was created from Adam's rib (Genesis 2:22), some accounts hold that Lilith was the woman implied in Genesis 1:27 and was made from the same soil as Adam.

27God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female* he created them. 28God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.

What I never grokkedt, if Adam and Eve were the first two people, and they had Cain and Abel, and after Cain killed Abel, it was just the three of them, but thanks to fast Google search:

And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. Genesis 4:17 relates that after arriving in the Land of Nod, Cain's wife had a son with him, Enoch, in whose name he built the first city.

How did the Nod people get there? Beamed down from a spaceship. Lost chapters of the Jewish Scriptures. It’s Eve’s fault? It’s Lilith’s fault?

I once had a Christian history buff tell me the people in Nod were the product of Even and Cain’s children, it was done in that way back them.

But then, maybe it was Lilith and Adam’s kids in Nod and Call married one of his half sisters?

Or Eve and Cain?

 

[We Never Know]

Well, women sure do think they have the right to tell men how to be men, so fair is fair.

I've heard both men and women tell a male to man up, be a man about it, act like a man.
Never heard anyone tell a female to woman up, be a woman about it, act like a woman.

 

[JustGeorge]

I've heard both men and women tell a male to man up, be a man about it, act like a man.
Never heard anyone tell a female to woman up, be a woman about it, act like a woman.

I wonder why.

 

[We Never Know]

I wonder why.

Good question, especially considering the title of the thread.

 

[JustGeorge]

Good question especially considering the title of the thread.

My ex once told me I was the only woman he knew that could wear heels and still walk like a man.

To his horror, I took it as a compliment.

Looking back, I should have taken them off and had him put them on and show the room how to walk in heels like a woman, if he knew so much about it...