Hmmm, OTH, my mother always said "You can't starve the cook" -- meaning she could always get what she wanted before serving.
Carolyn Carolyn Hastings Stow, MA USA > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W & N Lafferty > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:50 PM > To: Arachne chat > Subject: [lace-chat] well, there went my cool . . . > > > Tamara writes: > > one's cool over; it's just a modernised version of the old > "wisdom" I > > grew up with: "if there's only enough meat for one, then > the man gets > > it, because he works the hardest and deserves it the most. > Next in line > > are the children, because they're growing. Women can do without" > > > One way of looking at it is that if there is only enough meat > for one, then there's not much food about, and the tribe had > better restrict its numbers. The best way of doing this is > making sure a woman's > body fat is below a certain level (forget what), then she > can't fall pregnant. There's a book I have (somewhere) > called "Cannibals and Kings" which goes into this theory, and > makes the necessity to restrict tribal numbers in times of > shortage the reason for the > (historical) low ranking of women. Made sense to me when I read it. > > Kill off the number of men in warfare, the women can still > easily repopulate. Restrict the woman's ability to conceive, > you restrict tribe numbers. > > Doesn't apply today, of course, but gives one food (no pun > intended) for thought. > > Noelene in Cooma > Eating up so I have a good fat covering to withstand the cold - and > for no other reason! At 60, I don't think I'm a risk to > overpopulation! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing > the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
