Tamara P Duvall wrote:
Me, I find these funny, but I'm puzzled by the lack of the OPOV (other point of view). Does it mean that there are no women slightly soured on the instituion of marriage?
It means that the other point of view isn't considered funny, for the most part -- the memory of the nineteenth century, when such complaints would have been serious, is still too fresh. Phyllis Diller did abuse Fang a lot; I don't recall any other husband-bashing jokes. Well, there's the comic strip Andy Capp, but that elicits disbelief that Flo would stay with Andy more often than it elicits a chuckle.
The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want? Sigmund Freud
If Freud ever asked such a question, it meant that he hadn't quite comprehended that women are people. I recall a fairy story -- an Arthurian myth, perhaps -- in which the get-rid-of-the-hero assignment was to answer that question. An old witch said that she'd give the hero an answer that would satisfy the king if he married her; he agreed, they married, she turned into a gorgeous young girl. The answer was "To have her own way," but I don't recall as the story recognized that the question was silly. Perhaps the posing of the question as an impossible task constituted such recognition. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
