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Dear Man,
I’m tired of being afraid.
I hate fear. It is so uncontrollably fearful.
I’m afraid of being weak and I’m also afraid of not being weak enough to fit in.
Or maybe it’s that I’m tired. Yes, I’m tired of being the weaker sex. How can you call someone the weaker anything and contend it’s not an insult? In what sense is weakness ever a positive? It is one thing and one thing only: weak.
It enables you to relegate me to positions for easy manipulation. I despise it. And then if manipulation doesn’t work, you can become abusive. And since I’m weak, I’m supposed to fall under the spell of your aggression.
I’m supposed to believe that if I have an opinion, it’s a complaint. If I have a complaint, it’s a bitch.
If I have a bitch, it’s an insult to your manhood. And if I insult your manhood, I’m a lousy woman.
How can you define being a woman by how well men think you act your role?
Dear Woman:
Don’t you think I’m afraid, too? I’m afraid of failing to be strong.
Who in the hell would I be if I’m not strong? I would risk being a pussy, right? Which simultaneously, by the way, insults you because it attributes weakness to being female.
So I’m supposed to figure out on my own what it means to be strong. Forgive me for assuming that would entail getting rid of anything that resembles weakness–feelings, tears, sensitivity, attention span…should I go on?
So to be a man, in a way I’m told to be a jerk to a woman. And from what you’re telling me, I further complicate your life by treating you as weak so I will appear stronger.
Dear Man,
You don’t understand. I don’t want you to work this out for me. I don’t want you to adapt to my fear and my fatigue.
I want to find a way to discover why we share so much in common, yet are taught that we’re so different.
Dear Woman:
Aren’t we different? Isn’t that supposed to be the allure of our attraction?
Dear Man:
I hope not, because quite honestly, it’s driving me nuts.
The things you think make you strong actually repel me, and then I resent the fact that I’m supposed to be attracted to what I find repulsive.
Dear Woman:
Repulsive, huh? Am I supposed to hear that without thinking you’re a bitch?
Dear Man:
Am I supposed to feel it without saying it?
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