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Dear Man: I was reading something on the Internet…
Dear Woman: Uh-oh. That can be a real bear trap.
Dear Man: No kidding. Because there’s no way to “vet” articles on the Internet, I don’t know whether to believe them or ignore them–simply because they’re on that medium. But anyway, it was written by this guy who said it was just natural, in the evolution of our species, that men are meant to be the head of the house and women are supposed to be submissive.
Dear Woman: I hate that word.
Dear Man: Submissive?
Dear Woman: Yeah. It’s got all sorts of negative implications to me.
Dear Man: I agree. But submitting to wisdom, goodness, kindness, knowledge and progress is a good thing.
Dear Woman: Yeah, but that’s not what they mean by submission. Their definition of submission is that if someone has a penis, he’s in charge.
Dear Man: And the vagina is supposed to give in to the wishes of the ruling penis.
Dear Woman: This conversation’s getting weird.
Dear Man: It is, isn’t it? Is it because of the words we’re using, or because the idea of submission is basically inhuman?
Dear Woman: I don’t think it’s inhuman. There are times I need to submit. There are times I need to submit to women.
Dear Man: But the word is so ugly.
Dear Woman: Yeah, it’s half of the problem in my opinion.
Dear Man: What’s the other half?
Dear Woman: Oh, the way they say, in this snarky voice, “Women are smarter than men.”
Dear Man: Maybe we’ve found the problem. You’ve got two sides of the same coin. You’ve got some men who want women to submit to them no matter what, and some women who want to be dominant by insisting they’re smarter.
Dear Woman: I think that is the problem. I hate both of those thoughts. Why can’t we be just be logical about it?
Dear Man: Logical in what way?
Dear Woman: Try this on. Sometimes you know more than I do and it’s okay. It’s okay that you know more, and it’s not the end of the world that in this particular instance, I know less.
Dear Man: Sometimes you know more, and it’s still okay. I don’t have to fall into a giant vat of gooey glue with all the females of the species, and appear to be weak simply because in one situation, I don’t know as much.
Dear Woman: Let me go on. Then there’s you and me. Sometimes together we know nothing, and that’s okay if we admit it.
Dear Man: That means we are looking for something to be submissive to.
Dear Woman: I never thought of it that way, but it is true. Knowing nothing is a positive position if you’re aware of it and you’re looking for input.
Dear Man: Can I conclude with this? That means that every single day of our lives, we know that there are people who are smarter than we are, and that ends up being the best okay–because we can tap their wisdom and get the benefit.
Dear Woman: So sometimes you have the edge and I submit to you.
Dear Man: Likewise, sometimes you are ahead of the game and I submit your way.
Dear Woman: And it’s possible for both of us to be ignorant and we’re searching for a place to submit.
Dear Man: Which means we have to be willing to acknowledge that there are smarter people.
Dear Woman: And it doesn’t matter if they’re male or female–just that in this given situation, they have what’s needed.
Dear Man: Do you think we could sell that?
Dear Woman: Well, let’s be honest. Somebody had to come along and sell people on the idea that men were intended to be the head of the household…
Dear Man: …and that women are smarter than men.
Dear Woman: Neither idea is true.
Dear Man: So I think we’ve got a shot at convincing people that we submit to each other … based upon who has the best insight.
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