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Dear Man: So are you a Martian?
Dear Woman: What?
Dear Man: John Gray, in his book back in 1992, claimed that men were from Mars and women were from Venus. So I guess that would make you a Martian.
Dear Woman: And you a Venetian.
Dear Man: Isn’t that a set of blinds?
Dear Woman: Yes. Can the blinds lead the blinds?
Dear Man: You didn’t go there, did you?
Dear Woman: I did.
Dear Man: I think it’s dangerous to think that the two genders of one species are from two different planets, with no plan to build a space ship.
Dear Woman: It’s a cop-out. I’m sure this Gray fellow was nice and all, but he didn’t realize that fostering the ignorance of an ongoing farce is not realism–it’s pandering.
Dear Man: Yeah. I guess it would just be easier for me to think you were nuts and I was fruitful.
Dear Woman: And easier for me to believe that you are incapable of understanding me.
Dear Man: Here’s the truth–we both have landed on Earth. We can’t escape to another sphere of living without jeopardizing our relationship and probably even the balance of life itself.
Dear Woman: So rather than making up a conflict or feeding a present disagreement, I think it’s contingent on both you and me to try to get along on Earth.
Dear Man: Well said. Let me start off by telling you that the first thing all Earthlings have to realize in order to survive here–whether they’re male or female–is that truth gives you freedom. If you lie, you’re bound to spend all your time covering up the lie. The only way to get freedom–whether you have a vagina or a penis–is to tell the truth. Otherwise, you’re in bondage.
Dear Woman: Can I offer a second? Commonality creates allies. I will tell you–Mars and Venus thinking is just a clever way to cover the nastiness of gender bias, just as the pursuit of “culture” is the new Jim Crow.
Dear Man: What do you mean by that?
Dear Woman: I mean, commonality creates allies. When we insist we’re different, it separates us into camps, which invites bigotry.
Dear Man: I get that. So the more we find in common, the more we become allies. As allies, we don’t need to fight anymore just to prove we’re uniquely male or female. So can I give a third one?
Dear Woman: Fire away.
Dear Man: Respect preserves love. Once we convince ourselves there’s some sort of quiet mutual disrespect going on, love rots. Love cannot survive disrespect.
Dear Woman: Boy, is that true. If I think that you think I’m kind of stupid, I will find it difficult to love you.
Dear Man: And if I think you think I’m lesser, I won’t have any motivation to give you my love.
Dear Woman: So let me make a bold statement–John Gray and those who followed him may have felt they were being contemporary with their observations, but what they ended up doing was driving a wedge between the only forces that can unite to make the world better–men and women.
Dear Man: We live on Earth, not Venus or Mars. We are not separated by outer space. Truth gives us freedom, commonality creates allies and respect preserves our love.
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