The Image Of The Woman As We

Hostility Is Expressed In A Number Of Ways. One Is Laughter.

The Image Of The Woman As We Know It Is An Image Created By Men And Fashioned To Suit Their Needs.

In Many Patriarchies, Language, As Well As Cultural Tradition, Reserve The Human Condition For The Male. With The Indo-european Languages This Is A Nearly Inescapable Habit Of Mind, For Despite All The Customary Pretense That 'man' And 'humanity' Are Terms Which Apply Equally To Both Sexes, The Fact Is Hardly Obscured That In Practice, General Application Favors The Male Far More Often Than The Female As Referent, Or Even Sole Referent, For Such Designations.

You May Well Ask How I Expect To Assert My Privacy By Resorting To The Outrageous Publicity Of Being One's Actual Self On Paper. There's A Possibility Of It Working If One Chooses The Terms, To Wit: Outshouting Image-gimmick America Through A Quietly Desperate Search For Self.

Hell, I Don't Want To Grow Old At All. I Never Want To Die.