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29 November, 2005 - 1:42 a.m.
AMN: Part 3 of the book review

Again with the book review. I wrote this in the notebook I keep in my purse on the day before thanksgiving and never typed it. HAH. Again, written in the form of a letter to the boyfriend.

MoDo likes to slip in the sly witted knock-the-guy-down-a-peg-or-two crack. In a section on gentis, she dicusses the disappearing Y chromosome. Apparently, the Y chromosome is shedding genes faster than Tara Reid can take her top off in public, evolutionarily speaking. MoDo slips in a crack about the reason why men can't express themselves... it's because their genes can't either. *rolls eyes*

I beg to differ. If men can't express themselves, why are 75% of my favorite authors men? How about rock stars, poets, and song writers? What about the new wave of Emo and Metro guys who know how to say what they feel? What about You? According to MoDo, you don't exist. And that pisses me off. ok. i get it. MOST men are not willing to open themselves up like that, but MANY are. Again, I argue that men are changing. If don't think men are feminizing. I think we've reevaluated gender roles and just as we're allowing women to express their "masculine" traits, we're also allowing guys to express that softer side, too.

We're also limiting them with a glass ceiling, too. Women are bitches for being strong? Well, guys with feelings are sissies (or so the story goes). Is it retaliation? Why do women like it so much? Is it men again with the labels? Are they feeling threatened by men such as you who are more evolutionarily advanced? Ooh. Competition with an advantage. How Scary. I say, change or die. And not like that pressured "if you do feminine things, we'll throw rocks at you until you die" kind of way. Kind of like, that brutish man agression thing is passe.

In her discussion about male nipples and the female orgasm as vestigial organs (serving "no purpose"??? first of all, i LIKE male nipples, but i LOVE the female orgasm. sure, you're guaranteed one. But mine can last for ten minutes. HAH! beat that! I win.) she cites a lot of people who agree that the female orgasm serves no reproductive purpose. But having taken classes on sexuality, I know that it does. In addition to being quite persuasive in terms of getting women to HAVE sex, the process causes the cervis to bounce up and down, thus encouraging sperm to be sucked up into it (and therefore closer to the egg and all that icky baby-making crap). So MoDo should check her facts.

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