Seen and photographed (that’s the hard part) in Lexington, KY and Cincinnati, OH this past week.
Coexist, but as a lesser being if you’re a man. Amazing how much hatred lives in the hearts of feminists.
This guy appeared to be a fifty something businessman. I wonder if he thinks leaving over $16,000,000,000,000 in debt to our children and grandchildren is “voting for Kids?” Maybe he means he’s voting for kids to pay off his debt. I thought about giving this guy the benefit of the doubt since the Obama sticker says ’08. But, if he’d changed his mind the bumper sticker would be gone.
I liked the “fish without a bicycle” line back when I was in high school, not so much out of any hostility to men as because it seemed like a snappy comeback to “you’re nothing without a man” messages (the kind that encourage us to be desperate if we lack a boy friend). By the time I was finishing college, I no longer liked it, because I’d concluded that it made men sound, not just not necessary to a good life (which is true, at least in the sense that we don’t all need to be in a romantic relationship to be complete), but useless (which surely isn’t true). I like the Coexist bumper sticker, though, and may even get it for my own car sometime.
Interesting about the high school bit. Not being a female, I’m not fully familiar with the female experience (obviously). My daughter is more open with me than with her mother as he mother always finds a reason to criticize and condemn her, but, still, she doesn’t tell me everything. She confides more in her friends.
One thing I have noticed, since it’s totally obvious, is that since she got her driver’s license and I bought her a cute, little 2003 Hyundai Elantra is that she’s not as desperate to have a boyfriend. She broke up with her boyfriend about a month after getting her car and hasn’t had a boyfriend for about 4 months which is the longest she’s gone without a boyfriend in ….(in that silly female voice) forever.
Now that she’s able to go out and about on her own, boys don’t seem as necessary. Fine by me. She doesn’t bad mouth boys or such either. (She got herself a job and pays for all her own gas and covers most of her other monetary needs too. I’m in heaven.)
Good for her. Being able to go out and about on your own, not finding boys necessary, but not badmouthing them either, is the balance I’d like to see in a teenage girl, the one that gets you good relationships when you do find them.
So a woman without a man is like a teenager without a car?