Because I have an appointment at the
eye doctor in a few minutes, I'm gonna have to leave with with
something old; in this case, something from 2014.
Something brand-new tomorrow because,
as far as I can tell, I don't have an appointment in sight! (Get
it...”sight”, because I'm going to the eye doctor today? Okay;
never mind...)
8-)
******
(as originally posted May 20, 2014)
That's interesting. I never would've
expected the number to be that high.
I came across a statistic a couple of
days ago, and I have to admit it surprised me a little bit. The
statistic said that 58% of men are okay with a woman who's more
athletically inclined than are they. It surprised me for two
reasons—one, the male ego, and two, it's nice to know I'm not
alone.
I have no problem with a woman (or
women) who is more athletic than I. In fact, I've been married to a
woman more athletic than I for a quarter of a century now. Loraine's
a natural athlete; in fact, any athletic inclination I've shown is
because she either convinced me to go try something or showed me how
much fun it could be. So like I said, I have no problem with
anything like that. Some people have it, some people don't.
And I certainly know that I don't.
The fact that the number was 58% of men
was a little shocking, too, because of, like I said, the egos of a
certain class of males. I might be wrong about this—I'm certainly
wrong about most things these days—but it seems to me like there's
a whole class of men out there whose ego or whose competitive nature
wouldn't allow them to be in the company of athletic women. I mean,
I know that men's attitudes about these sorts of things are
(thankfully) evolving; I guess I just didn't realize they were
evolving quite that quickly.
Good for the Y chromosomes, I guess!
I have to wonder what the reaction will
be when there's a woman athletically inclined enough to join a pro
sports team. Will that event be treated the same way as when Jackie
Robinson took the field for the first time, with barely concealed
hatred? Or will it be more like when the Rams drafted Michael Sam
last weekend, and greeted with a collective shrug from most of the
population? I'd hope it would be more like the latter; after all,
times and feelings are changing, but until it happens, you might
never know.
Hopefully, though, some year soon, a
much larger percentage of men than 58% won't care if there are women
who are more athletic than they are, or who earn more money than they
do, or have more power than they do. We're all human beings, after
all. We're all in the same boat together. If one person has more of
an ability in a certain area than another, should it matter one iota
the gender of the person with more ability?
No, it should not. And that's all I'm
gonna say about that.
(jim@wmqt.com),
who likes athletic women, one in particular.
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