Re: and off I go...
Kevin S. Wilson
still more ridiculous; for woman is the weaker sex. This consideration
enters in everywhere and confuses all. If she performs a great deed she
is admired more than man, because it is more than was expected of her.
If she is betrayed, all the pathos is on her side; but if a man is
deceived one has scant sympathy and little patience while he is present
- and laughs at him when his back is turned.
Look you, therefore is it advisable betimes to consider woman as a joke.
The entertainment she affords is simply incomparable. Let one consider
her a fixed quantity and one's self a relative one; let one by no means
contradict her, for that would simply be helping her; let one never
doubt what she says but, rather, believe her every word; let one
gallivant about her, with eyes rendered unsteady by unspeakable
admiration and blissful intoxication and with the mincing steps of a
worshiper; let one languishingly fall on one's knees, then lift one's
eyes up to her languishingly and heave a breath again; let one do all
she bids one, like an obedient slave. And now comes the cream of the
joke. We need no proof that woman can speak, ie., use words.
Unfortunately, however, she does not possess sufficient reflection for
making sure against her in the long run - which is, at most, eight days
- contradicting herself, unless, indeed, man, by contradicting her,
exerts a regulative influence. So the consequence is that within a short
time confusion will reign supreme. If one had not done what she told one
to, the confusion would pass unnoticed; for she forgets again as quickly
as she talks. But since her admirer has done all and has been at her
beck and call in every instance, the confusion