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From Venus, Children Are From Heaven.-- The fellow nodded
readily. However, as there were a number of women eavesdropping in the
vicinity, I thought it worth adding for their benefit, --If a man lowers
himself to a woman's level of fairy-tale metaphor -- I mean,
self-evidently men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus --
women will invariably drag the discussion over into something comparable
to Children are From Heaven smiling and chuckling and feeling really
good about themselves.-- --Children are From Heaven. Now we're really
getting somewhere.-- The fellow nodded impatiently.)
Anyway, I just found that I couldn't live that way. A woman is going to
do whatever makes her cheerful at the moment and that, in my experience,
is the extent of her perception of ethics. In order to maintain a
relationship with an emotion-based being it is necessary to be cheerful
about anything that makes her cheerful. Coupled with a --woman's right
to choose-- as central ethic -- or, rather, --ethic-- -- this involves a
wide and variegated spectrum of feminist actions and behaviours and
opinions. At one time, I rated sex as being very, very, very high on my
list of life's pleasures. Ultimately, for myself, the spiritual toll
which was exacted by maintaining a rictus grin in the face of all
feminist actions, behaviours and opinions across the full range
