POINTS TO PONDER IV

Anonymous
     A young woman was explaining to a friend why she had decided to marry one man rather than another. "When I was with John," she said, "I thought he was the cleverest person in the whole world."
     "Then why didn't you choose him?" the puzzled friend asked.
     "Because when I'm with Sam, I think I'm the cleverest person in the whole world."

Margaret Mead (1987)
     Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?