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Show a cork over one too many banners on a store front, I just want to say, “"Debbie...bless your pointy little head, but why don’t you take a nerve pill and calm down some? This isn’t a personal crusade. In the whole crazy scheme of things, it’s just not worth getting upset about." Let's all try to love one another and get along with each other and be happy. (My god, I just sounded like a Janet Lowe story in the “Moab Happenings.") In any case, one little banner hanging above a store front really doesn’t upset me. Lighten up, Moab City...or don’t you guys have anything better to do? MALE BASHING I would like to come to the defense of my gender. We guys have been beaten up for long enough. Stop the stereotyping. Stop the bashing. Some of us, at least, deserve better. In the media, particularly in commercials, men are portrayed as idiots and morons who could not find their way out of a paper bag. I was listening to the radio the other day. It MY MANTRA...POPULATION Is it any wonder we're getting on each other's nerves? States is approaching (or may have even exceeded by now) million more Americans than we had just 50 short years projections by the government: : By the year 2050, the U.S. population will have grown The population of the United 270 million people. That is 110 ago. But consider these new to 394 million, a 50% increase over today’s population. That is 124 million more people than live in the U.S. in 1999. Mind boggling. i the government doing anything at all to confront this threat? They (and WE) are like the story I heard recently. A man with a microphone was doing street interviews on the topic of over-population with passersby. So he stopped a man and asked the question: "If you woke up tomorrow “ ae was a tire commercial...the guy was too stupid to even select the best value in a damn tire. It was his level-headed female companion who knew a good tire when she saw one. Now I am not questioning the ability of women to choose good tires. I’m saying that if you reversed theroles in that little radio ad, women would be ricocheting off the walls. And the bashing gets worse. A year or so ago I was visiting a friend in a town north of here. One day I joined her female friends for a cup of coffee at a cafe and listened to the most extraordinary conversation. There was a bowl of walnuts on the table and the A nutcracker was of a rather unusual design. One of the women noted that the device could : be used to remove more than walnut shells. Both physically and mentally, I found myself assuming a defensive posture. The women were all having a good laugh as they passed the “device” around the table. Finally, at great risk to life and certain parts of my anatomy, I complained to the assembled group of would-be testicle removers. "I’m just curious," I said, "but what if this table was occupied by five men and one woman? And what if we guys were toying with oie ad UNITED STATES some kind of device that could be used to mutilate parts of a woman’s anatomy? Would it still be funny?” There was a pause. Then one of the women said defiantly, "Look men have been saying stuff like this for thousands of years. It’s about time you got a little of your own medicine." "Oh I see," I replied. "So you want to exhibit the same qualities that you detest the most in men. Well what could be more logical than that?" : ae The party broke up and later, to their credit, some of the women privately told me they agreed with my complaint. Look...there are still thousands, maybe millions of brain-dead men out there who treat women like so much property, who mentally and physically abuse women every hour of the day. They are a disgrace to my gender and I don’t think any punishment is severe A GRAPHIC EXAMPLE. What's the difference between a country with 18 million inhabitants and one with 270 million? Here are two nighttime satelite photos of North America and Australia. A picture really is worth a thousand words. enough for that kind of brutal behavior. But there are a lot of us guys who are not like that. It never occurs to us to treat women as anything but our equals. But we are different. We’re guys. You’re...there, you see? Iam afraid to write anything but ‘women.’ If I were to write gals, I’d be waiting for someone to come at me with a nutcracker. It doesn’t have to be like that. We are your friends. We're on your side. Give us a break, huh? morning and discovered the world was so-overpopulated that there was no place to even stand, what would you do?" The man replied, "I’d go back to bed." NOTE: The Zephyr welcomes articulate responses from women or men who take issue with these comments. 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