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Show Love Ignores Faults; Isn't ; Really Blind By KITH MILLETT What women hat about men they love Is Just about eummed up In a not on high school flrl called Bab wrote t Paul Dwyer, the We, the Women young Maine smart aleck who eon-feued eon-feued the murder of Dr. and Mra. J. E. Llttlefleld. Listed a -Tour Faults," Babe wrote, the 18-year-old Casanova: "You have not enough backbone to tay away from drink. You've not enough In you to aticlr to one thing. You couldn't support a wife and children. You are too aure of your-elf. your-elf. You think you could make love to me (and probably you could, but). You say thing you really don't mean to my girl friends and others for a joke. That makes me the sucker because I believe you when you apologize." . . Stm Lore Him Bo write the girl who saw his faults. Then, after sizing him up with the clearheadedness of an experienced ex-perienced woman, she added a line that give ue a much insight Into feminine psychology as all her criticisms. criti-cisms. She ended her note: "I love to hug and kiss you." It doesn't take a great novelist like the man who wrote "Of Human Bondage" to tell us that love and respect are entirely separate. The girl who wrot Paul Dwyer I all the things she disliked about him wasn't consciously writing about all men or for all women. Nevertheless, sh just about summed things up in her neat note. Since time began, women even th women who loved them have had contempt for spineless men. They look up to and respect the men who have some definite purpose pur-pose In life something to lend them bigness. Res poet Essentia Even th woman who is th head of the house feels deep down Inside her that a man ahould be able to look after his own wife and children. chil-dren. When their own love Is In question, ques-tion, women hat cockiness In men. They don't want timidity and they don't want humbleness but they do want men to have enough humility to accept their love as something to b deserved rather than demanded. And all women hate, either secretly se-cretly or openly, for a man to make light of them when he is talking to other women. It' almost won than when he la talking to other men. And women even though they occasionally oc-casionally let men make fool of them hate for other women to know they threw away pride for love. I |