Show home magazine I t tl Hi ?iv tf B© Women) Wcrnit or do they want special rights as well by N e 1 1 Womack NoMAxfKiCt K v a n s We wouldn't think ot doing without tin huh- that since Aug 26 1920 we the our have been exercising SEEMS im the matter of the vote and social behavior We’ve had equal rights! At the risk of infuriating some of my sisters I offer that if we the women had only equal rights we’d be mad! There’s Just something about being only equal that goes against the grain Women are special mind you deserving and getting special rights Take the employment situation for instance Now I’ve labored plenty long and hard but since I’m a member of the special-right- s crowd there is always the comforting thought that I don’t have to work If you doubt that this thought is prevalent in the minds of women listen to your working sisters talk And any time that I feel that I must work I don’t like it My likes it even less lie poor male has no such rights he has to work and like it In common with the rest of the males he’s so busy seeing that women get their special rights he has no time to fight for equal rights for his ilk ts of the labor unions composed of men have brought about equal I’m pay for their female members mighty glad they have and am open to any MANY suggestion that might bring about special pay for this little woman "In many states women are allowed to work only eight hours Some poor dears call this discrimination in the matter of over time pay If it’s discrimination I like it Couldn't we discriminate down to six hours for the weaker sex? It would give us more time to spend our men’s over-tim- e checks! What women really cherish —or should! — is the coatthe the W’e bestow cherish our holding special rights them from our fathers our brothers our husbands and from the men with whom we work If we don’t get ’em we call men boors But then we usually get these specialties for our men love giving them to us hat-tippin- g door-openin- g it? Then watch the men at a mixed and see how they guard the right ®f a woman to a light Like birds of prey they sit ever watchful so that they may pounce to the rescue if some woman decides to light a cigaret Since I don't smoke I can watch this performance in a detached sort of way and I’ve seen big strong girls well able to flip their own lighter or even to strike a match glare and hard if her male failed in his timing and she had to light her own fag And the man? You’d have thought he’d just lost his best friend so sad he was and apologetic! The same applies to fires Most women are swell firebuilders when there’s no man around But do you think wTe will go through this strenuous ordeal when there’s a man to do it for us? If by chance we did the look on our man’s face would haunt us Not let him bestow special rights indeed! The men give us special rights on the bus DOUBT let-dow- ’ n - im-eiu- t After he’s had a hard day at the office and plainly needs to sit down what does he do? He rises and insists that we take his seat The girls have quite likely been seated all day and wouldn’t mind this change ot position at ail No matter he'll have none of that! Try to refuse and he's insulted The older a gentleman is the more he'll insist on giving his seat to a young and pretty female In the kindness of her heart can she refuse him this last show of gallantry? Why I once saw a woman offer her seat to an elderly gentleman The poor old dear refused with a hurt look and his nose in the air His masculinity had been questioned and to erase the question he dismounted the bus several blocks early jauntily threw his cane over his shoulder and strutted down the stiect Me take a lady’s seat' too also the myth about the woman worm It took me years to my fishing partner that I can bait a hook as well as he can and remove the fish after I've snared him My women fuends shame me about this They say they wouldn't dare take the wind from their husband s sails in such an arrogant fashion He gis too much kick out of relating how' his little woman hides her face and screams at the mere thought of a worm But I’apa? He's not aft aid of any worm! If we were only equal he might be THIiHE is con-inc- e Countless cartoons depict the overburdened on the shopping tour with his wfe Sneak up behind them and you’ll hear tier try to take some of his burden NO' He’d rather feel his way along the aisle grope down the street and finally unburden himself hi the privacy of his own car than to admit equality with the female Special rights for her rights for him! YOU still doubt that it is the men who give IFus our special rights consider this Will they let us move the furniture? No Will they leave us to our own interruptions of sports events? No no Will they let us cope with the bank book? You know they won’t! Will they get a divorce from us when they no longer care to shower us with special rights? Not if theyreare for their reputations And then will they let us pay alimony—even if we the women happen to have the dough? Not on your life— but we could if the equal right amendments were passed goody goody! And friends will our men let us read the newspaper first? Of course he won’t— not until he's read It and given u& all we need to know about the affairs of the world And do we correct the comments of our lord and mas-tre- ? Not If we’re smart! For if we did the fallacy of all this equal stuff might come to light and our men would no longer give us special rights We might actually- have to be equal Phooey! Who wants to be only equal? male - Understanding world affairs is beyond us — he thinks July 10 1955 H21 p VOl mi i HIHU'l II I l I 1 - ( y ‘ ’ i - n |