Show Bees WAXING WAKING by Mary Bee WELL WOMEN'S Liberation Day has come and gone and the gals in my neighborhood didn't do a thing towards getting liber I tried to stir up some action action- maybe picket Alvas Alva's store orburn or orburn orburn burn our bras in the city park but the whole deal kinda fell flat Most of the women were either helping put up hay or cooking for hay hay hands hands and didn't have time to be liberated The ones that were left were either pregnant or beyond caring The only liberationist fellow-liberationist I had was a great-great great grandma grand grand- ma who had helped in the wo women's women's women's wo- wo mens men's marches and she was only joining me for old times time's sake WE COULDN'T think of anything anything anything any any- thing to picket Alva for and when it came to the burning bra bra bra- burning great great- great grand g r ran a n d m ma a admitted she couldn't get along without hers By the time Id I'd removed all the safety pins from mine you couldn't even tell what it had been So I went home and scrubbed the kitchen floor and great- great grandma went home and looked through her old scrapbooks ACTUALLY THIS liberation thing isn't anything n new new-I w-I w had hada a high school teacher who used to to Ri 16 1 6 at l a Q l f l ft l MAI I t f fonce once a we week k on the importance of retaining your own identities identities ident ident- after you are married She was a a Mrs but didn't have havea a husband so we all decided because of her bitterness bitt ern e s s against men she must have been beena a divorcee e. e WHEN IT COMES right down downto downto to to it the libe liberationists are after the wrong things Instead of campaigning for larger salaries or the right to enter certain bars or fields formerly re reserved reserved reserved re- re served for men only they should be asking that some of the privileges men have be taken away from them Like this thing about being waited on when they are sick When mother gets sick she just takes a Dristan and keeps on going But let father get sick and its another story He crawls into bed and mother is expected to keep running back and forth forthwith forthwith forthwith with aspirins back rubs drinks I I II L h j U. U l i I. I j ji j i i i vC S A TV i i c of water hot broth cold pills and more aspirin By the time he finally decides he isn't go going going going go- go ing to die she needs another Dristan and six aspirins before she can keep on going OR THIS MALE EGO thing As soon as a girl begins noticing noticing noticing ing boys she is told if if you are smarter than him which all are dont don't let it show Do all you can canto canto canto f to build up his ego No one ever says anything to fo the boys about the girls girl's ego I read where one scientist says liberating women may shorten her life Ufe expectancy so she no longer lives seven years more than her male counter counter- part His line of reasoning is that it is the stress and strain of kills off the men earlier than the HES HE'S WRONG- WRONG women will still outlive men Its It's all part of the Good Lords Lord's plan to give women at least seven years of peace and quiet in their life life- time |