After school one day Todd, an eager second grader, came up to his mother and asked, "Mom, what's a pussy?"
Somewhat startled by the question, but directing her answer away from the adult definition, the mother replied, "Son, sometimes people say the word pussy, for short, when they really mean pussycat. You know like Boots, the cat that lives next door. Boots could be called a pussy or better yet, pussycat."
That didn't compute with what Todd heard on the playground that day, but he continued, "Mom, what about a bitch? What is a bitch?"
She pursued her puritanical theme by answering, "Todd, an adult female dog is commonly referred to as a bitch. But Son, where did you hear such words?"
"From the fourth graders on the playground, Mom," he replied.
"I think you should play with your second grade friends and stay away from those fourth graders," the mother stated.
Later, Todd found his dad working in the garage. He went up to his dad and asked, "Dad, what's a pussy?"
The dad contemplated how he should answer this delicate question. Then resolving that an honest question deserves and honest answer, he reached up on the top shelf of his tool bench and took down a copy of the Playboy magazine. He pulled out the centerfold and laid it on the workbench. With a felt-tip pen the dad drew a very tight circle around the vulva of the nude playmate-of-the- month.
Pointing to the centerfold and looking his son square in the eye, the dad said, "Todd, Son, everything inside that little circle is called a pussy!"
"WOW," said Todd as his eyes bugged at the small circle. Now that made more sense about what he heard on the playground that day.
"Dad, what's a bitch" Todd asked?
"Well, Son, a bitch is everything outside that circle." |
