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WHAT WOMEN WANT
NOT THE MOVIE REVIEW
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By: Barbara Stanley
I had a friend tell me that the current movie now showing, What Women Want, with a personal hero of mine, Mel ‘The patriot’ Gibson in the starring role, is a good one and I look forward seeing it. This got me to thinking, what do women want? That question has been around forever in my growing up and adult years and now that I have had experience in life, I wonder if what this means to me is meaningful to any other women.
I know that I am glad I had a mother who taught me what I needed to be a mother and a father who taught me how to survive and support a family on my own. I wanted to have a good life; this is how they gave it to me. They taught me that frugality was respectful and waste was not good. This allowed me to take my kids on an archaeological outing (fancy term for digging in the paleo-indian-rich land around here), which was certainly affordable and gave us great memories. My daughter now tells me that she attributes these cheapy afternoons for her attention to detail and this attention to detail has increased her life immeasurably. Never realized back then that digging in the dirt and finding points and bits from a long ago civilization would yield so much. This is what she now, as a woman, wants, perfection in personal life, doing one’s best as a matter of course, and this is what I as a woman want in my life. I wanted a good life and my parents gave me the tools to fashion it, the doing of it to pass along by example to my kids and they to theirs.
I also want a man easily identified as a man: honest, courageous, insightful, spiritual, brave, strong, capable, intelligent, steadfast and intrepid. When I was a girl, my friends wanted a man who had a nice car and wined and dined them and gave them gifts. I wanted a guy who would be honest and who would raise up the feeling of God in my heart as I watched him in the world. There is something incredible that happens when in the company of this kind of warrior. Every moment is purposeful and even playful, the joy of life and the rewards of a life well lived just radiate and warm a heart.
I want a man who can wield an axe better than me, shoot better than me, take good care of himself as do I, be a conservative libertarian, pioneer spirit to the very core. I want a man who values liberty and freedom and knows the true meaning of loyalty and sacrifice. In short, I want a man. I think that ’s what many of us women want, a man and all that word means. Just as there is no thing such as ‘bad business’, for there is business and that is good, or there is fraud; so, too, the word man has many more meanings than the few I have stated thus.
I know that careers and jobs can give meaning to life, but for this woman, the home and hearth and family give me mine. Being good at whatever you do gives back that which is put in. Women want to be their best and we want partners who share that vision.
And just as a good woman wants a good man, a good country deserves a good leader. In the current times, that is a good man. Not a man who is a boy in disguise, hiding behind his mother-du-jour’s skirts, be she Janet Reno, Hillary or any other available female. The country’s women do not really want the despot and I do not for one moment believe the ‘women’s vote’ is anything other than a fraud. The vote so defined by those who would lie to us with propaganda is nothing more than the girl in search of a father vote. The girl who prefers the state to a husband and father for her children, the girl who thinks not for herself, never mind her family, that is the vote they claim.
What women want is to have love and joy around them and security and support for its continuance. What the women of this country want is truth and honesty in their leadership. We do not want to be snowed; we do not appreciate the insults. We want to know our hard earned money goes to preserve the family and the nation and to expect our churches and temples to allow us each to care for our community. We want the good guys to win and we want them to lead us as we would lead our own families. Women want those they elected to do as they said they would and we certainly do not appreciate the current nonsense of taking a cue from the loser in how to run the country. I mean, really, when was the last time you took advice from the defeated in how to win?
In the end, what women want is the same that men want: freedom and liberty and prosperity. We all want the pursuit of happiness in lives our lives as we feel and believe they should be lived, without state interference or the scoldings of a dubious nanny. Just as I would never take advice on winning from the loser, I would never take direction from one who is of such low character as to be woefully unqualified to advise. And we certainly do not want a thief in our midst. |
