Funny. I got a call from a man today who has been "pursuing" me for the last few months. I decided a while back (after the second time we met for coffee) that I was not interested in him but he persists in calling and emailing. He brags about his sensitivity and thinks he is enlightened about us women because he readily admits to watching Oprah and Dr Phil but in reality he is still a long way off from there.

He refers to women as "girls", or little girls, which really irks me. We recently had a discussion about why women wind up getting the short end of the deal in many divorce situations, especially stay-at-home-moms who have sacrificed their careers in the name of full-time motherhood, and he said (most likely thinking that I'd be impressed by his willingness to put full blame on men as a gender...)that men are to blame because they don't give their wives quite enough independence. Ouch!

I told him that independence is not something that a man grants a woman...it is something that women are all on their own and not something they get as a gift from a benificent ruler/husband. He didn't get it....and I suspect he is - on a relative scale - one of the "good ones". LOL!

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