Re: [Paddlewise] Evangelical Church of Rudderless Paddlers

From: Steve Cramer <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 14:20:48 -0400
Steven Holtzman wrote:
> 
> Advice Needed!!
> 
> My wife and I both paddle the same model boat with one exception. Mine has a
> rudder and hers doesn't. She feels there is no need for a rudder - equates it
> to some high tech testosterone type thing.
> 
> Is there any hope for this marriage or will I have to convert?
> 
Hmmm, there is an interesting endocrinological intereaction going on in
the Holtzman household. We all know that there is a strong relationship
between high tech and high testosterone. Men program VCRs, use handheld
PCs, build computers from scratch, hotrod cars and boats, and women
simply don't. On the other hand, surely it's more macho to paddle a boat
without a rudder. As Emiliano Z might have said, had he not lived in the
Sonoran desert, "We don' need no steekin' rudders!"

Perhaps that's what comes from men wearing skirts.

Steve (with apologies to all the women reading this who _do_ program
VCRs and build computers from scratch. Both of you.)
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