-----Original Message----- From: Steven Holtzman >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. > Men, of course, are born with rudders, women without. This means that women suffer from rudder envy, so, in a matriarchal society such as you have in the United States, you have all been taught by your mothers that rudders are a bad thing and must not be displayed in public. In the more primitive New Zealand society 99.999% of sea kayaks have rudders, i.e. I have yet to see a rudderless one. Male dominance is almost complete, and women are sidelined into trivial jobs such as Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, etc. Now, what am I going to cook for my wife's dinner tonight? ;-) Cheers Allan Singleton Hamilton NZ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 06 1999 - 14:41:46 PDT
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