Mother's Day
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Jean Ward
……….On July 9, 2010 my mother will celebrate her 90th year. Happy Mother’s Day mom and to all the mother’s in the world!
Posts Tagged ‘Women’
The Aspiring Lesbian
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Posted by Lady C
It is no secret that finding the perfect partner is a daunting, perilous task. Women expose their hearts to the world on a daily basis and hope to get them back in one piece. And because there aren’t enough Romeos to go around, I have seen a lot of hearts in need of mending. So many women I know have what men tend to refer to as “baggage.” They are jealous, suspicious and insecure. I have been through some tough relationships, and admittedly have had some baggage of my own… I didn’t trust men, thought them all to be filthy, lying chauvinist (if one, two, three are, they all must be). I assumed every male who engaged me in conversation had a hidden agenda (which often proved to be true). After a particularly enraging breakup, I had the idea to swear off men… and I began referring to myself as an aspiring lesbian. My proclamation was half in jest, but after subjecting myself to the doings of men, I’ve almost convinced myself that my most compatible partner may actually be a woman.
The male response to such a statement is usually, “You’ll regret it. Women are complicated, you have no idea what dating one is like!” Even one of my closest lesbian friends agreed that my hypothetical attempt would most likely be an unfruitful one. But my rationalization is this: If women are (so lovingly dubbed by men) the complicated, emotional, irrational sex, who could understand a woman better than another woman? The only flaw in my plan, as many people have pointed out, is I am not attracted to women or even to the idea of a perfect relationship QUITE enough to desire women sexually. Oh, I agree women are beautiful! Throughout art history, no subject has been so admired as the female form. I love an attractive, intelligent, powerful female just as much as the next borderline feminist… but despite my revelations and rationalizations, my relationships with females have never become sexual. So I began another heterosexual relationship. And as the cycle goes, once I get fed up with being lied to and cheated on, being told I’m too sensitive or think too much, I find hope in the fact that under all my new baggage I can proudly call myself an aspiring lesbian. -Lady C
