Just musing about an incident that was breaking news back in 1997. It happened in the Oval Office, they said, in an attempt to impeach President Clinton. by Mavis Mathews
(conservative)
Friday, August 8, 2008
ADAM AND APPLE
Mavis Mathews
In the familiar allegory of the first relationship between a man and a woman there was a significant apple. The story contends that the eating of this apple brought about the "fall of man," and that it was served up to him by a woman.
To this day we tend to believe that a properly displayed temptation, such as the flash of a pair of thong panties, can bring a man down from the highest pinnacle of achievement.
The unmistakable similarity between this more recent display of temptation in the Oval Office and that first one in the allegorical Garden of Eden is all too obvious. But, who would dare to suggest that such a man, or any man for that matter, could actually be beguiled by a clever female and still think of himself as a man?
And so, once again tradition holds: Adam finally accepts full responsibility for eating the apple, apologizes, and sets himself up to pay the price for his indiscretion. The unutterable alternative would have been to acknowledge that he had been seduced or brought to degeneration by a mere woman.
But then, some women seem to agree, don't they? "It's always the man's fault," they proclaim, because he's what? Bigger than she is? They love to bitch and complain about the advantages men have over women. They may even say that they want equal rights, but do they really? Do they want equal answerability as well?
Some authors like Naomi Wolfe in her book, "The Beauty Myth," promote the theory that women have been completely dominated by men all along--implying that it was men who made women into the helpless "sheep" that they had become.
Well, if it's true that women can be so easily brainwashed by the workings of the more generative male mind, perhaps they need to take another look at that. It won't be easy. To begin with, they'll have to bring themselves to consider the possibility that he might actually have a more generative mind. Only then can they seriously consider a real-life example of how it works in everyday life.
A woman must never underestimate the persuasive powers of the male mind. It's one of the things she finds so attractive about him, isn't it? She may not always like it very much like when she wakes up some morning and realizes she's "been had" the night before. Or even that she's bought something that she neither wanted nor needed. She's simply had an experience with the more generative male mind.
But, even then, she can't help but admire the way he managed to get what he wanted--how an ordinary man can transform into some kind of genius when he sets out to con or seduce a woman. It's a gift and it has a counterpart in female.
She still has the capacity to completely captivate an unsuspecting male and to lead him astray. It takes more than an apple, more even than a pair of thong panties. Women have always been a mystery to men, and they had better hope that it stays that way.
Sex, in and of itself, does not satisfy the voracious appetite of the male ego (although they'll never quit believing that it will.) But what is it that female holds over male? What makes her such a mystery?
She holds the possibility of a more enduring fulfillment one that can only be administered by a woman. It is non-threatening, and it is non-competitive. It can come, exclusively, from a woman who is confident and happy in her own feminine form. It comes naturally when a woman matures and truly understands and appreciates the masculine gender--free of envy, anger or resentment.
This woman understands that his needs are not that different from her own. She knows that he seeks to be desired, respected and cherished. He needs to be made to feel singularly special like Adam must have felt when Eve offered him the forbidden apple.
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