SALUTE TO FEMALE AS FOIL
"Foil" as used in this article means to contrast, to distinguish, and to highlight something else.
Females are the foils of males. Males are the foils of females.
"Sugar, spice, and everything nice" contrasts "nails, snails and puppy dog tails." This childhood nursery rhyme highlights the cultural, biological distinction between the sexes. The girls being sugar, the boys being nails.
"Viva la difference!" Long live this difference!
As we enter the observance of "Fathers Day," I cannot help but think of the affect of the powerful presence that women have as wives , mothers, sisters, friends.
No greater joy could conceivably exist for man on earth than that of the woman . Nor any greater helpmate! "Behind every great man is a beautiful woman," the saying goes; to which young men add, "and behind every beautiful woman is a beautiful behind!"
Procreation is the most essential of human functions. Creating the next generation necessarily precedes molding its wet clay on the potter's wheel of life, and firing it in the oven of adversity.
Women gestate. Men inseminate. Both procreate together. Not just biologically, anthropologically, do they create and reproduce, but in every other kind of way literally conceivable to the human race.
"That without which" is a Latin maxim expressed by lawyers to describe or to affirm essential mutuality. We say "quid pro quo."
Such is woman to man; mothers to fathers; males to female: foils!
Saturday, June 20, 2015
FEMALE AS FOIL
SALUTE TO FEMALE AS FOIL
"Foil" as used in this article means to contrast, to distinguish, and to highlight something else.
Females are the foils of males. Males are the foils of females.
"Sugar, spice, and everything nice" contrasts "nails, snails and puppy dog tails." This childhood nursery rhyme highlights the cultural, biological distinction between the sexes. The girls being sugar, the boys being nails.
"Viva la difference!" Long live this difference!
As we enter the observance of "Fathers Day," I cannot help but think of the affect of the powerful presence that women have as wives , mothers, sisters, friends.
No greater joy could conceivably exist for man on earth than that of the woman . Nor any greater helpmate! "Behind every great man is a beautiful woman," the saying goes; to which young men add, "and behind every beautiful woman is a beautiful behind!"
Procreation is the most essential of human functions. Creating the next generation necessarily precedes molding its wet clay on the potter's wheel of life, and firing it in the oven of adversity.
Women gestate. Men inseminate. Both procreate together. Not just biologically, anthropologically, do they create and reproduce, but in every other kind of way literally conceivable to the human race.
"That without which" is a Latin maxim expressed by lawyers to describe or to affirm essential mutuality. We say "quid pro quo."
Such is woman to man; mothers to fathers; males to female: foils!