Do some of you men need to start making a separation between the girl, and the body she just happens to live in? You who fall in love with, essentially, a body and you attach to it a personality you've wished-up, and you then wise up and want to move on, in a rather confused and sad-for-everybody way - you're a nuisance to women aren't you? You're an idiot.
In a similar way, don't you women also confuse yourselves when dating? How many women can see the dull talk in a man who is short ugly and dull, yet fail to see the dull talk in one who is tall, charismatic, and dull? Easily done. Fail to see until later of course, when you can no longer delude yourselves, and that's when you are forced to inflict the pain. The boyfriend always had been dull. The situations weren't dull - the trips together, the new flat, the new children weren't dull at all. But the man 'doing' the situations with you, with hindsight, always had been dull had he? You're a nuisance. You're an idiot.
Are you reacting to a body or to a mind? That's the question isn't it? To help with this task, from Friday onwards, the Registrar Of Births Deaths And Marriages will require you to register a child under two names - a Mind-Name and a Body-Name. A girl now has a Body-Name which identifies her bubbly laughter, her curves, the way she pinches her cheek when she's writing, the way she tucks her legs beneath her on the sofa . . . And in addition to that she now has a Mind-Name which refers to her fast come-backs, her ready joy, and whether she herself is genuinely entertaining or merely laughing at entertaining things.
One other thing. The registrar requires a Milk-Name to begin with. A Milk-Name - a name you have in your jelly-and-custard years, a name to discard when a personality comes through at which time a permanent Body-Name and a Mind-Name can be chosen. So yes indeed, it's three lots of birthday presents now. Good-oh.

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