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You have been granted admittance to the man cave, a rare opportunity indeed. Don’t mind the Iron City beer cans, whittling scraps or cigar butts and if the poster of the Miller Lite girl offends you then don’t look at it. Since you have chosen to stay, pull up a log, open a can of beans and listen. I am going to share with you a compilation of thoughts that were born right here in the man cave during the long rain-delay in the most recent running of the Indianapolis 500. Now it seems that pretty much all my life I’ve been hearing women grumble about not having the same rights as men. Now I suppose back in the day when the law of the land was “one-phallus-one vote” women had a strong argument for equal rights—at least when it came to voting rights. However, women didn’t stop there. No siree Bob, once the ladies won the right to vote they wanted more. They wanted to wear pants, become police officers, firefighters. Then they wanted to become doctors and lawyers, then judges and politicians. In short, women wanted to be just like men. Now they drive racecars, not real cars like they drive down at Talladega, the ones with M&M’s and Home Depot billboards painted on them, but racecars just the same. Now where have all of the so-called equal rights gotten us? We have women driving in the Indy 500, urinals in the lady’s room and diaper changing stations in the men’s room. We have a woman who is two heartbeats away from the most powerful office in the world and another who is a strong candidate to win that office in less than two years time. The world is turning completely upside-down. Remember when Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in that much ballyhooed tennis match back in 1973? The way the ladies acted after Ms. King won you would have thought that she had knocked out Muhammad Ali with a right uppercut for the Heavyweight Championship of the World when in fact, all she did was beat an old man with a heart condition who a long time ago happened to be a pretty good tennis player. Now had she beaten John McEnroe or Jimmy Conners, or any other ranked male for that matter; then I would have been impressed. I might have believed that women really were equal to men. However, having three women driving at the Indianapolis 500 this year wasn’t totally demoralizing to us men, none of them won and they were all pretty hot. |
