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Scott A.Renner wrote:
> 
> >>>>> At 10:02 10/13, Tracy Hornschuch <browntr@engr.orst.edu> said:
> >
> > ...I just need to find someone who is open like me.  I don't mind a
> > husband who feels as if he's a *leader* in the household, but he will
> > have to know that we, as a couple, will have to talk about all choices
> > for the household and must agree on the answers.
> 
> I chopped a lot out of what I thought was a very nice post.  I've been
> reading and writing in the USENET groups for nearly fifteen years now.  I
> haven't often felt that my posts were doing any good.  More often it seems
> I'm writing for people who have their minds made up.  This feels good.
> Thanks.
> 
> Many people hear PK speak of the husband as the leader of the home, and
> think of the Great Leader of Korea, or Hitler leading the German nation.
> That is, they associate leader with tyrant.  Let me give you two other
> images of husband-as-leader that I think are a better fit to what PK has in
> mind:
> 
> * You are climbing a mountain.  Your husband is leading, setting the pitons
>   to help you when it's your turn to climb.  Of course, you are belaying
>   him, keeping him safe as he climbs now.  And, of course, you both decided
>   that you wanted to climb the mountain.
> 
> * You are finding a path through a swamp.  Your husband is leading, trying
>   to pick the best path through.  If you happen to see that the ground is
>   more solid to the right, then of course you'll tell him, and maybe you'll
>   both go that way instead.
> 
> --
> Scott A. Renner <sar@nym.alias.net>         ==================================================================================

Okay, Scott....Imagine this.  You want to climb Mt. Everest.  You are an
inexperienced mountain climber and the only available guide is a highly
experienced woman.  However, you MUST lead HER up the mountain because
you were BORN a male  and she was BORN female.

Sort of paints a different picture.  Doesn't it?

SAA
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