E-mail That Is Unwanted

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Amanda Baker

E-mail That Is Unwanted
Apr 23, 2004

I got this e-mail as a forward today-

> All women can benefit from the wisdom of the Navajo: > > A woman is driving toward home in Northern Arizona > when she sees a Navajo > woman hitchhiking. Because the trip had been long > and quiet, she stops the > car and the Navajo woman climbs in. During their > small talk, the Navajo > woman glances surreptitiously at a brown bag on the > front seat between them. > "If you're wondering what's in the bag," offers the > woman, "it's a bottle of > spirits. I got it for my husband." > The Navajo woman is silent for a while, nods several > times and says, "Good > trade."

I don't really think this is funny, it's kind of sad. Woman really do not need this wisdom. I don't think the Navajo people want this ignorance to be spread about thier people. Let me explain. There is a movement in some native american tribes to go sober. Yes, in the past natives medicated thier sorrows to forget that they were priosoners of the American Republic. Even in the native community in Alaska the drink took many of the youth and some of the culture has been forgotten by this. But the cultures are trying to change from the inside and bad tastless jokes don't help.

Another thing that I find tasteless is that women are being told not to appreciate their men in this peice, by being told that trading drink for the man is a "good trade". Have women forgotten what good people men really are? How men let women pretty much walk all over them. Let me explain, men don't control anything when it comes to women. Women are responsible for not going forward and asserting responsibility over their own lives and what was so bad about staying home raising children anyway? Women have changed our culture dramatically over the past 100 years. Were those changes worth it?

I think men have been villified for no good reason. Just because they are male, women have labled them the oppressors. When it is the women who oppress themselves. A woman who goes out in a attractive dress is automaticly judged by what she is wearing by other women. You hear this all the time in conversations, she too pretty or not enough make up. Women judge themselves against each other for attractiveness, appeal and intelligence. Well, not so much intelligence because most women think they are the most intelligent, and a beautiful woman might not be as intellegent as they are and same for an extremely ugly woman.

Maybe the public should stop e-mailing these kind of forwards. I know humor is subjective but the humor of putting people down is pathetic. If you can not joke about anything but other people, and putting individuals down then you are not a very creative comic. And I think its time that women stop pointing fingers at men for thier problems and start looking at themselves.

If you do have a problem with drinking go to this web site for more information to help you quit-www.alcholics-anonymous.org.

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