A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
Fish on a bicycle by Ray Troll We can blame Gloria Steinem for a lot problems these days in verbiage and communication in the battle of men vs women.
But not this phrase.
Steinem writes to Time Magazine,
“In your note on my new and happy marital partnership with David Bale, you credit me with the witticism A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. In fact, Irina Dunn, a distinguished Australian educator, journalist and politician, coined the phrase back in 1970 when she was a student at the University of Sydney.”
Credit should go to Irina Dunn, graffiti artist and Australian Senator from the Nuclear Disarmament Party.
Liberals have the same world-view the world over.
In the Yoest household kitchen
Thank you (foot)notes:
Charmaine at
Murrayfield Stadium
Edinburgh, Scotland
Live8: The Final Push
with U2
shortly before
the London Bombings
July 7, 2005 Be sure to read My Wife Flew off with Bono and Branson; Bombed in London 7.7.05
Background research for Charmaine’s speech today at Harvard.
Nothin’ much to say I guess
Just the same as all the rest
Been trying to throw your arms around the world
And a woman needs a man
Like a fish needs a bicycle
When you’re tryin’ to throw your arms around the world
Loved the picture fish on the bycycle.. you have a point 🙂
Thank you for the refreshing post
Sham
As a male who grew up amidst five sisters, I was a bit too strongly impressed with how females actually treat each other to readily buy into a lot of the feminist stereotyping and propaganda.
As for tired old cliches, like “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”….my own observation is that “A woman with a man often looks like a fish trying to ride a bicycle”.
Aside from a lack of humor, honesty
and fairness, I find the lack of mutuality to be a serious indictment of the whole movement….that any person with a whit of common sense would ask “So if you see these faults in men, what are your own?”
This practical common sense had to be driven out before the ideologies like Political Correctness and Feminism could take root.
chriss