If you dare to the streets, the Saturday before Christmas in
New York City
is a day of survival.
After dehydration and populace attack, we were on the
elevator in our building, returning to our refuge. And like everywhere else, it
was packed.
Sometimes, you are emboldened in an elevator, when you are
fresh out of audience in your regular life and you have the sense of a
sympathetic crowd.
The elevator was filled with only men, straight it seemed,
in their thirties and forties. I had to test their agreement to a joke to my
husband, medium-loud for all to hear, in a measured tone that was admitting,
“I’m trying this out.” And here I went:
“If there is any doubt that women are as aggressive as men,
try to walk on the sidewalks of New
York with them and their shopping bags. They put
Kublai Kahn to shame.”
Full titters. No one thought I was the crazy guy with the
mouth. Complete agreement all around the elevator. We exited on the fifth
floor. A risk. And a success.
Ladies: Send me all the you-misogynist-fuck comments that
you want. But when you XX’s are on an adrenalin infused shopping jaunt, you are
simply a bunch of violent monsters. And all the guys think so.
And they are tired of it.
But they are also sort of sweet about it and laugh in
agreement and not with hatred because,
“Hey, these are the things we want to fuck.”
The truth is in elevators. Some stuff never changes. Sorry.
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