(Not to be construed as a poem in any way. Just a meandering about an important issue.)

Well, we have….Everything and Nothing.

We have to lose:

…Our assumption that gender definitions and roles are fixed and ought to be so.

….Our continual presumption of that assumption.

….Our idea that our evolutionary inclination to automatically presume to assume the above – is natural and therefore, correct .

….Our presumption that our assumption about our assumptions about gender roles is universally shared and generally lauded.

(ALLOW ME TO DRAW SOME PICTURES TO POSSIBLY AID IN CLARIFICATION)

….When final interviews are finished, it is the male interviewee who is as likely to leave the building, as is the female interviewee…

….The calm voice of reason coming from the anchor desk on CBS NEWS will not always be a whiskey baritone.

….When election results are tallied, it is as likely that the woman’s hand is on the Bible as the man’s.

…..Once the glass ceiling is shattered, both woman and men will be able earn their way to the top.

….The missionary position will not always be the “go-to” position.

….During the passion arising during the use of the missionary position, the one with the balls will not always be the missionary on top.

….The money allocated to a young family for the stay at home parent will not always be for Mommy.

…..When the Master Sargent salutes her superior officer and turns to push the BIG RED BUTTON, she is as likely to say, “Yes, Mame!” as she is to say, “Yes, Sir!”

AND NOW,

what about having nothing to lose?

WELL,

Imagine a world:

Where the hand that that rocks the cradle – is Daddy’s.

Where heart attacks are not the primary cause of middle-aged-male deaths.

Where the word “nurturing” is an acceptable modifier for the word “masculinity”.

Where the greeting, “Honey! I’m home!” on a TV Sit Com is usually the wife’s line.

Where it is written in all the history books, like a discussion of the Magna Carta might be today, that when the Feminist Movements of the 19th and 20th centuries achieved their goals in the first half of the 21st century, those goals were found to be of positive impact on all genders and, generally, to be much more beneficial for males than they were previously assumed to be…..

by males….

and females.

(Although the thorny issue of trans-athletes in competitions at all levels in all sports still remained to be dealt with to everyone’s satisfaction…. And so the battle continues today….)