Posted by verne on May 21, 2006, at 23:14:24
My take on gender friction:
I've always liked the "Tarzan and Jane" model. She was in charge of the treehouse and taking care of "Boy", while Tarzan ran around the jungle saving the world and communicating with animals.
Everybody loved and adored each other. After a hard day's work, they would sometimes play a kind of word game which really amounted to Jane trying to teach Tarzan English.
This always resulted in the same thing. Tarzan would insist on the jungle equivalent (which always sounded like "hungowa"), Jane would laugh, and he would dive into a pool or swing away on a vine.
Sometimes when Tarzan hit the vines, Jane lovingly clung to him. At other times Jane would just watch adoringly while Tarzan was deep in thought. When he snapped out of it, they would laugh, dive into a pool together, or swing away on a vine.
Is good, no?
verne
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