Comments…

Just a few comments I wanted to respond to… I’ll sort of go in reverse order.

First, yeah, you DO indeed get drunk quicker. Lots quicker! So be careful with that. If you’re on Welbutrin or that type of thing you can also have seizures. That’s not the case with Prozac, but you get goofy fast. There are advantages and disadvantages to that, but mostly advantages unless you drive or overdo it.

Second… The comment about the confident woman is an aphrodisiac. I suppose in theory that’s true. If you had two equally beautiful women and one was confident and the other was inhibited, but I’ll bet you that if you had one woman built like Drew Carey’s secretary — what’s her name… Mimi? And another woman looking like last night’s Miss America… totally gorgeous. If the first woman was confident and uninhibited and just shed her clothes with lust and abandon it would not be as good an aphrodisiac (if an aphrodisiac at all) as woman number two shyly removing her dress embarassed and concerned that she doesn’t look good enough for you. Let’s be real.

Third, the comment about the more beautiful women having more trouble with aging. I don’t really agree with that because it seems like often the beautiful women have the confidence that carries them through aging as well as remaining pretty good looking in spite of their age. Us normal women looked okay when we were younger, simply because young women tend to look pretty good. We never were gorgeous like the beautiful ones, but we had some exposure to flattery and admiration. We never felt completely comfortable with our looks, but it was fun to pose in front of the mirror and find some beauty in the way we looked if we stood a certain way or tilted our head or sucked in our tummies or whatever. Trouble is, now that we’re older, it’s tougher and tougher, on to impossible, to find any “pose” that makes us appear attractive. So the little we did have is now gone. A Meryl Streep or Goldie Hawn still looks pretty excellent. Farrah Fawcett looks better than many women a decade younger than her. But us ordinary women, we look like PTA moms. And there are those of us who “gave up.” (Like I mentioned in an earlier entry.) The women with the short hair and big print cotton baggy shirts hanging halfway down their thighs covering the elastic topped slacks. Under each one of those seemingly sexless women is a hot lover waiting to escape into the arms of a man who appreciates her. At least that’s what I imagine to myself when I walk around KMart and see these sisters of middle-age. I’m not quite at that point yet, but I’m too darn close to not think about what goes on in my fellow women’s minds.