We women do have a few things to remark about.

Naturally, we don’t use a soapbox. As we all know, we ladies like to congregate in a flock instead of being solo, we even pair up to visit the powder room. Maybe that’s an atavistic trait. Like mountain elk ladies clustering together, possibly for comfort or possibly for protection from rampaging males.

So let’s band together and speak up, but just one at a time, please. Remember ladies, males do not possess our gift of listening to several women talking all at the same time. They can listen to only one at a time, if they listen at all.

Let me start with the misconception of telephone talk. We girls do not yak on the telephone as long as you men claim. Recent research has shown that in insurance agencies with three male agents and three female office workers the use of telephones by males far outweighed the use by the female members.

And don’t get me started on language manners. As an example, take a group of mothers at a PTA meeting. They will quietly discuss their wonderful, sweet, and gifted children or exchange cooking recipes, never using foul language.

Now how about males? Have you ever listened to truck drivers talk to each other? Their conversation on the CB is nothing but four-letter words. No respectable woman will ever listen to such talk. Naturally, I myself know this only by hearsay.

Males, it seems, believe that we think them very macho when they are boisterous and loud and use lots of expletives. We only laugh at their crude jokes because we are either being polite or we don’t understand them.

Going out for dinner can really become a hassle when hubby is standing in the door, nervously cracking his knuckles. You know that he wants to later parade you as the most beautiful girl around. But he doesn’t seem to understand that a misplaced strand of hair will ruin the entire appearance; a problem that must be repaired, and that takes time.

Why do guys have to use the bathroom while we are in the middle of an important application of maara. Since les don’t understand any of this we will have to bear with it and maybe soothe his nerves later with a special treat.

And since I was just talking of chocolate. Why only on Valentine’s Day, there are so many more Sundays on the calendar.

Here is another beef. We see a pretty blouse on sale and buy it. Do you guys realize we just saved you money buying it on sale? Same goes for the skirt we need with it. The police would arrest us if we paraded ourselves without a skirt, so don’t ask if we really had to buy that, too. As to the shoes, you don’t want us to go barefoot to dinner, right?

Let’s stop now ladies, the guys have fallen asleep while listening to us.