woman and Men      A fellow blogger sent me a  essay of his on the nature of men and women,very nice bit of prose, and I was initially going to toss off a rebuttal. He state how restricted women are in just moving about in life,this struck me as,while perhaps a generational truth, not necessarily so for my age group.  Then I began to look more closely at my own life,and was struck by some truths.

     All my life having to walk( no car ,used to bike everywhere),work, in generally "mens" occupations I have worn a more man type of apparel. Then remember those long ago days of collage,reading a treatise by a suffragette, and my conscious decision then. Simply put~ pants enable you to move freely,never worn high heels( try running in those!), t-shirts and shirts enable ease of movement...basically I have dressed for war-flight or fight my adult life. Not totally unattractive but not so gorgeous either and this mode of dress has stood me well evading the unwanted attentions of a small percentage of males. When I first moved back after my stint at school, rebuffing for three times a unwanted 'ride" ~the occupants spit on me, the worst insult they could think of being no man would marry me. As they sped off memorizing the license number calling the police~I wanted then scared enough so as to not do that again~ having to force the police to take me seriously ...and then watching both being arrested because of warrants. Then the recent attempt by a youth who feeling dissed by a young woman~sexually rebuffed~ to end her life by stabbing her repeatedly.

  In the end of these thoughts and many more, I have to agree with my fellow blogger ~ men have no idea of how a woman walks through this world.I had hoped to say each generation is a bit better in terms of this, but can only now say each generation is different, more open in ways yet more challenged in others.