January 17, 2023

One of the most important things I know is a fundamental mistake of Sigmund Freud. Siggie asked: “What do women want?”

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Everybody knows that Siggie was asking the wrong question. It is not what women want, it is what they “expect.” And what women expect is:

Women expect to be protected.

Once you read this, learn it, and inwardly digest it, life looks a lot different.

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The limit case on women and protection is described in A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous. Yes, what does a woman do in Berlin in May 1945 when it’s been invaded by the Red Army and she’s already been raped a few times? Bueller? Anyone?

I say that a fundamental male skill in this world is to have your mind tuned to things that “women expect.”

I bet you had never thought that “women expect to have gas stoves.” I hadn’t, which just shows that we men are all dumb or some’pn. It’s obvious, now. Women like their gas stoves — even Dr. Jill Biden — and they all think it is ridiculous to ban them. But who knew, two weeks ago?

Okay. So the green transition stubbed a toe on the gas stoves issue. Trouble is that when it comes to “EVs,” another vital step in the green transition, women are all in. They tell you proudly of their “EVs” and how they are up on the jargon, such as being “iced” at a charging station by a MAGA F-350 truck occupying the charging space.

But women should be terrified by “EVs.” Suppose a nice liberal lady goes to the Seattle Symphony in her “EV” and it’s a really cold night and she has to stop at a charging station on the way home in a supermarket parking lot at 11:00 p.m. and there are drug dealers about? Of course, there are three charging stations in the basement of Symphony Hall, but good luck getting ahead of the Gold Membership patrons — or matrons, as the case may be.

But, ladies, what happens in ten years when there are 50 charging stations in the basement of Symphony Hall and one of the “EVs” has a battery fire — in a basement parking garage full of EVs with nice explodable lithium batteries?