The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-11-06
OTHER EDITORS
A FEW NOTES ON MANS
FAVORITE SUBJECT
(Moonsville Tribune)

Women, as we may have OBJ
served before, are charmingly
different from the male species.
Not in every way, but in
great many ways; not always adj
vantageously so, but as often as
not. This is fact that males al
ready know, but still worthy of
repeating.
Women have the edge on men
in many practical aspects. For
instance, they are more inclined
to come to grips with reality
than men. They undoubtedly are
less conceited as a group, since
their self-appraisal is keener and
usually more honest than mems.
While it is true that they spend
more time in front of a mirror
than men do, it is usually for
different and more practical rea-
son. The lady seen gazing into
the looking glass is likely looking
for defects of skin or phySiog-
nomy with a view toward cor
recting them; whereas the men
seen in similar employment pro-
badly is doing nothing more con-
structive than admiring himself.
Very few women, we have OBJ
served, will lay claim to being
raving beauties, while very few
men will admit to being as home
ly as they actually are.
Women do have their practical
side. And yet, if being practical
means having a respect for math-
ematical eXactness, then most
ladies don't qualify. And in GER
tain other respects they reveal
rare inconsistency.
In the matter of clothes they
are a push-over. Style, in the
form of the fashion experts OPP
inion, is the Great White Father
of the apparel world, whose edict
is to be conformed to to the last
red cent of the anguished males
pocketbook.
This inconsistency extends to
the matter of attitude. Whom, say
you, that women dress for? The
male? Not at all; they dress for
other women. In fact, they even
fashion their bodies, insofar as is
possible, to conform to what
other women think is most at
tractive. When it was stylish to
be hefty about a hundred years
ago, it was so because women had
decreed it. In these later times,
until very recently, it had been
stylish to be painfully, bean-pole
thin, mere clothes rack-fur-
Their proof that the males wishes
had not been consulted in the
matter. Thank goodness this idea
OF feminine beauty is now being
discarded in favor of more curves
- the Marilyn Monroe variety.
Consider now, as further and
last example of female inconsis-
tency, the society pages of the
newspapers. Where do women
want their news and pictures to
appear? Not on the front page,
but on the society page where
only other women will read and
see them. The society pages are
the safest place in the world to
hide information from the prying
eyes of the masculine species.
For, we venture to say, not one
man In thousand ever looks at
the society section of the daily
newspapers, and the women
know it. If they intended that
men should read about them they
would avoid the society page;
thus, when they insist upon
having their stories and pictures
on these pages they demonstrate
that they are catering exclusively
to the female contingent of the
reading public.
Is all this bad? Not at all. It's
good. 1t is heartening evidence
that there is more than a mere
biological difference between the
two sexes; it refutes the theory
that woman is nothing more than
"a rag, a bone, hank of hair"
More important. it vindicates the
good judgement of man, who
spends many a weary day pur-
suing the object of his fancy un-
til, as the quip goes, "she finally
catches him" This latter is just
another instance of her practical
side at work.