Tavris on War Between the Sexes
Tavris, like most do-gooders, envisions leading great Utopian societal changes with total disregard for the chaos she would leave in her wake. Oh, sure, it sounds good on the face of it--love, understanding, conciliation between the sexes--but closer inspection reveals the havoc she would wreak.
Entrenched and well-established industries and time-worn relationships would be obliterated summarily and without consideration for peacetime conversion.
Consider the plight of the stand-up comic. At least 80% of his or her material--that rich vein of sexual misunderstanding and conflict--blown to the pacifist winds of reconciliation and accord.
And the lawyers--my God, the specter of divorce lawyers filling the unemployment offices in lines rivaling those of the Great Depression obviously would not weigh on the conscience of the cavalier Tavris, whose new and placid society would leave even those pathetic souls to scavenge for some modicum of place and dignity.
And I have not even touched on basic American institutional staples, such as marathon, round-the-clock TV football-and basketball-watching.
No, far better not to interfere with the divine order of things. After all, if the Almighty had intended peace and harmony between the sexes, why would he have designed marriages?
BILL GORDON, Woodland Hills
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