A Horrible Suspicion Just Visited Me | Clarissa's Blog
Chimp chatter. "Stay out of the kitchen" and "boys will be boys". If I really despise someone, I never see any harm in letting them do what they were going to do anyway. I let, for instance, boys be boys. Now, I happen to know certain things that would make their lives less squalid and more fulfilled, but they are intent on being "boys". Meanwhile, I've actually stolen fire from the men. I really have. I've figured it all out -- what they men were keeping from me. I understand, for instance, the secrets of war and of warfare. Consequently, there is nothing I need from the boys, and I can leave them to their homilies and platitudinizing. It must give them comfort to know there is something in which they automatically excel.
Chimp chatter. "Stay out of the kitchen" and "boys will be boys". If I really despise someone, I never see any harm in letting them do what they were going to do anyway. I let, for instance, boys be boys. Now, I happen to know certain things that would make their lives less squalid and more fulfilled, but they are intent on being "boys". Meanwhile, I've actually stolen fire from the men. I really have. I've figured it all out -- what they men were keeping from me. I understand, for instance, the secrets of war and of warfare. Consequently, there is nothing I need from the boys, and I can leave them to their homilies and platitudinizing. It must give them comfort to know there is something in which they automatically excel.
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