Maggie's Farm

I, was gifted with beauty. The women in my family never spoke of appearances other than to say someone looked nice--referring to clothes or hair. I come from a family of women who for five generations at least were taught the New Testament lesson--to love the other as Jesus would. My looks were something I never thought about until I was about 35! They lasted a long time and for that I am eternally grateful.

However, you cannot imagine how shocked I was when I went down to the Human Resource office at the private university where my DH had worked for seven years. DH was a department chair. His personal office manager was a lesbian--she was nice and very professional. Her live in girl friend got spousal reciprocity benefits from their university that included their university paying for employees and their spouses to take classes at the public university across town. That was the reason I went to the HR department that day--to ask if I could get the same spousal benefit. The head of HR was sitting in a rocking chair she had brought into her office--the foot massage machine was on the floor next to the chair. When I asked for the spousal reciprocity program she looked up at me and said very clearly: "No deals for women like you!" At first, I thought she mean because we were not a gay couple, years later I realized the real motivation--my looks. Yessir ladies and gentlemen--academic careers of white men are not built upon teaching skills, or in depth understanding of subject matter--they are built upon the looks of their wives. I have long sensed that the women who would be/are my most sincere friends are those women who are the ugliest! Those plain-jane mediocre women in the vast middle are the most evil. Of course, because of the lessons the last three generations of women have been taught even the ugliest women will be herded together into absolute obedience to femob rule!