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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re:  fish without a bicycle
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Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 00:17:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 00:17:28 1984
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>  > "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

> Not true.  A fish can't ride a bicycle.  8-)
> Actually, I've always kind of resented this saying.  It says that men have no
> place in women's lives, which I don't believe, and hope is not true.  I wonder
> what the purpose of the statement is, I suspect it is to cause resentment.

The statement wasn't meant to imply that men have no place in women's lives,
although given that a fish can't ride a bicycle it could, I guess, be taken
that way.  What it meant to say was that a woman doesn't *need* a man in
her life, which is certainly true.  It can be interpreted as "A woman
without a man is like a fish without a bicycle because a fish can't do
anything with a bicycle", true; but it can also be interpreted as "A woman
without a man is like a fish without a bicycle because a fish can get along
quite well without a bicycle."  The latter is, I believe, what was intended.

	Guy Harris
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