Sunday, August 19, 2012

Emasculation

Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, Katherine Hepburn...
If you're my age,
these names might be familiar to you.

It was a glorious time in America when our women
had handsome, husky voices,
almost  manly voices.

This started to change with Elizabeth Taylor
Even as she played Cleopatra opposite Richard Burton
her voice had a distinctive harpy quality.

Richard's voice
was a tumbling highland creek.
He was Welch, as to be expected.

Taylor was the forerunner to today's typical, screechy,
overbearing TV anchor woman.  In contrast to them,
too many of our guys sound like whining wimps.

These ball-less, pathetic creatures
have I seen,
trailing their wives in supermarkets.

Yet, far worst it was for us
when we, wee brides
had to starch and iron our husbands' underwear.

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