| | On Chaucer, quite true... there is also a variant in Boccacio; the story draws on older Pagan traditions that remained a major component of the folk and literary cultures of the middle ages; there are Arabic, Russian, and Celtic versions of essentially the same story. Even the Disney version of "Beauty and the Beast" echoes of the same memory of losing battles. And most unfortunately, this myth is still very accurate social criticism. Would that more men, and more women, and more Objectivists, could heed it!
It the current social context, of course, the question involved permits a broader or narrower interpretation, like all questions involving human self-interest. "What do women want" is a question capable of answer in nonmysterious terms. I can of course quote scripture to my purpose:
"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
good premises and buenas noches,
Jeanine Ring {))(*)((}
stand forth!
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