Great Humanitarians

         Here is a family story from childhood. This version is mostly from my 2009 write-up. One cannot deny that often on television the female props on game shows like The Price is Right, or the country girls on Hee Haw or the women promoting gun shows or selling cars in commercials are usually bursting out of their clothes. And sometimes when watching tv together and noticing these particular women, Mom would turn to her children and say with all sincerity, “Look at those poor deformed women! Yes, deformed is the word for them - it is not natural for women to look that way. See, they can't even find clothes to fit! They buy blouses and dresses to cover up their abnormalities, but then the deformities just bust right out of everything they put on and button up!”

          Mom would continue with a very straight face, especially trying to advise my brothers, “The advertisers and movie makers, if you think about it, are actually great humanitarians to go out of their way to employ deformed women. Because it is very hard for these women to find jobs when they can't fit into regular clothing the way the rest of us can. These humanitarians, out of the goodness of their hearts, and I guess, pity, give these special women employment and allow the deformed women to work in their scanty clothing because that is all they can wear. These are the only jobs the women can get. Poor Things!”

          And with a flourish, the ending to Mom's oration, and final advice to her sons, would come, “It is perfectly understandable that you would want to stare at or even ogle these poor unfortunates, but that's not nice. We should just take pity on these deformed women and look past their poor clothes the way the humanitarian advertisers and movie makers do. And someday you will each bring home a nice, streamlined, shaped like your mother and sister, woman to marry – and that will be the natural order of the universe.”

          Can't really add anything to that!

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