(Or That's Just What We Let Them Think)
             Call me Sybil. I have two personalities. One is the helpless, quivering mass that men like to call "vulnerable" and "female" and the other is pure Paige. The latter is in your face, pull the bootstraps up and take the bull by the horns. This duality has occurred by necessity, not by choice. For years men have been allowed to think that they are the dominant gender, the great providers, and what God had intended humans to be. Little do they know that God is really a She. There are great differences between men and women, some of which are cleanliness habits, thought processes, and child rearing.
             As the great Maurice Chevalier sang, "Thank Heaven for little girls." Women differ from their male counterparts physically, that is a no-brainer. However, one of the greatest differences between the sexes arises in the grooming department. Women are taught at a very young age that females are to be beautiful, graceful, tasteful, and always be neat and clean. Make-up and beauty treatments are being bought so that women can maintain the illusion of whatever the current trend is. But underneath all that translucent powder and body glitter is a basically clean person. Women have this thing about bathing on a regular basis. Body odor is offensive. Dirty under garments are verboten and the thought of sweating and not changing clothes is utter ridiculous. Civilized women cannot go a day without some sort of bathing ritual. Granted, it is rather hard to bathe properly when they are camping in the wilderness and the mosquitoes are flying in a holding pattern over the only fresh water deep enough to wade in. Regardless of the trials and tribulations, a woman will wash. Why is it then that men cannot get the idea that water is free (think about it) and soap does not cost as much as the girlie magazine they just bought? There ar
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