Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?
Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
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