A Man Who Knows What He Wants Box Set 5 by Flora Ferrari

Author:Flora Ferrari [Ferrari, Flora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Abigail

Gender Roles in Modern Society, Professor Tracy Magnusson writes on the board and then underlines it like Zorro for good measure.

“What does it mean?” she says.

It’s the first minute of the first day of my first college course in my first year. I needed an elective so I signed up for Women’s Studies. Mrs. Magnusson is well known and I was really looking forward to this class.

I stared at the blackboard and one thought came to mind immediately.

After what I saw yesterday, and what I see now there is an absolutely clear difference.

Mr. Armstrong was a throwback. A take no prisoners nor any b.s. kind of guy who takes his coffee black and his steaks rare.

And the more time goes by the more rare a man like him becomes.

My eyes scan the room and I see unkempt boys that resemble nothing like Mr. Anderson.

They’re unshaven, totally out of shape in most cases, and their choice of dress this morning more closely resembles mine than the authoritative police uniform Mr. Anderson had on yesterday.

And from the snickers that sounded a lot like gossip and complaining that I heard before class these boys are displaying a kind of behavior that is anything but “alpha”…a word they love to use.

The boy in front of me is wearing non-prescription “fashion” glasses and an oversized T-shirt that is so long it should more accurately be labeled a dress.

I’m all for doing whatever floats your boat, but there’s no way any of these guys have what it takes to put the motion in my ocean.

But I’m still angry at Mr. Armstrong.

And maybe even more angry at myself. Yeah, I am angrier at myself. Definitely.

Why did his jerkish behavior turn me on so much?

“As women graduate from college and enter the workplace in greater and greater numbers when compared to men there are more and more challenges to face head on and they start here, in college…the place where we first leave the safety of our cocoons that we know as home life only to be welcomed to a world of passing exams, relationships, peer pressure, drugs available at every turn, and the possibility of being raped.”

She’s definitely not holding back I see.

“And once we finish university what do we have to look forward to? Securing housing, employment, transportation…even utilities and our home Wi-Fi getting hacked. This is the world we live in. A world where life comes at us head on, and fast. A world where we constantly are faced with choices, some of which are literally a matter of life or death. Choices. Choices. More choices. And many are terrifying especially when faced for the first time. Which leads me to…”

She turns back to the chalkboard and writes “Old fashioned men.”

“What’s the appeal you ask? Why would one of these dinosaurs thrive in our modern society? Simple. Imagine the pterodactyl spreading his protective wings around you and all those decisions and bad things just bouncing away, never even reaching you. He takes responsibility for everything, even things you aren’t even aware of because he doesn’t tell you.

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