"The Month of Womanhood!"

[elfs]

This morning, while driving Kouryou-chan to one of her many birthday parties she seems to be attending this month, I passed by a church sign that read, "We declare May to be the month of Womanhood! Do something Nice today!"

Aside from being terribly out of date and all that, I'm wondering what the heck they were talking about. Should we be extra nice? Or was niceness only mandatory in May and is optional the rest of the time? Why is womanhood being singled out for May? Is there a month for men, too? (Elf prepares his cage of snark-tracking, flesh-gnawing weasles for the first person to write, "Every month is the month for men.")

Anyway, it was just weird. I was having one of those days where over and over I kept saying, "Where's my damn camera?" I'd left it at home.

Comments

[woggie.livejournal.com]

May Day is definitely a day for womanhood. :)

And really, why stop with May Day? :)

[rarkrarkrark.livejournal.com]

Not for women, but for womanhood. Not for men but for manhood. Very different things.

[norikos-author.livejournal.com]

What I really like about that quote is the whole implication that somehow being nice is associated with womanhood.

I guess that during the month of Manhood, we're supposed to be extra-nasty, or something?

[velvet-wood.livejournal.com]

Maybe it meant 'womanhood' as in the traditional romance-novel definition of 'womanhood'. You know... _womanhood_... a noun, not a state of being. Therefore, since they're declaring it and all, obviously something 'nice' means something nice for your womanhood (or, if you don't have one, for your female partner's womanhood), or in other words, have a bit of Happy Fun Time with Mr. Buzzy. If the womanhood you're being nice to isn't your own, of course, you're free to experiment a bit more, perhaps with kisses and petting, and other things that show your love of the frequently overlooked womanhood. However, roses and chocolates are right out. Womanhoods cannot eat chocolate, and they'd just end up with a nasty infection if they tried, and roses have thorns which... hmmm... okay if the womanhood you're being nice to belongs to a particularly _kinky_ woman, you can offer it roses, but ask first.

May, the month in which pagans celebrate Beltane, is particularly appropriate for this sort of celebration, at least.

As for manhood month... well. Sorry. Manhoods don't tend to be hidden away and ignored quite so often and as thoroughly as womanhoods do. They're quite often petted and stroked every night, and I don't know a single man who wouldn't kiss his at every opportunity if he happened to be flexible enough to do so. There are entire lines of vehicles designed to do nothing more than bolster the ego of manhoods who are feeling a bit inadequate. You see them all the time, on their jacked-up suspensions and their huge, heavily treaded tires. Apparently, these type of trucks are particularly attractive to the small variety of manhood, making them feel big and strong. Manhoods which are naturally big and strong tend to acquire for themselves all the presents and attention they could ever need, too.

But womanhood? Hidden away beneath layers and layers of uncomfortable clothing, placed where its owner can't even _see_ it without the help of a mirror, and where 9 out of 10 lovers will completely miss the most important parts of it, and the only time it's acknowledged by most people is when it's at its very worst and would really just like to be left alone with a hot-water bottle, but instead is blamed for pain, suffering, and every instance of bitchiness its owner feels like letting out during those few days. Poor, poor womanhood! It's so unfair!

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

You are made of win.

[rhonan.livejournal.com]

Was this a Catholic/Anglican church, or an evangelical one? It would make sense if it was a Catholic church, as May is traditionally the month dedicated to Mary, and by extension, to all women.

[genkitty.livejournal.com]

If it helps, June is officially Men's Health Awareness Month.