A favorite Kipling poem of mine, from way back. Don’t know if you know it, but if you don’t you should. <\/p>\n
WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man, When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws, Man’s timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say, Man, a bear in most relations\u00e2\u20ac\u201dworm and savage otherwise,\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low, But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great She is wedded to convictions\u00e2\u20ac\u201din default of grosser ties; Unprovoked and awful charges\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven so the she-bear fights, So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him A favorite Kipling poem of mine, from way back. Don’t know if you know it, but if you don’t you should. WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
\n But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
\n For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. <\/p>\n
\n He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
\n But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
\n For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. <\/p>\n
\n They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
\n ‘Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
\n For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. <\/p>\n
\n For the Woman that God gave him isn’t his to give away;
\n But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other’s tale\u00e2\u20ac\u201d
\n The female of the species is more deadly than the male. <\/p>\n
\n Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
\n Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
\n To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act. <\/p>\n
\n To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
\n Mirth obscene diverts his anger\u00e2\u20ac\u201dDoubt and Pity oft perplex
\n Him in dealing with an issue\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto the scandal of The Sex! <\/p>\n
\n Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same;
\n And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
\n The female of the species must be deadlier than the male. <\/p>\n
\n May not deal in doubt or pity\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmust not swerve for fact or jest.
\n These be purely male diversions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot in these her honour dwells\u00e2\u20ac\u201d
\n She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else. <\/p>\n
\n As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
\n And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
\n Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same. <\/p>\n
\n Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!\u00e2\u20ac\u201d
\n He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
\n Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child. <\/p>\n
\n Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven so the cobra bites,
\n Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
\n And the victim writhes in anguish\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlike the Jesuit with the squaw! <\/p>\n
\n With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
\n Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
\n To some God of Abstract Justice\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich no woman understands. <\/p>\n
\n Must command but may not govern\u00e2\u20ac\u201dshall enthral but not enslave him.
\n And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
\n That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"