WOMEN'S DIARIES.
Sir.-The other Diarists who tried to improve on Betty only made themselves look ridiculous. As for that man’s Diary in this week’s Listener I thought it the height of stupidity. If that is the way he thinks women should write a diary then some female should enlighten him. We hope to hear more from Betty. She is a great favourite with my girls and even with my husband, and we have missed her weekly story.-Listener-Reader (Remuera).
Sir-What a very interesting woman’s diary "Thud" writes-I beg his pardon, "Thid." So woman is unprincipled, vain, unbalanced, feckless, and dumb? What a pity not to have gone a little further and added-repressed, down-trodden, cowed, since history began, by that marvellous \being "Man." Even though dumb, most women know that man is the superior creature-the one who possesses all the brain, or at least we ought to, we are told often enough. Take some of our broadcasts (man-made, I think) and gauge the intelligence. Waiting for the 6 a.m. news, and afraid to turn off the radio for fear of missing the first of the broadcast, nerves are shattered for some maniac shrieking in a raucous voice, and proclaiming to the whole world that they have the "jitterbugs"-or worse still, the voice of a he-man whining out that his heart, or some other internal organ, has been mislaid. At the end, a manly voice says "1YA testing." In my "dumbness" I used to think it was the station being tested, but now I’ve come to the conclusion it’s the listeners who are being tested, to see how much’ they can stand. Now, take a look at the world to-day and see how very superior men are intellectually. One shud-
ders to think what a chaotic world this would be if women had been the rulers of the nations instead of the quiet peaceful place it now is. "Thid" thinks badly enough of us, but not the worst-he did not add disloyalty to our many crimes, and so I think we deserve a little credit, for though so horribly unprincipled I have not heard of a body of women going on strike to the detriment of their country and nation. So we bow humbly before "Thid,’ and beg that for the benefit of us poor dumb creatures he gives us a MAN’S diary. It might sharpen our intellects-Just Feckless (Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 69, 18 October 1940, Page 4
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397WOMEN'S DIARIES. New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 69, 18 October 1940, Page 4
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