Musing

"No one's gonna want to buy the cow when they can get the milk for free."

Hmmm. Really?

What does that really mean? Bluntly, it means that if a man gets sex from a woman, he won't marry her. Right? Correct me, please, if I'm wrong. So, if a woman - and it has to be a woman, I understand - it can't be the other way around with a woman refusing to marry a man because he had sex with her - but I'll get to that later - so if a woman sleeps with a man before they are married, then he won't marry her because he can get sex without marriage. Now, doesn't that seem to imply that the only reason men get married is so that they can have sex? Is that saying that marriage is all about sex? Interesting thought. Let's ask some married people. Mom and Dad....ummm, never mind. Anyway, I don't think sex is the main reason people get married, or should get married. I don't even think the (sometimes) unwanted results of sex are good reasons to get married, but that's not part of this discussion. What is part of this discussion is my curiosity as to why a man must do the buying, and why-oh-why is the woman a cow?!?

The buying is marriage, so does that suggest that a man buys a woman? Not necessarily. What then, is he buying? The milk, or, sex. So, when a man proposes, is he saying that if a woman agrees to marry him, she has to give him milk whenever he wants? Knowing what I know of marriage (not from practical experience, but from observation), that doesn't seem to be the case. And knowing what I know of sex, isn't it the woman who does the "milking" anyway? Nevermind. Why is it that a woman is considered "the goods" and the man is the one who decides if he wants to buy? Why can't a woman sample a man's "goods" and then decide if she wants to "buy"? I do believe that it's up to the guy to propose marriage, and not the woman, but at the same time, a proposal is something that can be rejected. Just because a man offers, a woman doesn't have to accept. I'm getting off topic.

My point is that giving out milk for free doesn't make sense, not in today's world. Both men and women have a need for milk, and both are equally at liberty to shop around. Why then, is it that women are castigated for shopping around and giving out "free samples" and not men? (On a related note, people talk about loose women all the time, but where are the loose men?) That smells like a dirty double standard to me.