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The Big Idea – Act 1
WOMAN 1: I mean there are three kinds of men: thinkers, doers, and
these creeps. Now, I don’t know which one you go for, my dears, but
I’ve learned a few things in my time, and I can give you some sound
advice.
WOMAN 3: Oh, do tell us!
WOMAN 4: Try and stop her.
WOMAN 1: Well, girls, it’s like this:
Women have a secret life,
Something of it I shall tell;
Men are easily confused
About things they should know well.
Strength is in their hairy hands,
And no babies must they bear;
On their side tradition lies—
Question it? We do not dare!
Yet the hopes and fears they hide
I do not conceal from you—
We exchange them all the time;
Women are expected to.
Power can be exercised
By the weak if they’re quiet;
But not weakness by the strong—
Their fellows would decry it.
Thus it is by possession
Of our bodies they maintain
Possession of their own minds:
Oh, how twisted is man’s brain!
WOMAN 3: Well, all that may be true, but I don’t see how it applies
to choosing a man.
WOMAN 1: Wait, wait: there’s more:
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