i’m flipping channels and found a show on pbs. the description said something about blah blah experience with other women blah blah. i’ve had a lot of problems and a lot of questions lately about my relationship with other women, so i tuned in.
it’s a singer songwriter singing songs, apparently, about women’s relationships.
she sang one about “only a woman knows”. i’m not sure i believe it. is it true? are there things that only other women can understand about me … or about other women’s women? can men not understand fear? sure, they don’t know the exact pain of childbirth, but they know the fear of being a good parent, don’t they? do they not understand a broken heart? have none of them faced cancer? or none of them a cancer that made them question if they would be as much a “man” when they were finished with treatment?
i just don’t buy it. but i think maybe this is why i don’t get women. i don’t believe this stuff and that seems to be what keeps me out of the exclusive group. maybe that’s what only a woman knows… what it is that only a woman knows.