Othering the "female perspective"
One of those dumb email forwards I often get from a godbag ex-co-worker.
Man riding a Harley
A man was riding his Harley along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head... In a booming voice, the Lord said, "Because you have tried to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish."
The biker pulled over and said, "Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can ride over anytime I want".
The Lord said, "Your request is materialistic. Think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking; the supports required to reach the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and steel it would take! I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that could possibly help mankind."
The biker thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said, "Lord, I wish that I, and all men, could understand our wives; I want to know how she feels inside, what she's thinking, why she cries, what she means when she says nothing's wrong, and how I can make a woman truly happy."
The Lord replied, "You want two lanes or four on that bridge?"
I don't think I need to point out the sexist stink on this one. I mean, even God doesn't understand women? So much for the lip service to God not being male and God being omniscient. Har har har.
Puke.
I prefer to interpret it like this: The biker doesn't just not understand "women", he doesn't even understand his own wife, someone he's probably been in a relationship for a long time. He's been stumbling along uselessly this whole time, yet the relationship still progressed.... because the wife was not just doing her share of the work, but compromising herself far more than is fair just to make it easier for him to get by. He *knows* that he's useless, but instead of actually doing something about it, he makes idle wishes for his shortcomings to disappear and fritters his time away on solitary pursuits. (Note that having a healthy relationship with his wife isn't even the first priority -- he'd rather be riding his bike.) God can't help this guy, not because women are impossible to understand, but because God knows he's a self-serving manchild, too lazy to ever put an honest effort into understanding another human being. I bet the only reason he even thought of the wish is because sometimes his wife gets angry, and he doesn't understand why, and it's so totally unfair for her to have feelings and stuff without explaining them to him first.
But I know that's not what the joke-writer meant. :<
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