Ins and Outs on the Ups and Downs that include some Notes on the Cut, Thrust and Parry that is part of the Great Game--Sexual Politics. And encompassing too Single Men and Women and the Pleasures of Youth.

Friday

Going with a Gorgeous Gay

Sometimes he can be amazingly jealous, raving about it, on and on. He will remind her of every man he has ever found her with, the man with the thin black mustache, the man who ate two bowls of potato chips, the Marlboro man...
Sometimes he will truly make a scene, really carry on. Accuse her of being a mucho woman.
He invented the word himself. Mucho woman.
'For every mucho woman,' he tells her, 'somewhere lies a broken penis.'