VICE-PRESIDENT VICKI’S GUIDELINES · FOR THE
MAWRITES
What equality is all about
Chapter 30
But don’t forget that you don’t absolutely have to go to law school or medical school or business school,
2Because if what you really want is things,
3fIt’s still perfectly okay to find one of them who has the wherewithal to buy a twenty-carat ring,
4gAnd a twenty-million-dollar estate on the Main Line,
5And you don’t have to feel guilty for even a second if you decide to get married,
6Because let’s face it,
7hMarriage is a kind of temporary insanity that sneaks up on almost everyone, sooner or later,
8And there’s nothing all that wrong with it,
9Especially if all you desire is to order the help around,
10And go shopping,
11And to lunch with other Mawrites just like yourself,
12iEven if they’re a lot more petty and backbiting and shallow and materialistic than you are,
13Because you’re all in this together,
14jAs the oppressed Others in this world always are,
15And if you should become trivial and avaricious and frigid and mean,
16It is absolutely not your fault,
17Any of it,
18kBecause they are to blame,
19And you are not responsible,
20No matter who gets hurt.
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