{"id":32955,"date":"2025-04-19T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=32955"},"modified":"2025-04-19T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:32:42","slug":"dont-you-let-them-clarence-dont-you-let-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/dont-you-let-them-clarence-dont-you-let-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t You Let Them Clarence, Don\u2019t You Let Them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life with Father Vinnie&#039;s Economy\" width=\"783\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ig8y7ssl6CA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Men and women are fundamentally different.\u00a0 We interact with the world and each other in different ways.\u00a0 We have different takes on almost everything.\u00a0 Probably God will have to provide two different versions of heaven; one for men and one for women.\u00a0 But the confusing aspect is how men and women (for example a husband and wife) will get to see each other in the afterlife.\u00a0 Will we be separated for eternity?\u00a0 That seems odd.\u00a0 And yet neither group would think it was in heaven if heaven corresponded to what the opposite sex imagined for heaven.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, for Camera Girl, heaven would be the place where I would constantly admit that she had been right about some piece of advice or other.\u00a0 And for me heaven would be that place where she anticipated all of my requests ahead of time and sandwiches and coffee were endlessly available.\u00a0 And she never questioned my infallible judgement.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a seeming paradox.<\/p>\n<p>But on reflection I remember that God is male so I have to assume that in the afterlife women will be given the grace to recognize that they\u2019ve been wrong all along and now feel celestial joy in finally appreciating the truth and gratitude toward men for putting up with their illogical thinking all of these millennia.<\/p>\n<p>There is an old movie with William Powell called \u201cLife with Father.\u201d\u00a0 It takes place in 1880s New York City and Powell is Clarnece Day Senior, a prosperous stock broker and the patriarch of a family of four sons.\u00a0 His wife Vinny is a cheerful, well-meaning woman whose lack of financial ability drives Clarence to distraction whenever he tries to keep control over the household budget.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of the movie, Clarence is attempting to explain women to his son Clarence Junior who is eighteen.\u00a0 He says, \u201cClarence understanding women is very difficult.\u00a0 They think \u2026\u00a0 No, I\u2019m wrong already.\u00a0 They don\u2019t think at all.\u00a0 What they do is get stirred up!\u00a0 And they get stirred up about almost anything.\u00a0 But don\u2019t you let them try to confuse you.\u00a0 Don\u2019t you let them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Clarence Day Senior was entirely correct.\u00a0 They get stirred up.\u00a0 And when they do logic and normalcy go out the window.\u00a0 Of course, in 1880 women were forty years away from getting the vote and the possibility of good governance and sanity were still a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>I often think about who these male morons were who voluntarily voted for women to get the franchise.\u00a0 Exactly how stupid must they have been?\u00a0 I assume they were communists of one stripe or another.\u00a0 But even communists couldn\u2019t have wanted the chaos and confusion that female voting would surely bring.\u00a0 But here we are.<\/p>\n<p>Being an optimist, I still look forward to the day when an amendment to reverse women\u2019s suffrage passes.\u00a0 After all it goes hand in hand with the amendment for reversing prohibition.\u00a0 That was after people saw how much damage it had done and the damage done by prohibition pales in comparison to what women voting has done.\u00a0 Think of all the awful candidates, almost exclusively Democrats have been elected because women got stirred up.\u00a0 Women voting was almost responsible for electing Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris to the presidency.\u00a0 And surely even women can see how disastrous those administrations would have been.<\/p>\n<p>But as optimistic as I am I fear it will take some really catastrophic result of woman voting to convince them to voluntarily give up the vote.\u00a0 So, it is a somber optimism.\u00a0 But that\u2019s the way of the world.\u00a0 We must be patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men and women are fundamentally different.\u00a0 We interact with the world and each other in different ways.\u00a0 We have different takes on almost everything.\u00a0 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