"PolishKnight"  wrote in message 
news:marek1-A953B0.21035512102007@news.lga.highwinds-media.com...
> Kipling never lived to see the VAWA and "Safe Haven" legalized child
> abandonment.  It's a well known fact that women are helpless victims and
> will starve or abandon their children to death if the state doesn't
> intervene.

In Kipling's day an unwed female either went to the workhouse or became a 
whore. If she put her kid in an orphanage it would have a 90%+ chance of 
dying.
Deadlier than the male?   haha


>
> And even all those protections aren't enough for the poor dears...
>
> regards,
> PolishKnight
>
>
> In article <feovl7$nva$1@blackhelicopter.databasix.com>,
> Sharon B  wrote:
>
>> From the Desk of the Hell-Pope Empress Supreme Dictator of Soc.men:
>>
>> A little literary enlightenment for your personal edification
>>
>>
>> Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
>>
>> "The Female of the Species"
>>
>> WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
>> He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
>> But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
>> For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
>>
>> When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
>> He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
>> But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
>> For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
>>
>> When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
>> They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
>> 'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts
>> pale.
>> For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
>>
>> Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
>> For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away;
>> But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other's tale<
>> The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
>>
>> Man, a bear in most relations >> Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts 
>> the compromise.
>> Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
>> To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.
>>
>> Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low,
>> To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
>> Mirth obscene diverts his anger >> Him in dealing with an issue >>
>> But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
>> Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the
>> same;
>> And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
>> The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.
>>
>> She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
>> May not deal in doubt or pity >> These be purely male diversions >> She 
>> the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.
>>
>> She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
>> As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
>> And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
>> Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.
>>
>> She is wedded to convictions >> Her contentions are her children, Heaven 
>> help him who denies!<
>> He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
>> Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.
>>
>> Unprovoked and awful charges >> Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons 
>>  >> Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
>> And the victim writhes in anguish >>
>> So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
>> With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
>> Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
>> To some God of Abstract Justice >>
>> And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
>> Must command but may not govern >> And She knows, because She warns him, 
>> and Her instincts never fail,
>> That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.