Ingrid, LOL Wal, I speck ole Townsend, since he wuz a guy, 'n much more inta that "guy stuf", jest din't fine us wimmen dat int'restin'. (We'uns no bettah, but "thar ya go"). 'Sides, ennyone kin tell dat we'uns stil haf storees. Take, fer instance: "My ole man is SUCH a clutterhound, it took me 2 days to find the outhouse" "My pains with my 20th chile wuz so bad, the granny-woman had to put 3 knives under the bed to cut 'em." "My ole man is so lazy and moves so little, I had to dust him las' week." "My bread riz so high, my ole man had to grease the flue so's I cud bake it." "My oldest boy only spent 3 years in the first reader" Since women supposedly didn't go fishing, hunting, push plows, or have any other ostensibly male occupations, that was Townsend's take. Besides, he does admit that there aren't many stories about women that are printable...LOL After reading Vance Randolph's "P*$%ing in the Snow", I'm kinda glad. Besides, after hearing about Old Lady Melton, who sends more chills down my spine than reading about Alf Bolin, I seriously doubt women were "more sensitive, perhaps they felt too much of the pain of the person who was the butt of the joke." Townsend and many other men of the times had the idea that women had no clue to the real world, but I think women were just more pragmatic and didn't tell Townsend any windies. Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/