Tuesday, January 10, 2006

A Stay At A White Mountain Hut

A Forward on Sexual Discrimination
During the Eighties the college ratio was 45% Women and 55% Men. The Womens groups said that this unjust descrepency had to be fixed immediately. At present the college ratio is 65% Women and 35% Men. All those Womens groups that were so demanding of justice are silent N.O.W.

(Origional post at yahoo 360 Tuesday, Nov 15, 2005 - 02:24pm (PST) )


A Stay At A White Mountain Hut


The feats of the Hut Boys are legendary among AT Hikers; How these Hut Boys would carry loads in excess of one hundred pounds up the mountain paths to the Huts. There was a competition to see which Hut served the best meals and filled the guests. It was late afternoon too late to go on to the next Hut. In the White mountains hikers are required to use the Huts at night. (Through Hikers; Hikers who are hiking the entire trail are allowed to stay and eat at the huts in exchange for work.) Stepping inside the Hut I was warmly greeted by Doris who was earning college tuition by working as crew. The crew chief Jana The Hut (the n is pronounced as v) was in the back room with her boyfriend recovering from a long hike. Just then Gogirl stumbles into the room under
her sixty pound packboard load. Soon Doris was bandaging Gogirls scrapped knee, while we all sat eying the food on the packboard. Gogirl soon launched into chatter of her Heroic climb and how she can't use the pack boards head strap because it makes her fall over backwards. Jana the Huts boyfriend entered carrying a home made none standard packboard, He explained that as a feminist he believed that a woman could accomplish anything that a man could accomplish only better, that is why they make good bosses. So he made this packboard to help Jana The Hut pack in supplies. As Jana's feminist friend left through the door mentioning that all societal problems would be solved when women ran the world. Enter Joe Alumni (a former Hut Boy from twenty years ago); and with his wife Mrs. Sue Alumni. Joe noticed that none of the crew were carrying
fully loaded pack boards, the loads couldn't weigh more than seventy pounds and inquired as to what type of meals were served nowadays. Jana The Hut brilliantly explained that there was a misconception in placing emphasis on pack weight since there was wastage in food preparation. The importance of individual serving weight couldn't be ignored. The average weight of each serving has actually increased from twenty years ago. Jana The Hut returned to the crew room where her paper work awaited.
Gogirl spotted Eggshell approaching carrying a hundred pound plus packboard despite being warned by Jana The Hut about packing too much; Gogirl mentioning that it never fails when Jana The Hut is clear Eggshell shows up , must be E.S.P. Not exactly Eggshell has been interacting with Man hating Female Supremest since his third grade teacher; hence the reason for his moniker walking on eggshells. Eggshell was the impediment to Jana The Hut's desire of an all female crew, the secondary reason was that Doris, Eggshell, and Gogirl are gender equalists, that is they believe that a womens self valuation is not based on how well women achieve male traits as Jana The Hut believes, instead traits of both genders are to be appreciated and valued. That is a womens contributions to society are to be valued and respected and rewarded as are mens contributions.
During the evening meal there was much comment of how heavy the meal was while Jana The Hut sat glowing while soaking up the comments. Jello was served as the appetizer, the tender Pasta melted in your mouth and for dessert was sponge cake, at least it was Joe's estimation due to the water oozing onto the dish.
As is customary during the evening after dinner one of the crew will lecture on a topic of the
presenters choice. Jana The Hut's subject was the advancement of women, How at one time there was only Hut Boys while today there are crews with Women included. We were also informed how fortunate we were to have her in charge of the Hut. She was only working this season as a favor to the Green Mountain Club. One of the guests Joe, asked why there wasn't any men in charge of any of the Huts. Jana The Hut who couldn't pack more than half a load without her boy friends help, looked directly into the mans eye and replied that there weren't any qualified men. Joe mumbled something about femperical reasoning trumping empirical reasoning. Afterward we all commited on how Jana The Jana The Hut's lecture was that it was presented in a modest manner. Eying the line with bloated bladders forming as the restroom, Jana The Hut concluded the lecture and went into the crew room.
After breakfast came time to do my chore. Gogirl was busily directing the capping, removal, and placement of the drums. While Doris expertly rigged the hoist. Eggshell procured the empty barrels and the carrying stave's. When The Barrels were capped and staved, Doris and Gogirl stood with a strange expectant look while Eggshell, another hiker and I each grabbed three of the four stave ends. Sue Alumni saved the day by volunteering Joe for the fourth stave position. As We were porting the barrel Joe made a comment about Jana The Hut's equality lecture.

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