When does “involuntary celibate” turn into “Voluntary?”

Jerry Lowe
4 min readDec 15, 2022
Image by the author, or a three year old. Your choice.

I think it’s right about here.

I’m still trying to decide whether to laugh or not.

So I follow Aurelia Bliss’s stuff on Medium. She seems to have a common sense approach take on the entire male-female dynamic. She seems to take no prisoners and I like her sass.

I commented on one of her stories (read her entry here) and it was my usual wise-ass kind of remark. I said:

“Just another reason it’s Great To Be A Guy! ©. We don’t have to deal with guys sending us dic pics!
Made me laugh. Well done, AB!
(Oh wow.. having typed that I now have to ask.. when you’re coming down on somebody and criticizing them, are you AB negative?)”

And I moved on with my Medium life. And that is when I ran into Truth Seeker here on Medium. He commented on my comment:

“Really? I’d suffer a thousand vag pix if I could have all the benefits of being a woman. Tell me why it’s so great to be a guy. Please!”

Now, I’m a husband and a father to two daughters and five wonderful grand-daughters. I’ve also, in my work-life, seen what a number of my female colleagues have to put up with. It’s a freakin’ pain. So I told ol’ Truthie what he needed to hear:

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Jerry Lowe
Jerry Lowe

Written by Jerry Lowe

A man of a certain age. Former Army. Former Journalist. Former Programmer. Now in-between identities while I figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

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