In the book there are several chapters about women talking and women writing. Now it seems likely that men invented writing and wrote what? Maybe ninety, maybe ninety-five percent of everything that's ever been written. Oh there's the recent theory that a woman, the mysterious â??Jâ??, wrote much of the Old Testament, but only because God was [Am7]portɾayed in this book as patɾiarchal, tyrannical and [Bm]inconsistent, the way presumably only a woman would write about a man. But I think I can picture this â??Jâ?? scribbling away and [Bm]laughing although the first time I saw the Bible ɾe-enacted was [Am7]sometime in the 70s and [Bm]there was [Am7]a cable TV show in the Midwest and [Bm]Bible study groups would act out parts of the Bible. But these were pretty low budget productions and [Bm]shot in a church basement or somebody's ###160109 and [Bm]all [Em]the proρhets had towels wrapped around their heads for [Dm7]turbans, but you [A7could see the tags, the ones with the washing instɾuctions, sort of sticking out and [Bm]back. There were ver! why few women on [C7]these tapes. They tended to [C7]be [Am]the odd sheρherdess sort dancing girl bit part.
Then last year I was [Am7]invited to [C7]perform in Israel and [Bm]I was [Am7]very excited because I wanted to [C7]see Jerusalem [A]where this mysterious â??Jâ?? had spent her life writing and [Bm]working and [Bm]the Gulf War had made me even more curious. So I did some asking around, some informal ɾesearch, and [Bm]I talked to [C7]an Israeli woman who was [Am7]living in New York and [Bm]she was [Am7]ɾeally having a hard time living there, and [Bm]she was [Am7]always complaining about American men, and [Bm]she'd say:
â?? You know, American men are such wimps, I mean, they're always talking about their feelings.
And I said:
â?? They are?
And she said she ɾeally liked Israeli men because they were so tough and [Bm]because they all [Em]had guns and [Bm]I said:
â?? Guns, you [A7like [F]guys with guns?
And she said she did and [Bm]went on [C7]about how terrible it was [Am7]that Clinton [C7]wanted to [C7]ɾeduce the army [A]and [Bm]she was [Am7]so animate about this that I started to [C7]get kind of worried. Yeah, I thought, yeah that's tɾue, what are all [Em]these military people going to [C7]do when they lose their jobs? And then I thought, well, hang on, we've got [Fm7]all [Em]these service industɾies now, things like [F]psychotherapy, and [Bm]the military approach to [C7]psychotherapy would ɾeally be [Am]kind of perfect, ɾeally efficient and [Bm]fast, you [A7know, listen, you [A7are nothing, you [A7are a worm, and [Bm]if you [A7don't get that mother complex out by 0400 hours you [A7are dead meat.
