OPINION AND COMMENTS
CAN WOMEN
Over 76 years ago Sigmund Freud gave us a
stereotype “the great question that has never been
answered ... is “What does a woman want?” For me it is
a delusion that women do not know what they want,
because I always know what I want.
I had decided to test it, so I did an interview among my
female friends asking them only one simple question
“What do you want?” and I asked them to give me 100
answers. It was not an easy task, I only managed 74 of
mine. They were allowed to dream about everything
from “to go to the Moon” to “being a ballerina in the
Bolshoi Theatre”, but it was such a pity that nobody
wanted to be an astronaut or a ballerina, not even me.
Here are some statistics which I have got. In the first
place 100% of my respondents want to have their own
big, nice, comfortable, bright and sunny house. “... they
are ordinary people... only the housing shortage has
had a bad effect on them.” (The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov). The second place, with 75%,
is shared among desires: to be healthy, to have more
children (twins would be even better), to learn English
and to climb mountains. In the third place, with over
60%, there are wishes: health, happiness and success
for children, to have a car, a beautiful very expensive
diamond ring, money, a new wardrobe with clothing
from fashion designers and, of course, girls being girls,
they want to be slim.
If all my girlfriends’ dreams could come true in a
moment, then my average friend would be a forever
young and beautiful woman with good health and
teeth, with silky thick hair, who eats without getting
fat, has her own big house, a red BMW X5, a cat or a
pedigree dog, a diamond ring and a mink fur coat. She
would be able to drive, speak English fluently, travel
a lot, pick up ceps in the forest every autumn, spend
holidays climbing to the mountain top or relaxing
on the beach. This woman would have swam with
dolphins, have already visited St Petersburg, England
and Goa as well as the motherland with her mother and
children. It would be easy for her to ride an elephant,
to fly in a hot-air balloon, to do a parachute jump, to
dance salsa professionally, to sail her own yacht and to
do the splits. She would be married with at least two
children. Her beloved husband would be the ideal
man of her dreams who loves only her. He would be
a successful millionaire in demand, who showers her
with flowers and presents every day. Her children, who
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would certainly love her, would know she is a good
mother, they would be happy and have true friends. Her
parents would be in good health and have a long life.
This lady would have her own prosperous business, but
it does not matter, because she would be the winner of
a lottery jackpot, ensuring that she would be financially
secure. She would gather her friends and relatives for a