Why Are Men So Afraid to Talk to Women?

Alan Parley Buys
6 min readOct 10, 2019
Photo by 青 晨 on Unsplash

In the classic Rogers and Hammerstein play Oklahoma!, the character Ali Hakim, along with a chorus of men, sings a song, with a purposefully incorrect article, titled “It’s a Scandal! It’s a Outrage!” What is the scandalous outrageous thing that provokes this sudden burst of singing from a group of men? To quote the song:

“It’s getting so you can’t have any fun. Every daughter has a father with…

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Alan Parley Buys

Writing essays and poetry about feminism, buddhism, and mindfulness and all the ways they intersect.