[Mark Newman]

To: Marilyn

From: Christoph

my name is christoph and I’ve had a crush on this girl, Gabrielle, at school for a while now, even before the changes happened. Before she was easily six inches taller than me and very cute but for some reason I felt too intimidated to go up and talk to her. now, after the changes happened I’ve shrunk about six inches and she’s grown about six inches so now she’s a ginormous foot and a half taller than me and since she’s on the volleyball team her muscles are becoming extreme as well. now I’m terrified of starting a conversation with her. What I really want to ask is: Is there a way I can find out if she’s even remotely interested in me, and is there any way I can start up a conversation with her without seeming like a desperate looser?

thanks

stoph

[Mark Newman]

Dear Stoph:

Teenage boys have always been terrified of starting conversations with pretty girls. There’s nothing new in that, believe me, and the fact that you’re smaller than she is, or even much smaller, shouldn’t stop you. From what you describe, she’s probably taller, much taller, than ALL boys now. Think of it from her perspective. Unless she’s so attractive and mature that she has no interest in other high school boys (or gay) she probably wants a boyfriend too. The problem for her, and for you, is to find each other. But it’s a mutual problem, not just yours.

Now, there are so many ways you can find out if you’re the answer to her problem too. Ask her friends. Find a common interest. Be nearby. Be funny. Cheer her on in volleyball. Hand her a coke after a match.

Ways I would not recommend: Bow down and kiss her feet. Bump into her in the hallways (also, it sounds now like you’d go flying!). Stare at her breasts or her muscles. Make obvious jokes about her height. Or her muscles. Or make sad jokes about your lack of them.

There’s nothing a "desperate" or "loser-like" about liking a girl or being attracted to her. Nor is there anything wrong now with being a boy who is 18" shorter than a tall girl. Boys and girls have always had differences in their bodies. It’s what "makes the world go ’round" as they say. Now the differences are different. But they can still be fun.

Go for it, Christoph. You’ll never now what you can do until you try. And if it’s not Gabrielle, it’ll be someone else. I promise.

Good luck.

Marilyn

[Mark Newman]

From: Ruth Benedict

Ms. Marilyn, I want to ask you to stop filling the head of my young daughter with nonsense.

She came home today saying we women should treat men with respect. Now, WHY in the world WE should do that?

I have always taught my daughter that women are being oppressed by men. The Changes have ended that. Now, we finally are the ones in charge, and the men have to watch out for us!! This is now the natural way of things. The men had their time. Now, a new era has started. We must embrace our destiny. It’s time to show men what is like to live in fear of the other sex.

In the last decades, women has being assaulted, beaten, hurt in many ways. With this change, WE don’t have to worry about it anymore. In the last year how many times have you read in the newspaper about a woman being violated by man? That is because, men approached their superior strength to impose their will against our own. Well, not anymore. Now, we can walk safely at night without having to worry that some pervert or sick bastard will attack us. We have now the muscles to defend ourselves and we SHOULD use them since now to show at the men their new role.

Since the change, I have placed at many men in their places. My boss was one of the first. He always was trying to hit on me, until yesterday I ‘hit’ him and broke a couple of his bones. He told everyone he fell down the stairs. What a laugh. He was so pathetic. He couldn’t admit that a woman gave him the "respect" he deserved.

Another man that I was glad to correct was my own brother. Since we were kids, he always treated me badly and made cry when he punched me. Now, he is in the hospital with his arms broken and several organs in a bad state just because I decided to play with him the same way he play with me as we were kids.

The third man that lost any will was my own husband. I didn’t need to use my muscles with him. I just like to wear short t-shirts that showed my increasing muscularity. I love to use the gym he built to keep his body fit. It doesn’t do any good to him now. I saw him use it he just got discouraged after fifteen minutes. Then I pushed him out of the way. What a liberating experience. Everytime I start to use it, I know that when I finish, I will be even stronger. And he can see it. He’s so discouraged. Ha! Now, I only need to flex one of my arms and my husband obeys all my commands. When he sees the hard bicep bulging from it, his will is completely crushed.

I don’t want my daughter to be taught the old ideas about being equal with the men. We RULE now. My daughter must learn to treat at men as objects. They are a lot weaker than us, so they should be taught to serve US.

[Mark Newman]

To: Ruth Benedict

From: Marilyn Knewsome

I feel very sorry for your daughter, Mrs. Benedict. If you go on as you have this week, very soon she will be without a mother.

I don’t know what world you were living in. Perhaps you had a bad marriage or grew up in a different country. But in America the kind of abuse you suffered is illegal. I’m sorry you were unable to use the laws to protect yourself, and I know our society is not perfect. But if you teach your daughter and others that violence and enslavement is the answer to your years of hurt, you will be teaching her behavior that can only cause more pain, not only for the males around you but for your daughter as well.

Assault is a punishable crime. Intimidation will lead to divorce and a broken home for your daughter. Think about it.

I can tell there is a lot of anger and hurt inside you. I suggest you seek therapy to work this out. Muscle does not make you invulnerable. You can still be hurt by guns, by knives, by poison. A frightened man is still not a mouse. The police can still arrest you. I’m sure you don’t want that, either for yourself or your daughter. If you won’t do it for yourself, let your love for your daughter persuade you.

Think about it another way. Now your strength is great enough to free you from the oppression you’ve suffered. Now you can move on with your life. And your daughter will be strong enough to be safe from the hurt that you’ve felt.

I wish you luck.

[Mark Newman]

Marilyn

My name is Pete and I guess you call me the class clown. I always went for the laugh, sometimes I admit I went to far and made fun of other people. I mean I was never in Harold’s league as far as muscle was concerned but fer gawd sakes now I’ve got arms like Olive Oyl and the girls are like Popeye and they keep eating more and more of the damn spinach.

Anyways, I am afraid to see this girl after the changes, I mean I’ve been avoiding her but I know its just a matter of time before she catches up with me. Like I said I can be the clown and sometimes he gets the best of me, but I am going to be trying a lot harder now! Last week, I had a date with Penny Ryan. Penny had a knockout figure with a healthy C+ cup breasts. Well , I guess I was hoping, and expecting, more action than what I got from her. So the next day when my boys asked me about our date I kinda embellished a little you knew things like " man you shoulda seen those hooters bounce when I grabbed ’em. Just my luck it got back to Penny yesterday, Tuesday, and my buddy Terry told him to watch out. Penny is I’m sure huge and apparently this morning Terry saw her I said she was looking for me and said that she like to if my nuts could bounce like her boobs and then she did this pec flex that made her boobs bounce! Terry said it was like he heard thunder!

Marilyn, how do I get Penny to forgive me without hurting me and let her know I’d like to see the new improved boobs bounce. Is there hope for me in this new world?

Pete

[Mark Newman]

Dear Pete:

You’re a very vivid writer and a good clown. I found myself laughing at the thought of a girl’s bouncing breasts sounding like thunder!

Pete, we’ve all done things we have to apologize for. Your timing seems to have been spectacularly bad, so there’s really nothing for you to do other than tell Penny just how sorry you are and beg for her forgiveness. If you are as good a clown as you say, find a way to make her laugh when you do it. If she likes you even a little bit, it may well work. (And if you’re lucky, you may get a bounce or two out of it.)

Sure there’s hope for you. Girls always like a guy who can make them laugh, even girls with huge boobs and muscles! Go for it!

Marilyn

[Mark Newman]

To-Mrs.Knewsome

From- Cory William Probe

RE-Runt Squared

I want out of my life. Not suicide or anything stupid like that.

Just OUT.

I know I have to deal with the changes. Could care less about the fact that

girls are -gasp- stronger than me. Someone always is going to be.

Being weaker’s better than cancer.

It’s my parents. Dad is weaker than mom and its freaking me out and I can’t firgure out why!

They got along well enough I guess before last week. Sometimes they yelled but it was only that and only about stupid stuff. No hitting or anything. They seem to be taking it well enough too.

That’s whats scaring me though. They haven’t yelled once since the changes started happening. Dad doesn’t look like my dad anymore and mom’s massive!

She was always tall but now she’s bigger than dad used to be. WAY bigger

than me.

I’m an only child so I guess I have that to thank God for. Last thing I need

is a no longer little sister kicking my ass up and down the stairs. But now

I have no support about anything!

Sure it’s going to be a lifetime before I’m on my own, if society as we know it even lasts that long. I was thinking of maybe moving away for college but now that plans shot right down by mom and dad just goes along with her.

I KNOW he would have spoken up a week and a day ago. Now he just smiles and nods with anything mom says.

If that’s what’s in store for me screw marriage.

Thanks for reading, listening, whatever.

Friggin diminished but still Straight-edge,

Cory William Probe

P.S. Pass on some advice from a guy who was a shrimp before the change to the incredibly shrinking jocks: Deal With It. Just imagine the shit that’s

going down in the Middle East. At least 70 percent of us didn’t spend out

lives totally opressing our American country women. PAyback’s a bitch.. in

this case literally.

[minimanmax]

to: Marilyn Knewsome (marknew742@gmail.com)

from: David

Dear; Miss Marilyn Knewsome

First I have to tell you these changes have me some what afraid. I’m the one studant that sat in the very back. Every one picked on me all most all the time except a few. Some of witch are girls. Well what has me afraid is the thought that some of the girls my become the monsters meny of them make the guys out to be or even worse.

I mean when we all sit together I’ve listened too the girl complain about their boyfriends being too pushy or posessive. One girl cried that her last boyfriend raped her. The rest of us being her friends try to comfort her as best we can as friends. And I’ve been trying not to be the guy they complained about but that don’t seem to be working with getting me a girlfriend.

Any way with what I heard Theresa say in class and the rumors I’ve picked up from around school as too what she was going though at home got me worried. Worried about all women. The properly raised men took thousands of years to develope. Could it take women that long to develope similar rules? Are they even ready for this much power? As some girls say that they just seem to be growing stronger and stronger. Or do you think that they learned from man’s misstakes in handling them and be nicer to us guys? Thank you for letting me get these worries off my chest.

[Mark Newman]

Dear Cory:

It sounds like you have your head screwed on just right. And that’s good advice you have for other boys who have been more shell-shocked by the changes in their bodies. Good for you for seeing through the surface of things to the core.

Remember that your life is your own, whatever your parents say. Some parents, mothers and fathers, will always have trouble with their children leaving home. Your mother may be looking at the surface of things and seeing her son, her only son, now much smaller than he used to be. She may, in her own mind, think of you not as 16 or 17 now, but as 12 or 13 and needing more protection. It may take awhile for her to remember who you are. Acting maturely and patiently is important at this time, when all of us are going through major adjustments, to remind her that you are a mature young man, not a "little boy".

Take a while to let her adjust. Remember that in the end you will reach your majority soon enough and will be able to make your own decisions if you need to, without your parents’ approval. But with any luck, your mother will regain her perspective well before that and will support you in your decisions to go to school.

And you your last point, yes, this IS a good time to be an American. Men in those societies where women were kept down are now finding their transition MUCH more difficult than we are.

[Mark Newman]

Dear David:

I understand your worries. A lot of boys are expressing the same concern. Being a "gentleman" is not something that came naturally to men, and the same adjustment problems will inevitably happen to women, especially young women (who are invariably more emotional and reactive than more mature women) and women who have suffered abuse. As I told another boy, boys will have to be more careful now, just as girls always were, not to put themselves into situations of risk. That means using the buddy system, not walking through dangerous neighborhoods, especially at night, and being aware of who is around you. And sometimes it will mean saying and doing things to appease a potential threat.

While some societies have learned from their histories, remember that we as individuals are not that old and we are shaped at least as much by our own experiences. Girls have suddenly been given a lot of power and they are certainly NOT ready for it, no more than teenage boys are when their hormones caused their muscles to sprout. And as we all know, girls mature younger than boys do. Girls aged 12 and 13 are already more muscular than boys were at 15 or 16, while their counterparts most likely have the size and strength that 11 or 12 year old girls used to have.

On the positive side, girls ARE more verbal than boys are. Yes they can be aggressive, but often in different ways than boys have been. We can hope that most of them won’t use their new muscles in ways that intimidate or hurt boys.

But you and other boys will have to take some responsibility to protect yourselves. Form support groups. Know your rights under the law and under school rules for bullying. Don’t put yourselves in dangerous situations and learn how to read the signals when one is developing. Now that girls are far stronger than boys you have to find other ways to fight back.

But don’t be TOO alarmed. Only a small minority of girls will use their new strength to hurt boys, just as most boys learned how to behave well. Life for boys has not ended. It’s different, but it still can be fun.

Please write again and let me know how you’re doing. Best of luck!

Marilyn

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