Vessel | Cora Bryan

You stand there in the frilliest ballet outfit of all the other 5-year-olds and yet, you don't smile. Your mom stands by, ready to pounce into action at any moment, being the stage mom that she is. On nights of recitals or when pictures are taken, you go to the salon to get your hair and make up done. When you get older you will be great at dancing, but it won't be your passion. You'll be on the cheerleading team for social reasons, not because you like it. You will get away with everything in school. I can see a teacher in middle school catching you cheat on an assignment and your mother will be there defending you, telling your teacher that it's your right and threaten with angry promices and give him another reason to hate his job. You will become pregnant in high school, not knowing the father and although there is a part of you that wants to raise the baby, your mother reminds you who you are to become and takes you to the abortion clinic, but not for your future really, but for her own facade. She wanted you to graduate with honors and for your reward, since the US finds it unsafe for an 18 year old to party hard, she will send you to a third world country to party hard.

You, voted man of the year, have to give a sexual herasment meeting at work today. It's part of your job, being the president of the law firm. It makes you increadibally uncomfortable to think about doing it though. After all, you are ultra conservative, even though, theres an unsettling feeling inbedded deep within you that makes you afraid.
During the meeting you are very careful not to go into any kind of detail on definitions and you don't use examples. You make certain that you are fair to both genders with "Male on female sexual herasment and female and male, but you don't even consider to mention male on male or female on female. You keep many skelatons in your closet. Your life is too great to let it desinigrate with secret desires. Your greatest desires involve nakid men in a giant tub of butterscotch pudding. Your wife senses something wrong with you gus make love. life and you can't even look at your son.