Bachelor auction nets $1,800 for charity
Kevin Wilson
Northern News Services
Yellowknife (Feb 16/01) - Turnabout, it's been said, is fair play. Since recorded history, man's hungry gaze has fallen upon the fairer sex.
From before the time that Salome danced for Herod to the last time you saw a secretary walk by a construction crew, men have looked at women in a less than well-rounded fashion.
One couldn't help but notice that the throng of whooping, hooting ladies bidding on bachelors Wednesday night didn't really seem interested in getting to know the boys.
Well, they seemed to want to get to know them in one particular way.
"Let's see how they'd like being treated like pieces of meat the other 364 days of the year," one woman sniffed as she watched the goings-on. Terry Greene put himself on the block this Valentine's day, and he knows a good piece of meat when he sees one. The owner of Northern Fancy meats noticed the connection between his job and charitable activities.
"I know meat and it's all about presentation," he said. "You just have to present it the way they want to see it."
Watching a posse of ladies assessing an array of men like so much prime rib can be a little disconcerting.
The men stand in their pen. Some, like Greene, seem a little embarrassed. Others are whooping it up for all its worth, inflicting wedgies on themselves to better show off their bottoms.
A select few, during the underwear competition, offer the audience partial or complete moons.
The ladies inspect, and the glances they give are knowing -- checking for muscle tone, leanness; does the specimen have potential to be put out to stud? Or will he get snapped up for a song and sent to the glue factory? That would seem to be the worst fate of all, and it probably weighs heavily on the mind of the herd.
Lydia Cabral, who said she planned "to bid on Troy," had no problem with sizing up the stock.
"I think it's pretty neat. It's for a good cause," she says. And it is, of course. With the $1,800 raised on Wednesday night the Children's Wish Foundation will get to give a deserving kid their dream come true.
