F•R•I•E•N•D•S - 2nd generation

The One With all the Feminism

"I can't believe this!" Erica said getting into the apartment.
"I won!" Emma said putting her last card down.
"No!" Jack screamed. "Again."
"Jack, we've played seven times and Emma won all of them. You're not winning." Alison said.
"Yeah, Jack, listen to Ali. I'm the master."
"Hello?" Erica said.
"Hi, Erica." Scott said sorting the cards.
"Aren't you, guys, gonna ask what I cannot believe?"
"Oh, sure. So, Ery, what happened?" Emma asked.
"I met one of the university's professors at the supermarket and discovered that I earn fifteen percent less than the male professors."
"I can't believe it!" Emma said.
"You know, I worked at a zoo once and the same thing happened to me. They didn't even know who to speak with the monkeys and they made more than me."
"Ali, I'm pretty sure no one knows how to talk to monkeys." Scott said.
"Oh, yeah, sure, Scott." She said laughing.
"Anyways..." Emma started. "When I was at my first job, my boss wanted to sleep with me. It's so annoying. He would just be staring at my boobs the whole time I was at work and I'm pretty sure he thought I didn't notice it. But, hey, mister, my eyes are up here."
"I know!" Erica said. "I had a university teacher like that!"
"Uh! Uh! Don't you guys hate when you're just walking down the street and some creepy guy screams that he likes your 'fat ass'?"
"Yes!" Emma and Erica screamed.
"I don't believe on any of that." Jack said.
Everyone looked at him.
"I'm sorry Jack, what don't you believe in?" Emma asked.
"C'mon, you girls love when guys compliment you."
"Oh, yeah, yeah. I love when total strangers on the street scream that my boobs are beautiful. I'm always so happy that they noticed it." Emma said.
"I bet you guys wouldn't stand a day being treated as us woman are." Erica said.
"Of course we can." Jack said.
"Fine. We'll see. You three will be begging us at the end of the day to stop." Emma said.
"Wait, wait, wait!" Scott said. "Three?"
"You, Mr. Macho-man, and James."
"I never got into this."
"Are you chicken' out because you know that being a woman is not that easy?" Alison asked.
"I'm not chicken' out."
"Yeah, man! You're in this with me!" Jack said.
"God help us." Scott said.
"Throw your worse at us."
Erica started to unpack the grocery. Emma opened a magazine and started to read. Alison started to build a tower with the cards.
"That's your worse?" Jack said laughing. He pulled the chair and sat back again.
"What are you doing?" Emma asked.
"I'm sitting."
"Oh..."
"What? What is wrong with that?"
"Nothing. Nothing. I just thought you had something to fix somewhere."
"Hey, guys." James said getting into the apartment.
"Hey." They all said together.
"Run." Scott mouthed.
"What is going on?" James asked. "Do you guys wanna know how it went with my lawyer?"
"Look at that tushy." Alison said.
"Uh, yeah." Emma said and James looked confused at them. "I'm sorry, honey, did you say anything?"
"Yeah... It went ok. I decided to sell it and pay my college debts with the money that I got."
"That's great, James." Erica said.
"Yeah." Emma said and started to laugh.
"What is it?" Jack asked.
"Oh, nothing, nothing. I just remembered this really funny joke that I saw on the internet the other day."
"Tell us." Alison said.
"Ok, so, it went like this: how many friendzoned guys you need to change a lamp bulb?" She waited for a second, no one said anything. "None! Because they will just compliment it and get mad when it won't screw!"
Erica and Alison laughed.
"That one did hurt." James whispered to Scott.
"What, you guys didn't think it was funny?" Erica asked.
"It isn't that funny." Jack said.
"What? Were you friendzoned once Jack? That's why you're so sensitive?"
"No. Yes."
"Oh, honey, it isn't about you."
"But I was friendzoned before."
"But it's another type of friendzoned, you know. Let's talk about something else. Anyone has any news?" Alison said.

"You mean, besides the one I just told you guys? What is happening?" James said and paused for a minute. "Oh, no. You didn't." He said looking to Jack and Scott.

"It was Jack!" Scott said.

"How could you?"

"What's the big deal?" Jack asked.