In this episode from Friends, the girls are into a book which they claim are empowering women and suggests "women are Goddesses and men are lightning bearers who take away their wind".
The three girls gathered up to do a self-checklist from the book, and their conversations quickly turn into a quarrel.
PHOEBE: Ok, question number 28, have you ever allowed a lightning bearer to take your wind? I would have to say no.
MONICA: Do you not remember the puppet guy?
RACHEL: Yeah you like totally let him wash his feet in the pool of your inner power.
PHOEBE: Yeah ok, well at least I didn't let some guy into the forest of my righteous truth on the first date.
MONICA: Who?
PHOEBE: Paul.
RACHEL: Ok, ok, ok, moving on, moving on, next question. Ok number 29, have you ever betrayed another goddess for a lightning bearer? Ok, number 30.
MONICA: Woah, woah, woah, let's go back to 29. Danny Arshak, ninth grade. Oh, c'mon Rach, you know the bottle was totally pointing at me.
RACHEL: Only 'cause you took up half the circle. (* In case you need the context, Monica used to be overweight in high school.)
PHOEBE: Listen to you two. It's so sad. Looks like I'm gonna be going to the goddess meetings alone.
RACHEL: Well not when they find out you slept with Jason Hurley an hour after he broke up with Monica.
MONICA: One hour?
PHOEBE: (Pointing at Rachel, mad and upset) You are such a leaf blower!
What does the "leaf blower" mean in the context above? It's not likely that the meaning has anything to do with the literal meaning of it, the machine leaf blower.
Or could it be that it contains any sexual innuendo? In the earlier minutes of this episode, there's also a conversation about the wind blowing which Ross totally took the other way around. (I got the joke by the way so no need to explain this.)
ROSS: Uh, sweetie we've gotta go.
RACHEL: NO! (She had just finished reading the book, and she's determined not to follow what a guy suggests her doing, I suppose.)
ROSS: (Totally confused, not knowing anything about the book.) No?
RACHEL: No, why do we always have to do everything according to your time table?
ROSS: Actually it's the movie theatre that has the time schedule. So you don't miss the beginning.
RACHEL: No, see this isn't about the movie theatre, this is about you stealing my wind.
ROSS: Excuse me, your, your, your wind?
RACHEL: Yes, my wind. How do you expect me to grow if you won't let me blow?
ROSS: Um... You, you know I, I don't, have a- have a problem with that.
Thank you in advance for your help.
