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Lets talk about women
17 years ago
I like women. I think women are one of the better parts of the human species. As a bisexual male I like men as well, but overall, I like women. No, I don't expect them to clean house for me or cook my meals. I like to be tidy. I like making my own food. I think women deserve the vote they earned so prominently, I think they deserve equal treatment under the law, I think if a man can disassemble an M-16 blind folded and a woman can put it back together in the same condition she has just as much right to fire the thing as anyone else.
So when did it become a crime to have a penis?
No.
Really.
I'm a college student and when I go to my classes I find that, in what should be an entirely mental realm, I'm categorically ignored or at least dismissed by my fellow female students and it distinctly feels like the cause is gender; as if because I'm not there for sports or boobs I'm breaking some primal taboo. Worse, I see it on TV, and I read it in books: this hyper-feminization where women characters are able to do everything, know everything, possess all the power, while men suffer for their gender as brain dead degenerates.
Will I deny centuries of male on female abuse? No. Will I deny a patriarchal culture that, until reecently, in America relegated women to second class? Absolutely not. But women are not better than men. The idea of equality is for groups to be first and foremost equal and it is remarkably stupid for any group fighting for equality to do so by denigrating another. Who did I oppress? I'm not my grandfather or his father. Whose rights did I impose on? I'm not a law maker. Whose religion did I enforce? I'm a pagan fer cripes sake.
The fact of the matter is I'm getting the scattershot from a counter movement. Societies fluctuate on pendullum effects, and we're moving from a Patriarchal bias to a Matriarchal one where the majority are just now finding out women have the capacity to be just as unpleasant as men are. In addition the bias is moving into our language. If I like a movie with Bruce Willis getting shot at it must be because I'm a "Macho" "Gung-Ho" guy who likes "Explosions". It couldn't be I just happen to like Bruce Willis. But if a woman likes the same movie she's empowered? If a woman watches Pride and Predjudice she's cultured. If I do the same thing, I'm a fag or pandering?
Something is really wrong here. And I'm tired of being the whipping boy.
So when did it become a crime to have a penis?
No.
Really.
I'm a college student and when I go to my classes I find that, in what should be an entirely mental realm, I'm categorically ignored or at least dismissed by my fellow female students and it distinctly feels like the cause is gender; as if because I'm not there for sports or boobs I'm breaking some primal taboo. Worse, I see it on TV, and I read it in books: this hyper-feminization where women characters are able to do everything, know everything, possess all the power, while men suffer for their gender as brain dead degenerates.
Will I deny centuries of male on female abuse? No. Will I deny a patriarchal culture that, until reecently, in America relegated women to second class? Absolutely not. But women are not better than men. The idea of equality is for groups to be first and foremost equal and it is remarkably stupid for any group fighting for equality to do so by denigrating another. Who did I oppress? I'm not my grandfather or his father. Whose rights did I impose on? I'm not a law maker. Whose religion did I enforce? I'm a pagan fer cripes sake.
The fact of the matter is I'm getting the scattershot from a counter movement. Societies fluctuate on pendullum effects, and we're moving from a Patriarchal bias to a Matriarchal one where the majority are just now finding out women have the capacity to be just as unpleasant as men are. In addition the bias is moving into our language. If I like a movie with Bruce Willis getting shot at it must be because I'm a "Macho" "Gung-Ho" guy who likes "Explosions". It couldn't be I just happen to like Bruce Willis. But if a woman likes the same movie she's empowered? If a woman watches Pride and Predjudice she's cultured. If I do the same thing, I'm a fag or pandering?
Something is really wrong here. And I'm tired of being the whipping boy.
*Its not cherry*
the war of ignorant ass people geting a single idea and useing it as a club to bludgeon others with.
Be it religious, polotics, or the batle of the sexes.
Me, I personally delight in destroying the ego of those out there that contribute to the war.
for example, I had a hyper feminist friend who accepted me under the assumtion I was gay, ( rumor started in 6th grade and I have no idea how it keeps following me...one would think my vast collection of striaght porn would exhonorate me.) But she was notorious for using the double standard, "I shouldnt have to, I'm a woman."
Once I had enough of it I began beating her verbally with her own contradictions.
She wanted me to move something for her, "But I thought women could be as strong as me? proove it."~point to couch~
She wanted to go out and get drunk with the boys, "Nope, cant, your a girl and dont do such things remember?"
Eventually after keeping her pissed at me for months, ( not to mention the random casual sex that some how came about...), She started doing it less...not stopped, but less.
Additionally, I have had gay friends too, but I must say I dig the gay chicks more, not because there is girl on girl actiuon, ( that does nothing for me.), but I can actually associate my thinking to theirs, we both dig women and have fairly the same views.
Not to say I didnt love my gay guy friends, (not in that way, but no mater.), no no, quite the contrary, damn near got in a fist fight one time defending his right to be what he is. the antagonists seemed less likely to want to do battle with a straight guy? that dont make much sense...
But I did have to educate one of my gayguys as to how to NOT be a whiner.
He copmplained endlessly about the persecution the gays here suffered.
My answer..."Well, if you notice my buddy Donna here dosent get flak for two reasons, 1. she doesnt wear clothes that celibrate and flaunt her sexuallity in an enviroment that clearly has bias, and 2. she looks meaner than hell and could probably bench pres my car. So, if you dont want persecution, go the opposite way you are now. Be less obvious and give reason to NOT harrass you as opposed to those hidious pastel colored clothes and STOP holding your wrists like that!" ~points at wrist followed by a light slap on wrist~
So again, arm thyself young man verses the most incomprehensable war ever. The WAR of the WITLESS!
but on the tellivison, homemakers are seen as stupid,bowvine idots.
now we have to know everything, and be smarter and better than men and our other females, and i shure do not like it one bit.
a man is a man and a girl is a girl, i really dont see why we have to make things difficult.
gosh this shure has nohting to do with your journal @.@ sorrys
I don't agree with the way that some women treat men. I also don't agree with the way many men treat women. If you want to see Pride and Prejudice I say go for it. Being true to yourself is the most important thing in life. Far too many people get hung up on what others will think and don't appreciate themselves for who and what they are.
Now I get into the scary part of this. I as a Christian believe that God created me a specific way and that I should embrace who I am for that is what he made me to be. Far too few fellow Christians believe this. Far too few recognize half of what is actually in the bible, as well as, the changes that have been made to it and to worship services in the name of conforming to governments and social pressures and have had nothing to do with actually input from said higher power.
So all in all I agree with you but on both ends of the spectrum. Many women feel the need to conform very strongly based on social pressures put there by other women and men. The same is true for men. I do not feel this is healthy for anyone. The answer is for people to simply move on with their lives and learn to love and embrace themselves. But this is not a message heavily handed to the populace so until that happens there will remain that which has lead to this unfortunate set of circumstances to begin with.