Well, this basically illustrates the 'Battle Cry' that's to be heard by all men when women are truly fed up. Yes, we live in a post-feminist era--been about 90 years since women could vote--lovely progress, but women still seem to have to put up with a lot of... crap... (I definitely have other words on my mind, but I promised I'd keep this blog 'PG').
What am I talking about? Oh, how about AskMen.com latest lament on confronting the world's most coniving creature, Woman, and reclaiming their manhood! *Aaawooo!* *Aaawoo!* Please read the article (linked above) for yourself--and if you can get through withot regurgitating, I commend you for your stomach of steel... An author on Wordpress shares her opinions about this, breaking it down a bit more than I will...
Those who know me already know what I have to say to the author of AskMen, a Mr.Matthew Fitzgerald..."Don't, I mean, DO NOT come at me like that!"...
First off, this whole article reminds me of the "Douchebag Movement" where those who act like complete asses (sorry, can't do it, uppin' the rating..now PG-13) complain about being marginalized. Not implying that all men are assholes--I don't generalize--there are assholes of all genders,race,ethnicity,sexual orientation (the whole caboodle). What I'm saying is this article is totally out of touch with reality. Does Matty not watch TV or listen to the radio? I know he listens to radio--he might have heard Akon's latest 'Sexy Bitch', maybe he watches a couple of music videos--we've all seen the halfclad videogirls, seen/heard some statistics about job (in)equality, or maybe he's aware that 1/3...1 out of 3 women!...will be raped. Yes Fitzgerald, that includes your mother, sisters, cousins, grandmothers, aunts,and co-workers.
Yeah, he claims that women have feminized men. Wow, I wish we had that much power. We must be some 'Bad Bitches' and some 'Boss Hos' to put each and every man in check--and you know how we did it? According to AskMen, it's cause all we're really good for is rollin' in the hay, layin' on our backs, gettin' knocked up in the back of a 'Lac! Yup, it's cause all men are sex crazed animals (he painted the picture, not me) and at the end of the day that's all it takes.
Hey, if Lysistrata and her homegirls can do it way back in Antiquity, the game ain't changed...it's nothin' but a chicken wang? Right?
Yeah, but I love how that play was written by a man.....
Man, I swear if this dude doesn't buck up! Stuff like this brings the hood out of me. His article is fighting words in my book. Women haven't done jack but demanded that they be treated with respect! If that threatens your manhood, you'd have to wander if you had an ounce of it in the first place. It's like Yin and Yang--they just go together--can't have one with the other, and if he sat there and realized that havin' some 'Yin' to his 'Yang', having that female presence, that female strength, does him no harm, but only makes him a better He [Man]; viceversa yo! [I'm talking to all you dads that think you don't need to be in your daughters lives...your childrens lives in general...but talking about that Father-Daughter relationship--she needs it].
Going back, I love how at one point in his article he says, "So the problem remains. As women continue to usurp positions of power and influence, as our culture exponentially coddles and panders to the female gender, as "equal rights" come to mean a kick in the balls, our society has learned to deify women and demonize men. The message is clear: women are good, men are bad. And what men needs, the female trumpet, is to be more like women--to be thouroughly feminized"....
Alright ya'll...Hold my earrings.
I saw the movie 300 when it first came out. In love. Absolutely in love with that movie. Aside from the beautiful men that paraded around in that movie--it was the message--it was the strength. It was the realization that if my man wasn't like King Leonidas, there was no reason for me to stick around.
Watch this! (Embedding was disabled, so click on it, brings home my point): 'Goodbye My Love'
I'm speaking as a Woman, as one of the coniving creatures of the Earth, I don't think I'd be wrong in speaking for all women when I say, I've never wanted to "feminize" a man. If anything, I want guys to step up. Women are overflowing colleges nowadays, and are having to be turned down in order to allow the guys to have a chance! That's a minial example, but still--guys listen, no girl wants a punk. She wants a dude who has substance, who has something in him to 'Light Her Candle'.
Badu said it best--Women want to be your 'Orange Moon':
I'm an Orange Moon/I'm brighter than before/Brighter than ever before/I'm an Orange Moon and shine so bright because I reflect the light of my sun/ I praise the day he turned my way and smiled at me/He gets to smile and I get to be Orange/He rules the Day and I rule the Night/How Good it Is!
Trill recognizes trill--so for all you real dudes out there, please don't let this punk talk for you. Tell him to get off his soapbox and grow a pair.
On that note, Happy Women's History Month to All!
Visit: www.nwhp.org [National History Women's Project] to indulge. Let's write Women back into our history. Cause I'm pretty sure we were a part of it*
Bomb.
-Bootzilla Babay;btrilogy
