What's wrong with society?

[rockstarwriter]

After a long flight from Canada to Houston, I click on the television while waiting for a friend to get home from a training session that he had to attend because he tried to restrain some kid who tried to stab himself with a pencil. Supposedly in the great state of Texas, you can get sued for trying to stop a kid from hurting himself. Welcome home

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[rockstarwriter]

I appreciate the comments. I want to clear a few things up. First of all, this is a personalized blog. It's my thoughts on the world of relationships, so therefore I often bring it back to my own personal interpretation of whichever topic I chose to discuss. Whether people agree or disagree about my opinions, is something left to the individual that reads this blog. And if you think this is all about how this may affect my sex life, then I'd have to disagree with you. This really is about creating a dialog about being a mid-20s male, what we might experience, what we think about life. The fact that you felt you should make a comment on this subject is great because obviously I can't speak for all men our age. If my words create controversy and drive intelligent persons such as yourself to say something, then so be it. Everyone has their own viewpoint and I'm more than happy to discuss those in an open forum.
Second of all, I most definitely don't resent women. I respect them wholeheartedly as equals, which really was my point. It's the abusive men in this world that I resent. The men that think they can treat these women like punching bags should have to carry a sign saying they have problems with social and romantic interaction. If that didn't come across as well as it should have and if anything I said offended anyone, then I apologize. I must admit that I was frustrated when I wrote the entry - I simply can't understand why a man would do something like that and I also can't understand why a woman would remain in a harmful relationship. I treat the opposite sex with decency, respect and compassion and it's always disheartening to hear stories of men that don't do the same.
Also, there is something wholeheartedly sad about persons in an abusive relationship. Not in a pathetic way, but in the way that one never wishes to see this sort of situation happen to another person.

ugh

[vickivirgin]

I'm glad I decided to read your post, Paul's thoughts and your response. Johnston, I know this is a personalized posting situation you have going on here, but good Gawd! I think at times you need to take a class in women's history, discourse and theory, psychology and then some.

The abuse situation is not an easy one for anyone to wrap their head, and I think just being a woman is something you have a difficult time understanding. (Of course, in saying that, I have a really hard time understanding your gender as well.And, I am almost positive I never want to swim around in your head.)
The post you made at one time about a woman and her biologial clock got you in trouble for a multitude of reasons. The one I want to address can be a continuing conversation per post, because you seem to completely lack any sort of respect for women and the situation we are put through because of societal standards. (and, if you give me some crap about me being a feminist and so on, so help me I will beat you into the ground with a verbal lashing like you have never seen!)

Seriously stop and think before you write. Sometimes you come off like the biggest sexist jerk living in Halifax. I know that this is a personalized journal of your thoughts on being the "20-something single guy", but are coming off as self-centered, self-obsessed, and short sighted.
Maybe you should re-evaluate why you are a 20-something single guy. If I didn't know you as I do, and I randomly read this journal, I would have no problem figuring it out. You sound just as insensitive as these other men your rant and hate on. Consider instead the turmoil that these women are going through. Dn't dismiss them like they are to blame or something is wrong with them, because they have made the choice to stay in a victimizing situation. Maybe they have kids? Maybe they have no way out, evne with all of the community services available to them? Maybe emotionally, they can't part past the concept of someone loving them, even if it comes with emotional and physical beatings.
Most women that are in abusinve relationships grew up in them or surrounded by them. You have become what you are today because of the your surroundings as a child. Imagine living in a home where what you saw was the constant struggle between love and hate.
These situations you are commenting on also come from an entertainment perspective. Rather than ranting about it, why don't you analyse the fact that this terrible situation is being completely hashed up as entertainment fodder? Why don't you look at the further victimizing of these single women and then the situationalizing it does to the gender as a whole?
I appreciate you wanting to write about being 20 and single in this day and age, but I just wish sometimes you would look beyond yourself and see that there is a lot more going on.