a "small" rant
I don’t get it, I just don’t fucking get it. I don’t understand how people can be so mean. What is about us (humankind) that causes us to willingly inflict torment upon other beings, especially those like us…in the same genus at least? I’m not saying it’s alright to fuck up the whales or to skin minks but that’s another story.
Now, reading about the Cambodian Killing Fields clearly illustrated how in the name of something no more than an ideal people are willing to murder or inflict pain on millions.
Now, specifically…I want to know why it is, the majority of the time, Men that do this.
Why is it that men are so violent and mean…why is it that they can be cruel to those that don’t deserve it? How can they use people for base needs and not care?
Why is it when you can put a pile of wooden blocks, just normal every day shaped wooden blocks: squares, rectangles, triangles, etc, the girl’ll make little houses or construct and build things. But the boys, the boys will use the blocks as guns or hit each other and only build things to be knocked down. Why this dichotomy? Why this vast fissure in personalities? Why the violent activities and why do these men grow up, and then treat the women as the wooden bricks, only build them up to tare them down or use them?
Is it really simply residue left over from the ice age hunter/gatherer? Has it really been all these millennia and we still don’t have it out of our system? Is it testosterone? Is it really just because I have balls and a pituitary gland pumping me full of some hormone that I have to become ridiculous and treat women as nothing more than just objects and hit anything I feel like it when I can’t control my temper. What am I, just a baby who has the capacity to kill? Is that all that a man is?
Why is it that men-in the name of love-find a woman that they just want to stick their ridiculously inadequate dick inside and nothing more…oh wait, that’s not fair, they want a woman to cook and clean and sew and-oh, hello Mrs. Beaver. What the fuck! Are these men raised on reruns of the Honeymooners where it’s supposed to be funny when Ralph Kramden threatens his wife with physical violence, not to mention all the verbal abuse, or maybe I’m blaming Kramden for the ills of Archie Bunker? Don’t people realize that this isn’t funny? Don’t people know that this is not how you treat another person, that women are human? How hard of a lesson is that really to take in? Why is it most men don’t understand this and feel that they can just repress anything human about their wives. They feel that they’ve signed the contract and now that they can totally re-nig on everything that lead them to the marriage agreement. The priest said, “till death do us part,” so it’s ok if I give you a black eye, call you fat, and just use you for sex and as a maid. No.
Jesus Christ people, why does this even enter people’s heads? Why do we just use each other? If that’s all that men want, then why not just buy a plow up doll that they can just kick around and yell at. It won’t talk back to them, and they can splooge in any orifice that they want (depending on the make and model of the doll). They can show it off to their friends or not worry when guys look, because they won’t be envious because they can get one just like it for $19.95 and then the husband doesn’t have to get jealous of his wife sleeping around because ideally she’s stuck at home and doesn’t have a life. If he really wants, the husband can fix her up with some wires and maybe make her able to scrub some dishes and fold laundry. The best feature would be, if she pops, you just get a new one; sense most men treat women as dime a dozen expendable pieces of meat anyway-this shouldn’t be such a stretch or a hard thing for them to do.
Why is it that men think it’s alright to rape one in four women or one woman every six minutes? Why is that that someone feels it’s justified in their mind to use someone that way? Why is it that they think it’s perfectly acceptable to settle an argument by punching someone else? What is it inside the mind of man that makes him teeter on the edge of, well, evil?
Is there a way that we can fix this? Is it society? Is it the fact that men are allowed to combat in the military and the military, says the government, is a “good” thing. Is it the fact that little boys are supposed to like He-Man and G.I. Joe and shows like that while girls play dress up with Jam and My Little Ponies?
Why is it we don’t have the answers to these questions, and are no closer to finding out? Do we just not care? Is it ok that I, personally, know at least 5-10 women that have been abused in some form (mentally, physically, sexually) if not all three? And those are just the ones that have actually told me.
I shouldn’t know ANY…no one should…this should be a world where we’ve evolve beyond that pain. But we haven’t. We’re still cruel. And we’re taking baby steps towards figuring that out, but if we’re not careful we’re just going to fall off the edge of a precipice.
If we cannot become a society where these kinds of painful insulting injustices are not occurring to women, then we must become a society where their voices and stories are no longer silenced. When their pain can be heard. They should not live in fear of their fellow men, but stand up to them, so that one day they can stand beside them. It is our job to help them…help ourselves.
Men, have got to stop being jackasses. What happened to knights and chivalry? What happened to Fred Astaire or Mr. Darcy (It would be nice if I could think of someone actual instead of movie personas or fictional characters)?
Just because women want equality doesn’t mean that they’re any less than wonderful. Just because they can be rude and curse and openly sexual doesn’t mean that they’re not worth our time. Just because a women likes sex doesn’t make her a slut. Just because a woman wears a short skirt is not permission to rip it off. Just because a woman is strong doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be nice to carry her books or open a door for her. When a woman comes home from “a hard day at the office,” why not get her a beer and let her watch T.V. while you do the dishes?
Why is it so hard to be kind and tuck away one’s pride like the flaccid useless prick it is and treat each other if not equally, kindly. Why should a women treat her man like, “the king of the castle.” If she is nothing more than a serving wench? Every king needs a queen-treat her as such.
Am I saying all relationships should and are fairly tales-no. But attempts must be made and expectations can be set and goals worked towards. The way most women are treated now-a-days, it looks like an unrealistic expectation couldn’t hurt, maybe then, instead of totally missing the free-throw, they could actually hit the rim…or some other sports metaphor that (stereotypically) men would understand.
Now, reading about the Cambodian Killing Fields clearly illustrated how in the name of something no more than an ideal people are willing to murder or inflict pain on millions.
Now, specifically…I want to know why it is, the majority of the time, Men that do this.
Why is it that men are so violent and mean…why is it that they can be cruel to those that don’t deserve it? How can they use people for base needs and not care?
Why is it when you can put a pile of wooden blocks, just normal every day shaped wooden blocks: squares, rectangles, triangles, etc, the girl’ll make little houses or construct and build things. But the boys, the boys will use the blocks as guns or hit each other and only build things to be knocked down. Why this dichotomy? Why this vast fissure in personalities? Why the violent activities and why do these men grow up, and then treat the women as the wooden bricks, only build them up to tare them down or use them?
Is it really simply residue left over from the ice age hunter/gatherer? Has it really been all these millennia and we still don’t have it out of our system? Is it testosterone? Is it really just because I have balls and a pituitary gland pumping me full of some hormone that I have to become ridiculous and treat women as nothing more than just objects and hit anything I feel like it when I can’t control my temper. What am I, just a baby who has the capacity to kill? Is that all that a man is?
Why is it that men-in the name of love-find a woman that they just want to stick their ridiculously inadequate dick inside and nothing more…oh wait, that’s not fair, they want a woman to cook and clean and sew and-oh, hello Mrs. Beaver. What the fuck! Are these men raised on reruns of the Honeymooners where it’s supposed to be funny when Ralph Kramden threatens his wife with physical violence, not to mention all the verbal abuse, or maybe I’m blaming Kramden for the ills of Archie Bunker? Don’t people realize that this isn’t funny? Don’t people know that this is not how you treat another person, that women are human? How hard of a lesson is that really to take in? Why is it most men don’t understand this and feel that they can just repress anything human about their wives. They feel that they’ve signed the contract and now that they can totally re-nig on everything that lead them to the marriage agreement. The priest said, “till death do us part,” so it’s ok if I give you a black eye, call you fat, and just use you for sex and as a maid. No.
Jesus Christ people, why does this even enter people’s heads? Why do we just use each other? If that’s all that men want, then why not just buy a plow up doll that they can just kick around and yell at. It won’t talk back to them, and they can splooge in any orifice that they want (depending on the make and model of the doll). They can show it off to their friends or not worry when guys look, because they won’t be envious because they can get one just like it for $19.95 and then the husband doesn’t have to get jealous of his wife sleeping around because ideally she’s stuck at home and doesn’t have a life. If he really wants, the husband can fix her up with some wires and maybe make her able to scrub some dishes and fold laundry. The best feature would be, if she pops, you just get a new one; sense most men treat women as dime a dozen expendable pieces of meat anyway-this shouldn’t be such a stretch or a hard thing for them to do.
Why is it that men think it’s alright to rape one in four women or one woman every six minutes? Why is that that someone feels it’s justified in their mind to use someone that way? Why is it that they think it’s perfectly acceptable to settle an argument by punching someone else? What is it inside the mind of man that makes him teeter on the edge of, well, evil?
Is there a way that we can fix this? Is it society? Is it the fact that men are allowed to combat in the military and the military, says the government, is a “good” thing. Is it the fact that little boys are supposed to like He-Man and G.I. Joe and shows like that while girls play dress up with Jam and My Little Ponies?
Why is it we don’t have the answers to these questions, and are no closer to finding out? Do we just not care? Is it ok that I, personally, know at least 5-10 women that have been abused in some form (mentally, physically, sexually) if not all three? And those are just the ones that have actually told me.
I shouldn’t know ANY…no one should…this should be a world where we’ve evolve beyond that pain. But we haven’t. We’re still cruel. And we’re taking baby steps towards figuring that out, but if we’re not careful we’re just going to fall off the edge of a precipice.
If we cannot become a society where these kinds of painful insulting injustices are not occurring to women, then we must become a society where their voices and stories are no longer silenced. When their pain can be heard. They should not live in fear of their fellow men, but stand up to them, so that one day they can stand beside them. It is our job to help them…help ourselves.
Men, have got to stop being jackasses. What happened to knights and chivalry? What happened to Fred Astaire or Mr. Darcy (It would be nice if I could think of someone actual instead of movie personas or fictional characters)?
Just because women want equality doesn’t mean that they’re any less than wonderful. Just because they can be rude and curse and openly sexual doesn’t mean that they’re not worth our time. Just because a women likes sex doesn’t make her a slut. Just because a woman wears a short skirt is not permission to rip it off. Just because a woman is strong doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be nice to carry her books or open a door for her. When a woman comes home from “a hard day at the office,” why not get her a beer and let her watch T.V. while you do the dishes?
Why is it so hard to be kind and tuck away one’s pride like the flaccid useless prick it is and treat each other if not equally, kindly. Why should a women treat her man like, “the king of the castle.” If she is nothing more than a serving wench? Every king needs a queen-treat her as such.
Am I saying all relationships should and are fairly tales-no. But attempts must be made and expectations can be set and goals worked towards. The way most women are treated now-a-days, it looks like an unrealistic expectation couldn’t hurt, maybe then, instead of totally missing the free-throw, they could actually hit the rim…or some other sports metaphor that (stereotypically) men would understand.