Manning Up or Wimping Out: Men Don’t Exist to Serve Women’s Desires
My son is 32 and single and not likely to marry any time soon – and no – he ain’t gay. His opinion on the women he dates is that they are all looking for someone to take care of them. The most common reason for this attitude? “Cause I’m worth it” they say. Where the hell do they get the idea that they are ‘worth it’? Sweat equity is a foreign concept to them I suppose.
He recognizes a one-way relationship for what it is – a load (responsibility) on him and a free-loading (no responsibility) girl clinging to him – until the next guy comes along. I call this ‘island hopping’ and it is the main difference between the sexes when the breakup comes. 90% of the time a woman already has the next ‘island’ (another guy) – 90% of the time when the man ends the relationship there is no ‘island’ – he’s had enough and he’s gone. Women display their insecurity by lining up the next ‘island’ before burning the bridge. These percentages are my own WAG but I think they are close.
Still fresh in his mind is the teachers (all women!) that did their best to ‘break the male spirit’ as he puts it. Happily I can report that they failed in his case. Too often the teacher was successful with her efforts – as seen by my son’s male friends today. One ‘teacher’ went so far as to suggest to me that my son should be put on Ritalin. I asked the teacher for her Doctors degree – her only response was a disapproving snort. Mine was to call her a Quack – both as an educator and as a Doctor. That ended the conversation. I protested her ‘diagnosis’ to her boss – the school principal – also a woman – who suggested I take my son to a Dr…
Sadly these are the people who are in charge of our schools. There is no flexibility with these women when it comes to dealing with males. EVER.
Some years ago while on a camping trip I was sitting with my older sister and a few of the gals – the guys had gone fishing and I didn’t feel like going. The conversation turned to men – no surprise! – and to a woman they expressed their disappointment over men on a wide variety of subjects. But mainly they wanted to know “where did the ‘real’ men go”? This went on like I wasn’t even there since I hadn’t said anything – just sat back and listened. I finally had had enough and piped up “what did you women expect since you women raise all the boys to men”? Crickets were heard off in the distance as they digested this bit of ‘news’.
The long and short of it? Be careful of what you ask for.
