Larry Gude
Strung Out
Men...
...were stronger and ALL civilizations were male dominated.
Then, men got stronger and started deferring to the women and some societies started really flourishing because the women had always been strong enough to do the job. They just needed the men to be strong enough to defer. This started, in the modern sense, during our civil war.
Armies, until then, had always assumed a soldier was healthy. If he was hurt or sick, he was mostly on his own. When mothers sons and husband started dying in droves of light wounds, illness and malnutrition in the land of plenty, women went nuts and TOOK OVER the medical department of the army, formed the original sanitary commissions and did it all using the power of politics with men willing to let them fix problems that were beyond men to understand and grapple with effectively during a war. The seeds of female leadership, being part of leadership and being equals in terms of rights on a national scale were thus sown.
Now, women are systematically weakening themselves. There are no men forcing women to gang beat each other, tape it and share with the world how 'liberated' they are. There are no men forcing women to kill their unborn. Their are no men forcing women, with all these opportunities, to basically fall back on the one job women could do in ANY culture at any time; use their sex.
Women don't even need men to defer any more in the US. They control politics in this country because they are the majority.
It may not sound fair, but this is not yin and tang; it's not a 50/50 deal. It's on the women because men will still defer in this country to women who understand the one thing we need.
And it's not sex.
But it's not men. It's women.
The lowest common denominator, and it pisses me off more than you will ever know.
Larry Gude (my husband) talks so fondly his grandmother. She was smart enough to know that women rule the world and men (unless they're durhards) just do what the women say. And everything is fine.
And here go the women being stupid and letting some Neanderthal slap them around, ditch them, whatever. And they just friggin' take it!
If women were stronger, men would be better.
AND if men were stronger, women would be better.
Yin.
Yang.
...were stronger and ALL civilizations were male dominated.
Then, men got stronger and started deferring to the women and some societies started really flourishing because the women had always been strong enough to do the job. They just needed the men to be strong enough to defer. This started, in the modern sense, during our civil war.
Armies, until then, had always assumed a soldier was healthy. If he was hurt or sick, he was mostly on his own. When mothers sons and husband started dying in droves of light wounds, illness and malnutrition in the land of plenty, women went nuts and TOOK OVER the medical department of the army, formed the original sanitary commissions and did it all using the power of politics with men willing to let them fix problems that were beyond men to understand and grapple with effectively during a war. The seeds of female leadership, being part of leadership and being equals in terms of rights on a national scale were thus sown.
Now, women are systematically weakening themselves. There are no men forcing women to gang beat each other, tape it and share with the world how 'liberated' they are. There are no men forcing women to kill their unborn. Their are no men forcing women, with all these opportunities, to basically fall back on the one job women could do in ANY culture at any time; use their sex.
Women don't even need men to defer any more in the US. They control politics in this country because they are the majority.
It may not sound fair, but this is not yin and tang; it's not a 50/50 deal. It's on the women because men will still defer in this country to women who understand the one thing we need.
And it's not sex.