Telephone bills, automo-bills
Instead of one small group, I am going to rant on women for a bit here.
To preface, I love women. Not in the sleazy:
I love all women, man. I’d love, everyone that I had a chance to get with, if you know what I mean. (wink, wink. Nudge, nudge) I’ll say no more.
No, but there are a great number of women in my life that I cherish. From friends to family, they, in a set number of circumstances can be everything men you like can be and more.
If only for their predisposed inability not to care about anything. Anything remotely abnormal, and they weep.
From a scrape on your knee, to a rough week, to a kid down a well in Nova Scotia, they care about it.
But the problem is that they take this as a permanent “get out of jail free” card.
My co-contributor mentioned this in one of his vent sessions saying:
When a gal does something good, it reflects on all women. When she does something bad, we don’t talk about it at all.
Really, lets get more to it:
Can women ever be called on being wrong? Can we as a society call them on this?
Even when the creator of “Desperate Housewives” says: “It’s a SATIRE people” women take it as a rubber stamp that they can’t make mistakes.
So, a woman gives her husband the cold shoulder for 20 years?
She gets half.
So, a klutz of a woman burns down a house?
She’s so endearing and just like us.
So, a woman kills her 5 kids and blames it on a black man?
She was depressed.
So, Eileen Wormous (see the movie Monster) kills tons of her John’s.
She fought back against the men and killed a lot of them. (let me note two things: 1. I hate spousal, domestic, and any form where a man or stronger partner beats the other. It’s about as despicable as it gets. 2. There is fighting back, there is the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. These are acts of power. Killing sprees are awful. No matter who, and no one should be liked. I know that’s not really the point of the movie, but a lot of the aftermath of movie called Eileen a strong person, in a almost condoning fashion, which note is not the filmmakers, but the audience that is to blame)
I am blaming women here, but more so, the blame getter is Destiny’s Child:
I’ll start with an old review I did:
http://www.epinions.com/musc-review-B46-1E60A2D-390B41C4-prod5
Destiny’s Child rose to fame and survived because they were like their music, they were pretty, hollow enough not to be taken too seriously. While they take themselves seriously as artists, and there are a bunch of fans of their music who dangerously take their word as verity on life, most of the success of the band can be traced to their disposability. Kudos to Matthew Roland, who learned from the mistakes of The Supremes, and making everyone except for the star (Beyoncé or Diana Ross) expendable.
The songs are ones that people can go out and hear at a club and dance to. The production is pop polish, taking a simple, old formula and giving it a new Pro –Tools enhanced sound.
2 subthoughts here:
1. Thank you NASA. The technology is astounding.
2. In any given DC song, here is a list of noticeable trends. Better yet, lets make a drinking game.
One-3 second drink.
A. When you hear more than one Beyoncé vocal track.
B. When Beyoncé harmonizes over the melody for more than 5 seconds.
C. When they use the phrase “My Man.”
D. They needlessly reference pop culture (Sex and the City, Survivor)
E. The Phrase on my own is touched upon.
F. They use their actual names in the song
G. You can recognize where they stole melody from.
H. They call on men to provide.
Two-3 Second Drinks:
A. When a phrase is repeated outside of the chorus more than twice.
B. Anytime they mention something with Faith.
C. When ever the third member sings.
D. They ask each other questions in the song.
E. Any time they invoke street credibility
F. They mention the lacking sexual qualities of men
Finish your drink:
A. Anyone of them expresses sorrow about their actions.
B. You hear a song by them not about dating or relationships.
C. They mention the other person cheating or being suspicious
D. They mention looking at other men (double if in the same song with C.)
E. Kelly or Michelle gets a part longer than Beyoncé
Rob the liquor store:
A. If they ever admit it was their fault.
B. The song doesn’t have Beyoncé take a long solo around the ¾ mark of the song.
C. They sing about a member kicked out the group by Beyoncé’s father (or mention them in public)
D. They actually make a positive song about being in love or dating.
It’s sickening isn’t it.
And not just in the double entendre thing with the drinking game (you’ll be on the floor by the halfway point of the album) its that their isn’t a single positive or nice thing in any of the songs.
Of course we of men let some of these things slide because they are hot (and we’re to blame on that one, but last I checked, you women aren’t buying any albums in mass made by unattractive women).
It goes back to the whole thing I wrote about in the post about changing the criteria and that we are the ones to blame. We are the ones letting this happen, and more so, it’s the bigger fundamental problem of shifting the criticism.
Do I hate DC because they are females. No. I hate them because they are actively lowering the good aspects of women. It’s not that they are removing the notion of responsibility from the female gender, but they are not putting in it’s place. It’s like being get paid to do less at work.
I am not complaining about losing anything as much as I am ruing the fact that there is no trade. It’s a lose-lose for one side, and a win-win for the other, but the problem is that the other side is doing nothing with the growth.
They are having the cake, eating it too, with another man, let me add, and then sending us the bill.
For the women I love, I’d put up with it. Just not with everyone else.
Why? Because when you love someone you inherently have to know (not believe) that person will become better, and you will be the one to help. And vice versa.
I’ll quote two texts here:
1. With great power, comes great responsibility. (Spiderman)
You don’t have to pull equal weight, you just have to do some. This is a freedom, one that men have albeit had for far too long, but the grace period is over, and it’s time to practice what you preach.
2. The problem is that you didn’t earn this. You stood on the shoulders of genius and instead of wondering if you should, you wondered if you could. (Jurassic Park)
Gloria Steinum, Susan B. Anthony, and your mothers are the genius. I’ll leave it at that while you try to emulate the pop stars of today.
So while B and crew keep fighting the fight to make themselves just as tough.
The women men marry are supposed to make them better fathers.
And the men are supposed to turn them into mothers.
It’s about time we re-established this deal. Where the bond is one of selflessness, not of competition and spite. Link
To preface, I love women. Not in the sleazy:
I love all women, man. I’d love, everyone that I had a chance to get with, if you know what I mean. (wink, wink. Nudge, nudge) I’ll say no more.
No, but there are a great number of women in my life that I cherish. From friends to family, they, in a set number of circumstances can be everything men you like can be and more.
If only for their predisposed inability not to care about anything. Anything remotely abnormal, and they weep.
From a scrape on your knee, to a rough week, to a kid down a well in Nova Scotia, they care about it.
But the problem is that they take this as a permanent “get out of jail free” card.
My co-contributor mentioned this in one of his vent sessions saying:
When a gal does something good, it reflects on all women. When she does something bad, we don’t talk about it at all.
Really, lets get more to it:
Can women ever be called on being wrong? Can we as a society call them on this?
Even when the creator of “Desperate Housewives” says: “It’s a SATIRE people” women take it as a rubber stamp that they can’t make mistakes.
So, a woman gives her husband the cold shoulder for 20 years?
She gets half.
So, a klutz of a woman burns down a house?
She’s so endearing and just like us.
So, a woman kills her 5 kids and blames it on a black man?
She was depressed.
So, Eileen Wormous (see the movie Monster) kills tons of her John’s.
She fought back against the men and killed a lot of them. (let me note two things: 1. I hate spousal, domestic, and any form where a man or stronger partner beats the other. It’s about as despicable as it gets. 2. There is fighting back, there is the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. These are acts of power. Killing sprees are awful. No matter who, and no one should be liked. I know that’s not really the point of the movie, but a lot of the aftermath of movie called Eileen a strong person, in a almost condoning fashion, which note is not the filmmakers, but the audience that is to blame)
I am blaming women here, but more so, the blame getter is Destiny’s Child:
I’ll start with an old review I did:
http://www.epinions.com/musc-review-B46-1E60A2D-390B41C4-prod5
Destiny’s Child rose to fame and survived because they were like their music, they were pretty, hollow enough not to be taken too seriously. While they take themselves seriously as artists, and there are a bunch of fans of their music who dangerously take their word as verity on life, most of the success of the band can be traced to their disposability. Kudos to Matthew Roland, who learned from the mistakes of The Supremes, and making everyone except for the star (Beyoncé or Diana Ross) expendable.
The songs are ones that people can go out and hear at a club and dance to. The production is pop polish, taking a simple, old formula and giving it a new Pro –Tools enhanced sound.
2 subthoughts here:
1. Thank you NASA. The technology is astounding.
2. In any given DC song, here is a list of noticeable trends. Better yet, lets make a drinking game.
One-3 second drink.
A. When you hear more than one Beyoncé vocal track.
B. When Beyoncé harmonizes over the melody for more than 5 seconds.
C. When they use the phrase “My Man.”
D. They needlessly reference pop culture (Sex and the City, Survivor)
E. The Phrase on my own is touched upon.
F. They use their actual names in the song
G. You can recognize where they stole melody from.
H. They call on men to provide.
Two-3 Second Drinks:
A. When a phrase is repeated outside of the chorus more than twice.
B. Anytime they mention something with Faith.
C. When ever the third member sings.
D. They ask each other questions in the song.
E. Any time they invoke street credibility
F. They mention the lacking sexual qualities of men
Finish your drink:
A. Anyone of them expresses sorrow about their actions.
B. You hear a song by them not about dating or relationships.
C. They mention the other person cheating or being suspicious
D. They mention looking at other men (double if in the same song with C.)
E. Kelly or Michelle gets a part longer than Beyoncé
Rob the liquor store:
A. If they ever admit it was their fault.
B. The song doesn’t have Beyoncé take a long solo around the ¾ mark of the song.
C. They sing about a member kicked out the group by Beyoncé’s father (or mention them in public)
D. They actually make a positive song about being in love or dating.
It’s sickening isn’t it.
And not just in the double entendre thing with the drinking game (you’ll be on the floor by the halfway point of the album) its that their isn’t a single positive or nice thing in any of the songs.
Of course we of men let some of these things slide because they are hot (and we’re to blame on that one, but last I checked, you women aren’t buying any albums in mass made by unattractive women).
It goes back to the whole thing I wrote about in the post about changing the criteria and that we are the ones to blame. We are the ones letting this happen, and more so, it’s the bigger fundamental problem of shifting the criticism.
Do I hate DC because they are females. No. I hate them because they are actively lowering the good aspects of women. It’s not that they are removing the notion of responsibility from the female gender, but they are not putting in it’s place. It’s like being get paid to do less at work.
I am not complaining about losing anything as much as I am ruing the fact that there is no trade. It’s a lose-lose for one side, and a win-win for the other, but the problem is that the other side is doing nothing with the growth.
They are having the cake, eating it too, with another man, let me add, and then sending us the bill.
For the women I love, I’d put up with it. Just not with everyone else.
Why? Because when you love someone you inherently have to know (not believe) that person will become better, and you will be the one to help. And vice versa.
I’ll quote two texts here:
1. With great power, comes great responsibility. (Spiderman)
You don’t have to pull equal weight, you just have to do some. This is a freedom, one that men have albeit had for far too long, but the grace period is over, and it’s time to practice what you preach.
2. The problem is that you didn’t earn this. You stood on the shoulders of genius and instead of wondering if you should, you wondered if you could. (Jurassic Park)
Gloria Steinum, Susan B. Anthony, and your mothers are the genius. I’ll leave it at that while you try to emulate the pop stars of today.
So while B and crew keep fighting the fight to make themselves just as tough.
The women men marry are supposed to make them better fathers.
And the men are supposed to turn them into mothers.
It’s about time we re-established this deal. Where the bond is one of selflessness, not of competition and spite. Link
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