"Nah, I don't need driving lessons..."
So, I'm 26. Four years left before my deadline for experiencing adventure. You know... sometimes I resent living in this modern age. It's so hard to impress women anymore. I mean, I open a door for a woman, and I'm a misogynist. Maybe, just maybe, I like opening doors for women. I dunno, I am probably not being very clear.
Ok, for thousands of years, men have oppressed women. Bad deal. However, I am convinced that up until the agricultural revolution, men and women got along pretty well. Dudes and perhaps the more adventurous women would go out in the field to hunt, and the women and less robust men would stay around the camp making things the hunters needed, cooking, gathering food, and taking care of the kids. An equitable division of labor.
That's what I like to think, at least. I mean the paleolithic era was a bitch. Men couldn't possibly oppress women AND bring home the food. Nature had to have forced equity.
Nowadays, if I were to drag a bleeding, speared deer carcass to an average woman, I would be arrested. It's fucked up. Yes, we live three times longer than our ancestors, yes, we have went to the Moon. It's just... a sports car and acting like an asshole to the wait staff is how to get a girl? How did this happen to us?
Am I making any sense at all?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Jason Priestly
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women oppressed themselves. i think it goes in cycles. most men have no problems seeing women as equal. at least as equal as men and women can be. but then, women want shit. and they want to be coddled and fluffed, and cared for. this leads to women not being useful in the business/political world. which makes them not part of the law making process. however, feel this whole cycle is relatively recent. think about it, throughout history, women have been rulers on many occaisions. hell, a woman was single handedly responsible for the proliferation of her nation under the rule of another nation that she was instrumental in throwing into turmoil.
If you dragged a bleeding, speared deer carcass to me, I'd marry you on the spot. Well, after you washed your hands.
Also, being rude to waitstaff is basically asking me to excuse myself to the bathroom to make a prompt exit. Pet peeve of mine.
Those assholes you mention aren't getting the women because they're dicks to the waitstaff, they get the woman because they have money. Yet another way the women (other women, not me) oppress themselves, as Chud pointed out. You know, I'm starting to think I need to take a good, hard look at my values because I continually agree with someone named Drunken Chud.
I don't think thousands of years is the right term.
In hunter/gatherer societies, men and women had equal status. It wasn't until the idea of land ownership started that the real opression began. Because men decided that this piece of dirt was theirs, and it should be passed along to their offspring. But...what if that kid wasn't my son? We'd better make sure that women are kept as virgins until they are married, and make DAMN sure they don't stray after they are married. That's the only way to guarentee that the children she bears are mine. I really don't think she should have a say in the matter. Hey, maybe I can trade my daughter for that sweet piece of land by the river...
and thus began the opression.
esc, land ownership/territoriality was around waaaay before the concept of trading virgin daughters. i mean, monogomy was never a thing of the ancients. the alpha male bred with the females. he controlled the territory and allowed people to live with him in a tribe. family units as we know them, back then were a myth. women bore children for the good of the group. more hunters/breeders meant proliferation through the ages. survival of the fittest. it's not really till christianity that women were truly oppressed. though, grecko-roman religions tended to slant, they slanted in both directions. yet somehow government of the time was slanted towards the male. which is why plato's republic was so controversial. but really, until then, women were pretty much equal. sure they didn't want women going to battle, cuz really who wants to watch some body you were just banging get their skull crushed in? well, i guess the spartans... damn wierdos. i don't know if any of that makes sense as i have been drinking since noon. and it's 4:19am. so, feel free to call me all kinds of asshole. i gave you enough ammo. or at least, i should have.
cindy lou... it's ok. you should give yourself up to your temptation... hehehehhehe.
Funny, I know lots of women who are/would be impressed by guys opening doors for them.
And as someone who was once a waitress, there are few things you can do to piss me off as fast as being rude to the waitstaff.
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