Men! I’m not saying that there aren’t bad women or other genders, but even so the words war and men seem to be synonymous.
You want an empire to prove something that baffles the rest of the race? Start a war. Prove your strength and that you’re to be respected. Fear is not respect. You are in fact hated. The public will say anything to save their lives. True democracies take great courage and acceptance.
It used to be that the bigger the gun the more manly you were, now it’s the missile. Killing the unarmed, tiny children and babies, proves you’re strong? Killing millions proves it?
There’s one thing though, at least these despots make some kind of evil sense. You can grasp the appalling side of humanity they represent.
Then there’s Trump
Who makes no sense whatsoever.
Immigrants eating pets in Ohio America? Taking a bullet for democracy when he stirred up a riot? Which also means that someone may come for you. Twice so far.
We thought Biden was past it! He may be elderly but he seems sane.
In some way certain totalitarian leaders do make sense. In historically masculine dominated societies you have to be more of everything than anyone else to survive. Including more violent. But there’s no explaining a Trump in a modern democracy, and America is definitely half modern democracy and half “I’m sorry what?!”
Violence = strong in those kinds of fairy stories. And of course these fairy stories are spreading onto streets throughout the developed world.
Whereas Margaret Thatcher could control grown men with a look! No male Conservative leader has ever managed that. Or any other British leader for that matter.
The thing about women…
Is the unknown quantity. Will they cry or kill you? Either is terrifying.
On the one hand you’ll feel terrible. Like the worst heel on the planet. You’ve ruined a life, and her mascara, she’s broken, you have to fix her, you’re a man and that’s what men do! They provide and keep safe and now she’s broken and you did it! There’s not a crap infected hole full of sharks that’s bad enough for you to be thrown in.
On the other, if you’re with the right sort of woman, she will kill you. No matter how long it takes, and it will look like an accident. You will never feel safe near a frying pan or stairs, you will be constantly hiding knives and checking to make sure that her metal nail file hasn’t been sharpened.
Is there an anymore terrifying sight that a woman slowly filing her nails, whilst looking at you, trying to work out what species you are?
Perhaps we must consider that these despots and war mongers are not married to the right sort of woman.
I’ll give you the perfect example via a story Deb told me. Her father and grandmother always sparred, to the point where the family asked how long the other one would last if one died. Turned out to be almost exactly three years.
One day her father called up the stairs to her grandmother “If you keep this up I’m going to remove the carpet and polish the top step.” To which this real women to top all real women replied…
“You do that matey and I promise I’ll land on you!”
Now that’s a real women, attitude plus tears of laughter. How to put a man in his place and leave everyone quite cheered up!
In truth since my divorce I’m quite lost. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be doing. The house is a mess, the front door creaks so I use the back door now there’s no one to nag me. I now realise that reminders are helpful when you’re a workaholic lazy arse.
I also don’t want to date because it turns out that I liked my wife quite a lot more that I thought I did. So I’m going to have to learn to care about a lot of things I didn’t unless she told me to, in order to get through this.
Dripping taps are so annoying! Maybe one day I’ll be irritated enough to do something about it.
So I think marry all these crazy men to kick-a*se women with attitude, who keep images of Catherine the Great on their walls, and solve the warmongering, riot inciting, storytelling political junk right now.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see Trump have to ask if it was okay to do our say something. Hen pecking could save the world.
Hey ho
Clarence
P.S. My daughter-in-law can’t as she’s currently at the police station trying to convince the inspector that her husband wasn’t trying to take a rare white Peacock from the zoo, he was trying to return it. If only that stupid teacher hadn’t said that the class should find a rare animal to talk to the class about. If only she hadn’t left out ‘picture of’.
Those around my grandson need to learn and fast, he is extremely literal. Furious at the moment as he did exactly what he was told to do. How can you get in trouble for not doing what you’re told and for doing what you’re told. Life is completely unfair and adults are stupid!
I was touched when he told me that I wasn’t stupid, but before I could thank him he said “you’re idiotic, grandma said so, and that’s way cooler!”
So I’m either happy or unhappy and I’m not quite sure which. He needs more clarity.
Deb Hawken - Amorah 