From the 1920's through the 70's, women have
changed, for better or worse they've changed.
As men begin to do the same, it becomes
a social problem of Pandemic Proportions.
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by Joseph Bolden My Housing Authority appointment had upset me so much during the four days leading up to it that I suppressed my anxieties, When the day came, the asthma I control through exercise attacked, full A gentle Housing Authority employee, saw my obvious distress as my room is inspected, tells me it's "A-1, to keep it that way. I lay on my bed with a clean rating suffering from asthma that had to stay with me for a day or two for The thing is, I didn’t realize how losing my Single Residency Occupancy would affect me. I get out of bed, wheezing down the stairs, rather than using the elevator, so the other residents wouldn’t see my physical discomfort. In the drug store on the corner I see a New York Magazine with something on Woody Allen at the top. I’m thinking "Here we go again," and I think of a Murphy Brown episode. Besides the Vice Pres. Quail/Murphey Brown televised fiasco, on another episode she invades an Iron John, Male Bonding ritual disrupting it, she explains she felt some fear, left out, criticizing it. It’s funny the way men beat drums, sang, danced, dressed, excluding females, like little boys od in their club houses. The women’s movement in the 1970’s had their W.O. [women only] categories in gyms there are still W.O.s supper clubs, gay bars, or other venues, including corporate structures. Yet as men begin changing minutely, most women see whiny, girlish, wimps. Isn’t it strange that we have real women boxers, but if they fight a man win or lose fairly who suffers? [The man loses]twice whether he beats the woman in a fair fight or loses to a woman of equal weight and strength he will always seen as bully or P-whipped wimp. Equal Rights is suppose to work on both sides not just one. The "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" metaphor works in an idealized or futuristic world. Back to physical fights with the opposite sex. There is a stigma to hitting girls, yet if they hit us, beat us, it's all right. The biggest laugh is a woman or girl grabs, punches, throws objects, or the time-honored kick'em-in the-balls,as seen on a Saturday Night Live skit recently. After Mrs. Bobbitt's slicing off Mr. Bobbitt, castration can be funny too, except for the lost lives in race ‘n sex issues. Men do change gradually, not in huge spurts as woman have en mass. Could this be why we seem so far behind to them? Think of grade or high school kids: the jocks, nerds, cool girls and boys, the weird outsiders. Eventually it's the weird outsiders and nerds and intelligent jocks who change the world! Women gained some economic and sexual freedoms. They may marry later or not at all, as being a single woman is no big deal anymore. I could be wrong, but I believe women are still slightly jealous of men. We have begun to take care of ourselves physically, and beautify ourselves women see this as the "feminized male" and get angry. I really will enjoy a future where just as women can ware body slimming-flattering clothes, fake hair, boobs, Women could not tell who is natural or cosmetically enhansed and this includes penis leanth. Women have wanted men to change since Adam. This secretly outrages many women because it's not about them as it once was, but now lots of men have moved beyond the "get the girl syndrome." As everything is not about men, everything is also not about women. If I had the money, knowing that looking and feeling better would make me healthier and help me enjoy more female company, here are some of the things I’d do for myself:Body Scrub, e-facials, an executive shave, a flotation bed, a gentlemen’s facial, a hot salt bath and a mud bath. The problem is, after looking and feeling fresh, I could get addicted to this, ignoring my woman while concentrating on my new-found Adonis' face and body. The new male is not "womanized" or "feminized." He’s changing because you wanted him to, but now he can change his mind too. Men will feel the same pressure women have for centuries. Maybe after they’ve gone through this they’ll say, "Been there without women’s constant harping on what’s wrong, always avoiding what we’ve done right. Let’s look to our own council with our own emotions and feelings. I really think women don’t want men to change too much. And though women still have the "gift of bringing life," men do have a choice in semi or permanent male control of fathering. Ladies:men's changing is not the problem females enjoying the ups and down turns of their free staus also not a problem, but now that men are learning better grooming, taking better care healthwise maybe a few guys Your wanting us to stop short of our own search as you continue exploring your freedom is unfair and wrong. Women, you cannot have it both ways anymore. .You want men to change, yet when it happens you say stop! At last its [to use your term] "Our Turn." Evolution goes both ways. Women have their ongoing revolution, and now men are having theirs, also. I say, in the words of a famous song, "Get Over It." If I angered feminists or men, well, fine and dandy. Maybe it's time to end the sexwars between men and women and get to more pressing issues, like: Why are middle class white children going ape and shooting up their schools? Please send donations to Poor Magazine For Joe only my snail mail: |