In the Navy we had a saying: "Shit rolls downhill." What it means is that whenever someone at the top of the hierarchy gets pissed off they take it out on their subordinates who take it out on their subordinates and so on until at the bottom you're left with some poor slog who has to suffer the worst of it from EVERYBODY. This is true with men and women in society today. Men (white men in particular it's important to note) have placed themselves at the top of the heap and women are "underneath" us. I'm not taking some feminazi's word for it, this is true, historical fact. For whatever reason that escapes me to this day men have decided that they have to be the ones in charge. I don't know when this started, how it started and it quite frankly I don't give a shit. I know how it's going to end. With men growing a pair and saying to each other: "We have to stop pretending we are in charge of everything."
You've heard by now all the shit I've had to deal with as a man growing up. But I'm no fool, I know women have even tougher. How do I know this? Because men insist on telling me that this woman or that woman are bitches, sluts, whores, lesbians, cunts, or whatever else based on a negative interaction of some kind. Funny thing is half the time the negative interaction was because of something the man said. I very rarely, if ever heard one man talk positively about a woman he wasn't married to in any capacity, even professionally. If a woman got pregnant it was because she was lazy and trying to get out of work. If a man asked a woman out one of two judgments were landed on her. If she said "yes" she was a slut, if she said "no" she was a lesbian. One of my best friends on my second ship was a married woman and every day we hung out some man would try to "warn me" that she was going to try and cheat on her husband with me. I can only imagine what kind of pressure that put on her marriage.
Its tough to be a man in today's society. Unfortunately, we give each other a scapegoat. Women. Men who are abusing each other always find a way to make it look like it's because of women. "She won't fuck you, why would any bitch fuck you?" "What are you fucking stupid? She's a bitch, she's going to treat you like shit." All this looking out for one another does is create anger and resentment towards women and the end result is always the same. More often than not the women in question are not only innocent victims but in some cases completely ignorant of the abuse their partner has received in the past. Even if the man is single his view of women can be dangerously tainted so that when he finally does have a date all of that abuse suddenly manifests itself as hostility, jealously and eventually hatred.
Don't kid yourself men, this is OUR FAULT. The problems we're having with women are because of us. We keep acting like we own everything and we can treat people (men and women) anyway we want and they have to just accept it. That's bullshit. Man up and stop trying to be THE MAN.
