Womanly Arts
So a couple of days before New Year, ABC decides to trot out a program under the guise of ‘investigative’ reporting on 20/20 which basically was a show dealing with ‘looking for love’. It was directed at finding love/keeping the ‘spark’ alive in your existing relationship in a New Year. The first story was about modern-day matchmaking. It was OK – but really targeted at upwardly mobile ‘beautiful’ people who seem to have a lot of disposable income. The final story was about couples (mainly women) who wanted to ‘fan the flames’ of love in their marriages. This story was somewhat interesting. The women went to ‘classes’ run by a so-called ‘Mama Gina’ who taught them all about rediscovering themselves as ‘sexual creatures’.
I was ok for the most part with this piece of ‘journalism’. However, there was a point where ‘Mama Gina’ made a comment about how we treat our men. She said if we treated our husbands/mates like we treated our pet dogs, our marriages would be happier. I don’t believe she was making this statement ‘merely’ about women but about people in general – that if we were as kind to our loved ones as we were to our pets things would just go better…..she actually gave an example of how you would ‘talk’ to you pet. “Oh honey-woney it’s OK let mamma kiss it and make it better” or some such shit like that…
OK. I began to think about this statement/sentiment. While I agree that we ALL could stand to be kinder to our mates, I have a problem with treating men like they are pets (I have the same problem with men treating women like pets). I am not going to talk ‘baby talk’ to you if you are continually fucking up. PERIOD. I don’t really care how much good feeling it brings. If you are lazy and you can’t be bothered to pick up your dirty clothes, help around the house, keep your penis in your pants, then please don’t expect me to be waiting there or greet you at the door with your pipe and slippers in a negligee at night with a crown roast in the oven for dinner. AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN BUBBA – NOT IN A MILLION YEARS. I am slightly (more than slightly) insulted by this.
Again I am not saying a little kindness is not warranted. But you know what guys? Your women are tired. Yes, you heard me. I said tired. Most of us work outside the house and a lot of us have the family to take care of as well. And while we are kind to the family pet – does it occur to any of you (including that fabulous ‘Mamma Gina’), that the dog or cat can’t get their OWN food, or water, or walk themselves – they are like BABIES.
No, there is nothing wrong with talking like that sometimes to your husband. And yes, I agree that some of us have lost the womanly art of catering at times to our men. However, this IS the 21st century and the days of being Donna Reed and Robert Young have fallen to the wayside. That’s not to say that the loss of those things is good – it’s just that reality and the workload are staring most of us in the face and I am not always in the mood to pamper someone when I can’t even take a hot bath in peace. I have to say that ‘Mamma Gina’ gave the men a talking to as well – but the onus of most of this fell on the women and I am sorry I just think that’s unfair and even bordering on ridiculous. I will be more than happy, gentlemen, to wow you with my ‘womanly’ arts when YOU figure out that helping out with the housework, cooking, and taking care of the kids IS foreplay in my book.
I was ok for the most part with this piece of ‘journalism’. However, there was a point where ‘Mama Gina’ made a comment about how we treat our men. She said if we treated our husbands/mates like we treated our pet dogs, our marriages would be happier. I don’t believe she was making this statement ‘merely’ about women but about people in general – that if we were as kind to our loved ones as we were to our pets things would just go better…..she actually gave an example of how you would ‘talk’ to you pet. “Oh honey-woney it’s OK let mamma kiss it and make it better” or some such shit like that…
OK. I began to think about this statement/sentiment. While I agree that we ALL could stand to be kinder to our mates, I have a problem with treating men like they are pets (I have the same problem with men treating women like pets). I am not going to talk ‘baby talk’ to you if you are continually fucking up. PERIOD. I don’t really care how much good feeling it brings. If you are lazy and you can’t be bothered to pick up your dirty clothes, help around the house, keep your penis in your pants, then please don’t expect me to be waiting there or greet you at the door with your pipe and slippers in a negligee at night with a crown roast in the oven for dinner. AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN BUBBA – NOT IN A MILLION YEARS. I am slightly (more than slightly) insulted by this.
Again I am not saying a little kindness is not warranted. But you know what guys? Your women are tired. Yes, you heard me. I said tired. Most of us work outside the house and a lot of us have the family to take care of as well. And while we are kind to the family pet – does it occur to any of you (including that fabulous ‘Mamma Gina’), that the dog or cat can’t get their OWN food, or water, or walk themselves – they are like BABIES.
No, there is nothing wrong with talking like that sometimes to your husband. And yes, I agree that some of us have lost the womanly art of catering at times to our men. However, this IS the 21st century and the days of being Donna Reed and Robert Young have fallen to the wayside. That’s not to say that the loss of those things is good – it’s just that reality and the workload are staring most of us in the face and I am not always in the mood to pamper someone when I can’t even take a hot bath in peace. I have to say that ‘Mamma Gina’ gave the men a talking to as well – but the onus of most of this fell on the women and I am sorry I just think that’s unfair and even bordering on ridiculous. I will be more than happy, gentlemen, to wow you with my ‘womanly’ arts when YOU figure out that helping out with the housework, cooking, and taking care of the kids IS foreplay in my book.
1 Comments:
that is sad thinking. reminds me of the Sandra Dee & Bobby Darin movie "If A Man Answers". In the movie, her mom actually gives Sandra a book titled "How To Train Your Dog." She uses it to train her husband in how to become perfect, but really she was training herself. Good ole '60s mentality, no wonder why they drank so many martinis.
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