Having a broken ligament can have its advantages. Now, i have more time to watch the programs that interests me. And given how different I think from most human beings, i find myself surfing the TV 80% of the time. I mean Common!! Is that the best we can do? 80% of the programs are about teens! and Stuff that really doesn't matter.. so there I'm virtually stuck at 6 channels. History Channel, Discovery Channel, Nat Geo, Crime and Investigation, and Bio.
Well atleast i'm entertained and i got the creeps from every interesting information all around the globe..it really pumped up my brain and that is the way i liked it. let's start with women..
Stuff Women Ought to Know..
1.) In India, Men are a priced Commodity. Instead of the Men paying huge sums of money in dowry for Women.. the Indians do it the other way around. If a family has a daughter and they want their daughter to be married *which is one of the holiest tradition in the country* they have to pay...PAY a LOT of Assets for the Man. Objectively, this is okay because it is their tradition and culture. But we can't ignore its down side and reality. Even though India is a member of G20..it also has one of the widest gap in social wealth. Henceforth..a high percentage of its 1.1 Billion population is poor. Which leads to a high percentage of its families were not able to afford a dowry for their daughters..which unfortunately leads to a high percentage of theirs daughters 'unwanted'. Unwanted to the point that if a woman has a girl inside her belly..chances are that woman will go to the hospital for an abortion. Others who has no money for an abortion will go on with their pregnancy then abandon their daughters wherever they see fit. On the side of the road..on the middle of the field..wherever..but if a woman has a BOY in her belly..she will rejoice and spread the good news to the whole neighborhood. In fact when a boy is born the whole family will have a festival for TEN straight days. A party without end wherein the mother together with the Boy's Aunts, Sisters and Grandmother will sing and dance in praises for this wonderful gift..ain't that an irony.. probably the women of the household all had the same fate of being ignored and treated poorly by their own family for being a woman but here they are crying their hearts out in JOY for this boy..then again it is their culture and i respect that. I'm not a faminist *i kinda hate feminists or atleast the radical ones..i mean yes i also believe in equal respect for both genders but we have to accept the reality that women are not better than men..nor it is the other way around..MEN and WOMEN have their own strengths and weaknesses that is complimented by one another..bottom line is..MEN are good for what they do good and what their supposed to do. WOMEN are good for what they do good and what their supposed to do * but common!!..i personally think that it’s oppressive. So for all the feminists out there in living in this country… be HAPPY that we are not in India.
2.) Women are more practical than Men. Of course I can hear the uproar from the crowd of insipid thinkers out there. But hey..we have to admit. Women are more Practical than Men. And do you know why? Recent studies have shown that Women have this intrinsic desire and attitude to weigh things in a much more practical yet complex ways than Men. Natural Selection has armed the brains of Women to consider her mate *Yes. This is about Sex* in a much more practical way in the sense that she chooses her mate with the sole purpose of the resources a male has in raising her young. Okay for all the Men out there screaming "HEY! Its Not Fair! I am not an Ayala! or a Lopez to compete for a Wife!" believe me gents..ALL is not LOST. This is where the 'more complex' thing comes in to save us. Resources..is not just about money. Of course money is included in it *given how our society is so hooked up with it.but in certain cases it may be cattle or dung..i don't know it depends on the culture.* but it may also implies our physical prowess..*Then I come in and say: "What About me!!? I'm Fat!! I'm so weak I can't even lift a 5 pounds weight without having muscle sores in the morning!"*..yet again resources is not also about physical prowess and money.. it may also imply your thinking, or your attributes that a female may desire to have for their young. Speaking of attributes this may correspond to your specific immunities or genetic traits that is beneficial to the next generation of the human gene pool. And too bad for us only females have those intrinsic characteristics to determine those kinds of things....that is why they are called COMPLEX. Being a man..i'm still at a loss how they think.. let's just leave at that..
3.) Women are more voracious in sex than men. I'm kinda sure women already know this stuff.. COmmon! We're all adults here..you know what I'm talking about. Women are more eager to mate because it is embedded in their genes to produce more youngs. Of course Men have the desire to sire their own youngs as well and spread their genes but women are more apt to it than men. And that is all there is to it. Perhaps a more subtle perspective is to just observe and admire the female body. Every crevice, nooks and cranny are designed by nature for nourishing. Unlike the brutish, hair filled, muscular, and ugly male body designed for hard work. So that's it.. women=nourish men=hard work-until-you-die
Whew..well its time to say goodbye for now.. There are plenty of things that I still want to write..but in keeping with my ritual of relishing the good times, I will delay it for the moment. Let the good times roll and please feel free to read, digest and think of the stuff I have written. It may help you in dealing with the most wonderful, yet complex beings God has created. An ode to the Magnificence of Nature.
Women.
1) the family has to pay a lot to get their daughter married. but men have to work hard to be up for the bid. that's why many of them do their best to get out of the country. if we have what we call OFW's, they have what they call NRI's and just to be labelled an NRI means a lot to them... kumbaga... status symbol... parang "cellphone", parang "trabaho", and it can practically negate every thing else just having the title "NRI" and earning dollars.
ReplyDeleteand so men have their own thing to deal with. but i do agree that nothing can be more oppressive than to be treated so low just because of the sex you were born to have that your own mother would abandon you because you will literally be a cross she has to bear.
18 years ago (shucks! i can't believe that's how old i am na ahahahah), i remember this front cover on Time magazine. it was that of a ten-year old indian girl dressed in traditional wedding garment on the street. the article said that the mother was trying her best to get her daughter married before she began menstruating otherwise, she would most likely end up being a prostitute. and because of the very oppressive marriage customs they have, it is actually one that has been contributing to the rise of prostitution.
But to come to think of it, Indian or not, prostitution is an issue everywhere whatever part of the globe.
Still, I am happy we are not Indians and that we are not in India.
2) i think this is where the indian marriage custom comes in to become handy - they won't pay for a guy who isn't worth a dime. and so indian women may actually be smart.
of course, i've never been to india and never hung out with indian women so i have no idea.
however, i do know a lot of women, past and present, who are practical about relationships. but then, a number of women still believe in love. if not, then how come many teenaged girls still get fucked up by their bf's who tell them "yeah yeah i love you now let's have sex....."
but yes it is true. i have been asking girls at work about what they think of marriage and having children despite being career-driven women and we all have the same conclusion: we love children and it's not about not being capable or not wanting to have children. but we want to make sure that we can afford having children.
for my part, it's important that if a man really wants to be married, he needs to be able to afford being married and capable of fulfilling his obligations and responsibilities.
3) HAHAHAHAHA... Perhaps that is the conclusion. It is our Nature and what we have all been designed for. The bottom line... And yet, women can't help but aspire more than what they were made for. For some, they are lucky that they are able to balance having a job and being a mother. But it can be a huge sacrifice, too. And so others sacrifice a bit of themselves for what they think will be worth the sacrifice.
Thanks for the nice read. I've been struggling to keep work off my mind and off my dreams.
Salamat. Its a pleasure that the stuff above helped.
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