Okay, just for the sake of clarification, I am not "actually" pissed off, not in this post nor the previous one. I'm in a great mood. The blog titles I select are...just to amuse me. :)
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So, here's the thing...identity wise, how you identify, how that affects your life, that journey, those challenges, all the baggage, guilt, soul searching and hassles that can go with it for some people, it's of massive importance to the person that is undergoing it. However, it's of massive importance...to you, but not necessarily to me, or anyone else.
In this post-Oprah, expose your soul, tell your story, Instagram, share your...everything, every detail of your life era, I get it, but don't always agree with it. Yes, I have a blog and books, some BDSM products that I've created, so some people could view my above statement as a conflict, or even hypocrisy...but I would point out a major difference. I am promoting ideas, thoughts, experiences, knowledge and opinions, not promoting myself. What I mean is, I'm not seeking fame nor popularity. There are almost no photos of my face "out there" and the few that are, are mostly with me wearing a mask (or wigs, shades, etc). I can walk down any street, and no one knows who I am. And I am going to keep it that way.
So, people that are doing an "identity realignment"...more power to you. It's a revelation and transformative event...for you. However, I'm just wanting to buy some gasoline, get my groceries bagged, or whatever. I don't want nor need to know whether you are gay, trans, Muslim, male, female, Episcopalian, on vacation, on drugs, losing or gaining weight...I'm just trying to pay my fucking electric bill. I want to be able to read the news, go out for coffee and not be inundated with the latest tell all, exposé, graphic detailed, photos included of...whatever is going on in your life. I'm happy for you, but I have my own life. People that want to read stuff I write about in my books or on this blog....seek it out, they are not having it forced upon them everywhere they go. If I want to read about it, I will seek it out myself...I don't want it forced on me in the oil change center or the gym. Big difference.
And the same applies to privacy. My husband was making a doctors appointment the other day, so we were having a sort of Zoom type interview with their staff and the lady (nice lady, just doing her job) started asking my husband if he was gay or straight, how he "identified" gender wise and...I interjected and told her point blank that was none of her or the doctors office business. I mean it simply is not. At all. I know in this era where every website, business, store, shop, and social media site wants to gather and store information about you, for marketing or statistics or demographics or whatever...fuck you, I'm not doing that. My private business is just that, it's my business...and no one elses. Period.
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An example of "self identifying" run amok. The story below reminds me of Rachel Dolezal. To refresh your memory, good old "Rach" decided one day she was "black", starting darkening her skin, recreated her entire childhood and upbringing and ended up running an NAACP chapter, until her family outed her as being some white chick.
Apparently the lady profiled below did the same thing. I don't get it. I don't get the mental disorder that makes someone decide they want to "identify" as another race. There are limits to the whole "self identifying" thing. We can't just have people self identifying as a frog, a dog, a clog, or Detroit. I mean seriously, what happens when someone wants to self identify as a city, a coffee table, a jet ski or a solar constellation? Fucking nutcases. :)
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Booty Calls are Down!!!!
What I gleaned from the above "article" is...more and more men that write these sorts of articles are simps. And I don't trust nor like simps.
'Simp' is slang for a person (typically a man) who is desperate for the attention and affection of someone else (typically a woman).
The guy below, stating that "men don't have more to give". According to who or based on what criteria? Give what? Maybe they have more to give, but are keeping it in reserve. Maybe they don't find the women they see in the dating pool as being worthy of offering up that "giving gift". All the recent hoopla about "Incels", has it occurred to anyone (besides me obviously) that maybe these guys have such high standards, sane or not, rational or not, that most women can't meet them? Sure, perhaps his "standard" is based on some porn chick, melded with a Super Heroine Marvel Comic Book Movie character, and a sexy Anime woman (or whatever) thrown in. This compilation being the ideal women of his fantasy, unrealistic as it is...how is that different from 50 Shades of Gray guy mixed with Prince Charming and some romance novel and Rom-Com studly dude that women are lusting over and hoping to meet and marry? I mean, why are they picking on men and ignoring the fact that women do the same thing? Maybe in his mind, his attitude is..."basic bitches" don't need to apply. Granted, he's in love/lust with a fictional "woman"...but so are far too many women waiting and wanting to be swept off their feet by some fictional "man".
Women are tiring of their stereotypical role as full-time therapist for emotionally distant men. They want a partner who is emotionally open and empathetic, the opposite of the age-old masculine ideal. “Today in America, women expect more from men,” Levant said, “and unfortunately, so many men don’t have more to give.”
As of 2022, Pew Research Center found, 30 percent of U.S. adults are neither married, living with a partner nor engaged in a committed relationship. Nearly half of all young adults are single: 34 percent of women, and a whopping 63 percent of men. Not surprisingly, the decline in relationships marches astride with a decline in sex. The share of sexually active Americans stands at a 30-year low. Around 30 percent of young men reported in 2019 that they had no sex in the past year, compared to about 20 percent of young women. Only half of single men are actively seeking relationships or even casual dates, according to Pew. That figure is declining. “You have to think that the pandemic had an impact on some of those numbers,” said Fred Rabinowitz, a psychologist and professor at the University of Redlands who studies masculinity. Young men “are watching a lot of social media, they’re watching a lot of porn, and I think they’re getting a lot of their needs met without having to go out. And I think that’s starting to be a habit.
Maybe the world has just changed and the norms of conventional dating, marriage, kids and all that are a thing of the past. Maybe it will never be the same. Who knows...but I know that it seems like every article I see on this topic are people slamming men, about how they're not needed, and then the next article is women bemoaning how they can't find any decent guys to date. Which one is it? If you're convincing men they're scum, not desired nor needed, but then whining about a lack of "datable" men, after just stomping all over them...does anyone else see the stupidity in this?
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Moving right along (lol) this article sort of goes with the two above. Another article where the author...just seems confused. Slamming men for being "cock toxic" in the title, but praising them for being loving, while mocking how the media portrays men and women, but then attributing everything negative to...So much of how we think about interactions between men and women are rooted in white supremacy, patriarchal religious dogma, and western capitalism....men, meaning white men, race, and capitalism, (Capitalism? How the fuck does that factor into this?) and written by someone who renamed herself "Feminista Jones" (real name Michelle Taylor)...what in the actual fuck?
Side note, I am beyond tired of the term "POC", meaning "People Of Color". News flash *all* human beings have "color". We all have melanin...just different amounts. I believe most Albinos have melanin, be it very small amounts. Human beings are not invisible. We all have color.
I don't get it. Black people were called "colored people" for decades or a century, took offense to it, now want to be called "people of color". Colored people...people of color...what's the fucking difference beyond the arrangement of the words? And BIPOC? Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. What the hell is that? Do black people in Africa, born in Africa, indigenous black people of Africa call themselves "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color" or do they just call themselves...you know...Africans?
And the SWERFs?
An acronym standing for Sex Worker-Exclusionary Radical Feminist.
And the TERFs?
An acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
People...this PC nonsense...it's just so stupid and childish. I am now going to "self identify" as the following...a Pissed Off Intelligent Human Being Opposed to Political Correctness. Or in other words, acronym wise a POIHBOTPC, lol. Alright, fuck me...I'm done. :)
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Said it before, saying it again. One of the reasons I hate filming video for public consumption is...I want to enjoy myself and not have to worry about camera angles, lighting, editing, etc. So, this is obvious from my little home movie below, compliments of my lovely...$25 webcam. :)
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Oops, nearly forgot...for those who complained about my last post not having a "sans pants" ass shot...here you go, lol. :)
From sans pants to con cunnilingus (i'll get my coat) :) The sights that webcam must have seen and you look good from any angle Vanessa.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking as one i confess i struggle to find much sympathy for men, many of whom are authors of their own misfortune despite being born with an unfair advantage, especially white men...like me.
Meanwhile, whenever asked i tick the box marked 'other'. Because we are all on a spectrum. 100% male or 100% female or somewhere in between (say 69% male) or 100% heterosexual or 100% homosexual (55% heterosexual). The only thing i wouldn't tick 'other' on is ethnicity, which is white (although we nearly all have a bit of a mix in our genes cause if we stopped stressing about those 'other folks' who are not like us we will discover that, actually yes they are part of 'us' too).
The only reason that i think there is any value in trying to ask people how they identify is to ascertain whether people of particular backgrounds are being discriminated against or not. Take France for example where everyone is by law an 'equal' citizen of the Republic so they never collect data as to where some members of that Republic might be more equal than others. Now ask a Frenchman or woman of North African descent how easy it is to rent a flat compared to a white French man or woman. Two totally different experiences will emerge but there will be no data to demonstrate that.
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I take all your points Poppet. I am a huge advocate of egalitarianism and make great effort at promoting it. At the same time, and part of my point with the post was...time and place. I sometimes feel "assaulted" by the whims or words of others related to their sex/gender/religion/race/creed/identity/fetish/preferances/desires/agenda...while out and about, or picking up provisions or whatever. If someone is at a pharmacy with a sick kid/spouse/parent at home, and an employee wants to go off on a rant...shut the hell up, do your job, fill the damn prescription and let the person go tend to their sick family member...if you know what I mean, not the time or place for political statements or to take a self absorbed stance.
DeleteWhite males? Sure...but I don't know what white males have to do with the oppression of people in China. Those 1.5 billion people are not being dominated by a white male. Same with the Rwandan genocide, or the Armenian genocide or a plethora of other examples. Those ugly events were not due to "white Eruopean males".
Obviously you know history, so you are well aware that at some point in time, going back far enough, everyones ancestors were either enslaved, or slave owners, or both, from *all* races. Everyone was a barbarian, rapist, marauder, humanity was not nice. We should not forget nor ignore history, but two wrongs don't make a right. Trying to punish males, mostly white males, straight white males, for things that happened prior to their birth, is just wrong. I mean, my father, 2 brothers, husband, plus gangs of cousins, 2 grandfathers, nephews and on and on...are all straight white males, who never did anything to anyone, and I am going to defend them. If the goal is to move beyond race, sex, gender etc...and everyone is treated the same, then the people that "claim" to be seeking equality, need to focus less on....race, sex and gender, and actually see the bigger picture. It seems like tribalism is more the objective of some, seeking preferential status for themselves, and that's not something I will ever support. We need to move forward. :)
Vanessa, first let me exclaim! “nice ass;” An almost perfect example of one part of feminine pulchritude…..not quite as awesome as the real thing, but nice.
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed your take on so many things, especially these last two posts…..I have entertained many of the same thoughts and perspectives, but have never found my voice to articulate them as well as you have.
None of us can control where we were born or when…or what shade of tan we might be….whatever…. it doesn’t make us special or privileged or poor or insignificant in life just from those initial beginnings…
We are each our own person…and our experiences and genes help form who we are……and I believe that many of us strive or desire to be recognized, or loved, or respected and befriended for who we are…..how we live our lives how we treat others….and not be judged on the merits of those people who came before us in life….for which we have no control…of who or what they are or were…..
I do believe that on the surface people try to make life and people more complex than life really is….when you get down to brass tasks….we are all simply trying to find happiness, fulfillment, and joy in our daily lives.
Have a great day. And thanks for a lot of thought provoking perspectives.
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"Presentism", judging people of the past by today's enlightened standards, is a foolish thing to do. "Cancelling" dead people for things they said or did in the past...same thing. Lets fix what we can now, and for the future, and try to make things better for everyone. And yes...your points are all...on point. Hope you enjoy your weekend HS. :)
DeleteSorry Vanessa I totally missed your reply the other day. I agree with your point about not judging people by today's standards but I do also think we should not gloss over things we would today find objectionable. Doing so does not denigrate that person, just shows that they were as flawed as we all are. Take Churchill. Yes a good wartime leader but also equally an idiot in many of his other decisions and actions and views.
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I'm not pushing for "glossing". Here in 'Murica, we have morons from the far right trying to do the historical revisionist thing, whitewashing the horrors of the past done by whites, at least that's the part they want to revise. Fuck them. I want history to be taught, accurately and honestly, regardless how it portrays...anyone and everyone. :)
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