Of Pens and Swords

I wish I had that problem. A person is only designed to use the loo so many times. The end of my guts hurts…

Lets first go back 20 odd years, to my childhood. I was raised in a family of women, my mom, aunt, two sisters, and the hodge-podge of female friends of my mom and aunt that were always in the house. How I didn’t turn out to be flaming gay or a serial killer is beyond me, but as I was. Being raised by nothing but women gave me a lot of insights on how the female brain works, but it also gave me an insight on how a woman, seemingly by nature, automatically tries to create/recreate a man in the image she envisions.

It’s almost alarming how American women seem to both want and expect their man to be both sensitive and caring and blissfully unaware that anything else in the world exists except the woman he’s with, and in the same breath fix anything mechanical and be completely decisive in all decisions. They want someone who will fight in bloody fist-to-cuffs fights to prove he’s a man, then automatically turn off the testosterone flow and wax metaphorically about the latest romance movie that they just saw while he cleans out the cuts from the fight.

Anybody who’s watched any sort of daytime tv knows that this doesn’t work that way. Never has, and no matter how much programming a guy gets, never will.

Now, normally, a woman who looks for that ‘perfect’ man eventually realizes that the perfect man is what is created, not what she creates. It takes 15 years and 50 guys for her to find this out, and it’s based on coming to a conclusion from two answers…either every man in the world is jacked up, or her perception of ‘perfect’ is jacked up and needs refining.

I could go on and on, but all 3 of you that read this are asking, How does this tie in with Ken Dolls?

How many people have looked at, for, or gotten a Ken doll recently? My immediate impression…Ken is Flaming Gay. Not even sort of gay, or could be possibly be changed into a gay man if Mr. Right came along.

And they’re marketing this Flaming Gay, Super Sensitive, Does everything what a woman thinks she wants, loves romance movies and chatting in gossip circles, and can’t do without the most expensive clothes, toys, and drama, Ken to little girls.
Industry, knowing that girls and women are the pulse on marketing and power shopping, are marketing out men.

Sure sure, boys still have their Lego’s and Erector sets, Hot-wheels cars, rescue hero’s and so forth. They’re getting the toys that they’ve always gotten. Little girls, however, are having their image of what a ‘Man’ should be set forth by toy makers and disgruntled moms. Little girls that will one day grow up into women. Women that not only are going to be looking for Prince Charming but demanding it.

And boys, growing up into men, are going to be led to the conclusion that this is how they’ll have to act if they want the woman. Flaming Gay.

Little girls growing up into women are going to get their prince charming, who can cry at a drop of a hat, not only tolerates but emulates the mood swings of the woman on her monthly cycle, yada yada yada, and then one day, they’re going to realize that the perfect man they have isn’t fulfilling in some of the most fundamental ways.

As much as women complain about their men, eventually they grow enough to realize that we’re the way we are for many reasons. The way we are is the Yang of life…and breeding that out of men will lead to a fully unbalanced life, not just on a personal level, but with society as a whole. By breeding in pre-conceived notions of what a man is supposed to be not only disrupts the outlook on what a growing woman could be looking for, but ultimately could disrupt the basic balance of civilization.

So moms, go ahead and get those dolls for your daughters, but don’t train them to believe that that’s what they’re supposed to be looking for in a man.

I don’t think that’s the issue with this story. It’s either a huge typo, or someone was looking to get fired hehe.

Story.