Women and Courage

I have often heard the view expressed that women are in constant peril because of their size and lack of physical strength. Men prey on women, they must be protected, it's not safe for a woman etc. True to an extent but let me point out. Men prey on men: We are taught to be aggressive, brutal and ruthless. The whole "manhood " cult so brutalizes men that many of us in fact, turn into ruthless killers who will stop at nothing to prove how tough we are. Believe me when I say, women are not the only victims of this. Male bodies are stacked up like chord wood all around the world; not just women, men will, and are, currently shooting, stabbing, and raping each other as you read this. On a quick side note, let me bring up that fellow who's getting the manicure, or getting his hair highlighted right now. Some one is calling him a "sissy"or compare him to a woman but you better hope he doesn't start listening to you, because, torture him enough, and you will have one more highly intelligent, ruthless and really pissed off killing machine on your hands. Incidentally don't' forget to keep a body bag handy because you may have to kill him to stop him. After all this is about his "manhood".

The point I want to make is that the world is full of violence. Violence against women IS a real problem and must be taken seriously. However, this does not mean that women have to live in fear because of their size and level of strength. After all, women are currently fighting in Iraq, they get into machine gun battles, step on land mines, and kill enemy soldiers. Women also work in law enforcement dealing with the worst scum bags on earth. Still, you have countless women that refuse to get out a jack and lug wrench and change a tire. Where my sister works there are women who complain when she hefts a 5 gallon water bottle over her shoulder and caries it to the office. (She can also palletize 50 pound bags of drilling clay 120 or more bags at a time). So to all the the women that are scared of their own shadow and use their size as an excuse to be a burden on society, doubtlessly costing millions of dollars a year. You live in a society that thinks of you as weak, frail and in need of protection, when you come up against some thug you get sympathy, and any one should. However, I know men who are quite small, around 5'4" and slightly built. They exist in a society that considers them cannon fodder. Some one who must register for the "Selective Service System" so they can go and become a pile of ground meat, guts and shit splattered all over the land scape. Bear in mind that these men are probably smaller than you and they started out just as weak. They just didn't all stay that way. Most went out and got jobs or worked out in the gym. Now; even though nature did not give them bulging muscles, they are stronger. Not as strong as larger men that are not naturally thin and fine boned, but strong enough to deal with the normal demands of life. It's not just women that get made targets, small men do to but you never hear of studies about it or politicians making speeches about violence against small men. These guys just suck it up and go out into the world day after day. It's not like they aren't scared, it's just that no one cares. Their "men" their supposed to be heroic and sacrifice them selves (ad nausium) so they act like little heroes and go meet what ever fate awaits them, often with some misguided woman cowering behind them and always with a critical, brutal and bigoted society looking over their shoulder. So do your selves a BIG favor stand up and act like adults, stop cowering behind some man and looking for "protection" you don't need it, and your whining is foisting some of the most insulting garbage on brave women who stand up and live life every day. Don't you under stand that every time some man tries to carry my sisters five gallon bottle for her that's dehumanizing to her? It's an insult every time some guy tries to hold the door for her as if she were a child and she and countless women will tell you that. Ultimately your cowardice is not only an insult to women , the whole human race should be red in the face and hang it's head. Your not really a coward so drop the act and start behaving like an adult. You'll have to eventually, in world of female soldiers cops and athletes eventually you'll be seen as what you are acting like - laughing stock.