“Because male chicks do not lay eggs, and only those on breeding programmes are required to fertilize the eggs, they are considered redundant to the egg laying industries and are usually killed shortly after being sexed, which occurs after they hatch. Many methods of culling do not use anaesthetics and include cervical dislocation, asphyxiation by carbon dioxide and maceration using a high speed grinder.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling)
If you think we only do this to chicks, think again. Metaphorically speaking this is exactly what we do to the males of the Human species.
Yes, I am a feminist. I suppose its not everyday you hear one of my ilk come out swinging for the men, but its high time I take back that mantle for what its really about, and that is equality between the sexes. And if I am going to do that, its high time someone with no conflict of interest (ie I do not have a penis), sets the record straight.
We women have more power than we realize. Men spend their entire adult lives in essence trying to land a female. Seriously, they get the job so they can get the car, get the clothes, get the means to be able to attract the prettiest mate they can land. Hell in our society its largely expected that a man drops 2 months salary on a blood diamond to prove to his lady love he loves her. Nothing like a intrinsicly worthless rock (diamonds are only so valuable because DeBeers controls 90 percent of diamond mines, and has been known to dump diamonds in the ocean to maintain market scarcity) some poor African child slaved away for to be the symbol of unending love…
I am the mother of 3 beautiful sons. I am also a victim of domestic violence, rape, sexual harrassment, you name it, Ive been through it. And so I have had plenty of experience, and time to reflect on the age old question of, wtf is wrong with men? Well I think I have come to some insightful answers on the subject.
From the day they are born, we chop off a part of their penis as a matter of routine. The practice started with John Harvey Kellogg, yes the guy who invented the cereal, who was a Seventh Day Adventist, and encouraged the practice to curb masturbation. Now before everyone starts screaming and throwing rotten tomatoes at me, Im well aware of Jewish Law and the covenant with God circumcision represents for Jewish Males. But the practice in the U.S. has absolutely nothing to do with a pact with God, it is because of Kellogg’s puritanical efforts. We regularly condemn female circumcision in African countries as barbaric, yet blithely ignore the fact we take a happy cooing chubby baby on the 3rd day of life and chop off his foreskin, in many cases with no anaesthesia. With my sons I left the decisions up to dad, but it was before I knew the exact procedure. All three came back changed. No b.s. I swear they came back angry (I would be too) with painfully swollen and mutilated member.
We act like babies dont remember, but my experience as a mother says otherwise. Especially with my eldest, I swear that stayed with him. Not to mention it takes a while to heal, and unless they are slathered in Vaseline, urination, which babies do quite a lot, must be a hellish experience. From his screams, Id say so. We take our perfect little bundles of maleness, and do that to them. It is a fallacy it is cleaner…even without a foreskin, there are plenty of wrinkles in a flaccid penis to get all sorts of stuff stuck in. Just like the egg industry, this is what we do to boys at the beginning of their lives, in their most tender and vulnerable state. All in the name of religion and quackery.
But it gets worse for boys. Many boys are shamed for being emotional. I did not do this to my sons, rather I held them when they cried. But I have heard many horror stories from my adult male friends about how their tears were treated, everything from being told to man up, to being yelled at for crying to having soup cans lobbed at their heads. Even my own boys, changed when they went to public school. My sweet eldest who wanted to marry mommy and would help the little girls off the slide at preschool, began to hide his emotional side once he entered kindergarten, lest he be made fun of by the other boys, who no doubt were raised in families that were of the man up philosophy. Boys from a very young age are taught that having emotions are a sign of weakness, and a sign of being effeminate. No they are human, and the implications of this practice are of dire import for us ladies, as well as society at large.
Ladies, we’ve all dated our share of assholes. Guys who can look at you in tears and simply not give a fuck about your pain. I have witnessed time and time again, borderline sociopathic behavior comeout of guys when presented with an emotional female. The comments run anywheres from we are pyscho and just being emotional, to the more sinister behaviors I have unfortunately witnessed come out of some of my exes. I say borderline sociopathic, but hold on a minute. Isnt the definition of sociopathy a lack of empathy and emotions? By what we do in terms of shaming little boys for having feelings, we are creating males who by the clinical definition, are sociopaths. Complete and utter disregard for the feelings of others…just like how they all are treated as children. No one cares about their feelings, so they grow up to repeat the same behaviors to their loved ones as adults. Can they even be blamed? Not only are their feelings so deeply suppressed that anger and happiness are the only two acceptable emotions for a man, but they are crippled in essence, unable to sort out their own feeling and completely emotional unavailable to their mates and in some cases children. The vicious cycle repeats…
This inflicted sociopathy has implications for society at large. Many folks have wondered in horror at the behavior displayed by our leaders, whether they be in business or government. The plutocratic greed, the utter disregard for basic human rights (immigration detainment centers anyone?), the willfull disregard and destruction of our natural areas and the overexploitation of the earth’s resources. If you dont feel, or your feelings are so buried you cant connect, those behaviors become completely understandable.
Furthermore, most men are treated like all they are good for is their ability to provide. A man without a job is a pariah, even men in caretaker roles, either as a Mr. Mom or as a caretaker to the elderly are somewhat ridiculed by other men. For the record, we love you guys who are actually in touch with your feminine side, and anyone who has been a caretaker knows its one of the toughest most exhausting jobs out there, and it is very often thankless. There is no glory in it, just a lot of dirty diapers and lack of sleep.
Those that do work traditional “manly” jobs, are worked to death as well. My ex husband used to get up at 4 in the morning everyday, go to a job as an electromechanic, where he was regularly exposed to hazardous chemicals, they did not have proper ventilation, and he would work minimum 10 hours a day. In the wintertime, he would literally never see the sun as his job is a big metal building with no windows, that is either sweltering in the summertime, or barely warm in the winter. And this is what is expected. Heck, theyd try to make him work mandatory saturdays too. He would jack himself up on coffee and cigarettes in the morning, and come home and slam the beers to relax. He became and is to this day, an alcoholic. As many people are here in Wisconsin. And the reason why is the work hard play hard mentality. The beer they can buy with those wages becomes the proverbial carrot on the stick for them, but that carrot eventually consumes them..people regularly die young around here from alcohol related health conditions. Even if you point it out, you are considered a pariah, because no one wants to look at how trapped and used they really are. No one has an answer, no ones knows a way out, and so they willing submit to having their precious life burnt up to make some rich asshole even richer. Welcome to America folks, and you wonder why we are dicks.
Furthermore, not only is alcohol employed as a reward, but I have noticed a mentality that wants all the markers of success, the house, being able to eat meat every meal (which overheats the liver and makes people more jerkish as anger and arrogance are seated in the liver in TCM), and the car, as a compensation for their life burned faster…kind of like, well I dont have any life or freedom, but at least Ive got all this shiny commercialist crap for my trouble. And that fuels the global exploitation as well, its not just men not in touch with their feelings who as a result have become monsters, but also the sense of entitlement, as well as the whole attract a mate thing. And I do blame women for the latter actually. Whores of Bottleblond I call them, who want men to take care of them and shower them with expensive gifts, completely uncaring of the poor little brown babies that make their overpriced clothes in sweatshops, die in diamond mines, and are now sitting in concentration camps all because the U.S. Agricultural system likes cheap slave migrant labor and cannot exist without it. Bitch get off your implanted ass and get a real job. You want to be treated as an equal, then act like one. Work 10 hours a day in shitty work conditions where your treated like an animal, nay, some animals are treated better. The only reason a woman should not work like a man is if she is making babies, as a woman is legitamately weakened by making a baby inside of her and raising a little one.
But wait a minute, arent I succumbing to the toughen up or else mentality that is making men into sociopaths? Technically yes, but I only direct at those women that would sit on their duffs and make their men work. Isnt the truth that none of us should have to work like this? And here we get to the crux of the matter….wage slavery. Those that talk to me no doubt have had to sit through my sermon on the subject, and now I get to rain on your parade, oh valued audience. The best example I can think to illustrate my point for those not familiar with Locke and Hobbes is to bring up the Irish potato famine. Even wonder why the Irish didnt grow something else? Ill tell you why, the English refused them seed. And the reason was to get them into the poorhouses, where they were forced into the then newly forming cancer that is industrialized society. See, the Irish, and the Scots, are notoriously independent freedom loving people. Im a Scot and it burns my arse whenever anyone tries to control me. And my ancestors looked at the option of being forced into squalid conditions to work to exhaustion on machines that regularly would dismember, maim and or kill people, and decided, nah, Ill stay with my little piece of land where I can drink fight and fuck all day and all theyd have to do to make ends meet is sell a sheep at market or something. I frankly agree, and yes I swear so deal with it. When the Blight showed up, those arrogant bastards in Albion saw it as a Godsend, a way to force them into the system, and they were right. Think it only happened to the Scotch-Irish? Think again. Globalization is really just a rebranding of Imperialism, where we took indigenous cultures all over the world, stole their resources, forced them to work for us, and then sold them their own goods back to them at a ridiculous mark up. Think its only in the past? Think again. I think my ex even could agree to that.
But I tell you truthfully we are all guards as much as we are prisoners in this abominable system. We complain about empathy-less leaders, all the while we vote for them, and support them with our slavery earned dollars. In the words of V, “If you want to see the guilty parties, you need only look in the mirror”. Maybe having the car and the clothes really isnt worth it. Cause you cant take it all with you. What you can take however are the emotions, the relationships, things no amount of labor or money could buy, and my ancestors were dead on in resisting the way they did for as long as we did. With suicide and depression rates through the roof, neverending global resource wars, 16% of Americans in poverty by official (no doubt massaged) statistics, to mention a few, this social experiment of wage slavery is a failed one, miserably so. And the average male is definately the primary victim, as are their wives and children left to deal with angry bitter males, emotional cripples.
Motherhood…changing the world, one diaper at a time.
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