I’m walking thru Ralph’s or CVS recently. Their system is playing a song from my youth, and I’m humming along, pushing my cart thru the aisles…now mouthing the lyrics as I push my cart -

And then I stop, stock still
(presciently near the ice cream displays;)
suddenly aware of what I am both singing- and supporting…

“Oh, Johnny get angry, Johnny get mad
Give me the biggest lecture I ever had
I want a brave man, I want a cave man
Johnny, show me that you care, really care for me…”

WHAAAA????

(And do you know, on THAT day, I was hearing “…give me the biggest “corporal punishment” I ever had…”

But still. I wonder what that song said to us all in 1962. Did it express an obsolete sexual mindset…or an eternal TRUTH…or encouragement - young men, be physically persistent in your courtship? (Girls LIKE that;)

I think, all the above.

So we now exist in a culture/society that affirms the intrinsic right of women, in ALL matters sexual.
This was always a TRUTH…but it is now, LAW.

So let me get this straight. Women desire to be competed for, won, dominated. And this behavior will assure them that they are desired. And thereful, desirable. Hmmm.

Two likely outcomes.

1) Your ardor will win your heart’s desire. (She really wanted you.)
2) Your ardor will result in a restraining order…(if you’re lucky;)

I’ve been impatient of late with the newest cultural trend: “It’s hard out here for a White Man.” Nigger, please. But I am beginning to feel you….feel your angst, your dislocation, your “Weltanschauung”.

Hey, the Game changed. Well, not really. Human sexuality will resist all passing trends; we are and will continue to be, evolving animals. But the rules for our board game have been going thru some serious permutations of late. For your daughters, mothers, sisters, you might feel gratitude for the leveling of the playing field. But you may have also noticed that your own personal wiring is now seriously suspect and out of warranty. Good luck to you.

Vie for a woman who finds you desirable…and your outcome is 50-50. But your downside is limited.

Vie for a woman who doesn’t find you desirable…maybe embarrassment, maybe legal tsuris, maybe victimization.

Payback is a mutha…

15 Feb 2010