The Lies We Told Our Daughters

Yet another in a long list of female friends has asked me way men can’t commit. So I am gonna lay this out one good time, so if I am ever asked again I can kindly refer the young lady to anygivensomeday.blogspot.com.

 

In short, the answer to the question is simple. From birth men are thought to hunt. We are told the world and everything in it is yours to conquer including women. My son, you have been craved in the image of you father and of his father and so on and so forth to God. We (men) all believe we are reflections of God himself.

 

When a man or boy comes home, to his family the first question after, “How have you been?” is “How have the girls been treatin you?”. This is asked not only by the men in his life but by the women as well. Mothers and Fathers instill this within there sons. Extended commitment can rarely be given until a man in his heart feels he has conquered as much as he can. Honestly, I believe no man can ever be fully satisfied with himself; he knows there is always more out there.

 

Now, to the lie. Women are told, encouraged and pushed onto this ideal that they must find a partner at all cost. My daughter, you are but a half you must find he who completes you. Don’t let him go. Like him, then love him and by no mean let him go. Commitment has always been in baby girls mind, but why? Simple, mothers are simply reverberating what they have always been told. Fathers, and this is the far more interestingly, know, they know what they have been told and what they told their sons and they know the hunter is out their and it would pain them to see their daughter be but a conquest.

 

I am sorry my girl, for I to shall lie to you.

Baby Gap Shits

I think when I hit 20 I went insane. Infuckingsane. It's all society's fault. I blame society because they low key tell women that their biological clocks are ticking and they need to find and marry an eligible man with high-earning potential to ensure the most glorious life possible. All of my ambitions have always been anti-that sentiment, but somewhere and somehow between late August and now I seem to have bought into this notion and some strange series of events led me to be looking at childrens and maternity clothes on gap.com. The shits are cute don't get me wrong, but damn. That's a slippery slope to fall down and as a friend pointed out to me now I'm just out here pressed..The whole "blaming it on society" thing was a joke though because I, like Governor Palin, believe wholeheartedly in the notion of "personal responsibility".

I have this crazy flaming liberal public policy professor who is quite insightful albeit vulgar..anyways my point is that the overarching theme of the class is that we're supposed to step out of our comfort zones as ideologues and use facts to attempt to solve present day issues of public policy. Take the financial crisis, for example: You have Republicans who have always been advocates of free markets and that the government should keep their hands out of Americans' business yet that attitude (of the Bush Administration) and deregulation are what have us in the mess we're in. Now, despite any and every piece of evidence that points to the contrary, many would like to allow the free market to sort out all of this mess and furthermore haven't an inkling to admit that those concepts have only worstened the crisis. Plus we've got Sarah Palin out here like "Oh boy if we could only just get all the corrupt, greedy mfs on Wall Street out everything would be a-ok. You betcha!" Fool.

I always get to these points where I have to digress and circle back to my original intent so ima do that right about.....now. Basically, I think I let my ideologies get in the way of the facts, and the truth is that I can't do it all. I don't think anyone can without having to make some types of sacrifices either personally or professionally. That doesn't mean that what we do actually decide to do won't be great- it probably will. Blackmon pointed out how fast 8 years goes by by comparing it to the fact that 8 years ago I was in 8th grade and has it seemed like 8 years since then; not really. Sometimes I do with I was back in the day when things were cool, but with age comes new responsibility and new opportunity and whether we like it or not there comes a time when you just gotta grow the f up.

I'm The Juggernaut Bitch!

Yeah Yeah, we got another streetwear boutique in the south loop. I found the name of the shit "jugrnaut" ironic 'cause at one time me and blackmon called our streetwear pieces juggernauts. So check out their mysace: MySpace.com/JugrnautChicago . They got a line of fitted caps that I'd never patronize 'cause they all got the same tired emblem. But um, I big up the entreprenuers bringing shit to the 'Go. They look Dec-o. I might make a visit...Wicked

Two of my favorite shits

So I had my touch on shuffle today and these two tracks came on back to back and I had to but the on repeat for like a half hour. Yo shout out to the old rapcity format.

Fresh Academy Presents The Life Episode One

Fresh Academy Presents The Life - Episode One from Endangered Peace on Vimeo.

I saw this over on the endangered peace blog. Gave me a chuckled. Im lookin forward to episode 2.

Liar Liar Pants on Fire

 

So for the first time in a long time I got caught up in a lie. Nothing big, a no harm no foul type of thing. Instead of riding out the lie to the end I decided to fess up and own the lie.

 

Now, let ask the question, why do we lie and is it justified?

 

Personally, (I say this because I haven’t done the scholarship on the matter) I lie for both necessity and for shits and giggles. Often times I find that a given situation warrents a manipulation of the truth. You know one has to spare feelings from time to time. I am not speaking of telling someone they look nice when they don’t, that just pretentious bullshit. I am speaking of the situation when a simply lie can be the difference between crushing someone puny world and keep them floating. Other times, a few lies can keep me in good spirits as I watch peoples heads explode.

 

Controlling your life is key to you survival. Lying is one of those tools that we can use to do this. We all seem to operate on an individual basis, thus there crucial tools of manipulation become vital. But is this justified? I’d say only when it serves to your advantage. Is that morally right, no of course not, but one owes it to ones self to operate in his or her best interest right?