How To Treat Your Wo(Man)
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I have a new Twitter account, and I signed up to follow a user called "GirlDictionary." Whenever I check out my "wall," I see quotes from that user that run along the lines of "you (and they make sure to distinguish the "you" as a girl or woman) deserve the best, and if he isn't giving you the best, he's not worth it," or something like that. Here, here's an example: "Just remember this. If you don't want me now, I don't want you later." And: "The worst thing a guy can do is make a girl fall for him with no intentions of catching her."
I'm not sure these quotes really show what I'm going for, but they're pretty close.
See, whenever I search the Internet, I notice all kinds of articles and quotes like the ones above, basically telling guys how to treat girls, and telling girls that if guys don't treat them exactly that way, they should look elsewhere.
Maybe I've noticed this a lot more because I am a girl and I (almost, kind of, sort of) look for that kind of thing. You know, that guy didn't talk to me, so hey! here's something saying there's somebody out there who will talk to me, whether I really believe it or not. It's kind of a boost. Anyway, what I haven't noticed as often are articles all about sharing with girls and women how to treat boys and men.
Is that unfeminist of me? I don't really care; the feminist movement, while having some nice points, is kind of extreme. I get wanting to be able to do things for ourselves, but if we don't watch it, we'll never have a break from being independent. And it is nice to be dependent sometimes. Maybe not dependent, but to be able to rely on others for things. For example, killing and/or getting rid of spiders. I will probably never be able to do that by myself. It'd be nice to be able to rely on someone to do that for me. That and taking out the trash and mowing the lawn, etc. Again, independence? Awesome! We just shouldn't get carried away with it.
Or maybe I'm missing the entire point of feminism.
I was on MSN the other day, scrolling through that marquee of news on the homepage, when I found this article relaying the story of a man who tries to be a better husband. I thought it was pretty interesting. The guy saw that his wife wasn't extremely happy with something and worked to fix it. And it worked.
But I didn't see an article or link on MSN with the same topic but reversed. I never saw something written by a woman trying to be a better wife. Do I have the wrong homepage? Does Yahoo! do it better? Has anyone else read something recently admonishing women to treat their men better, and advising men to find someone better if they don't? I'd be really interested to know.
So here's your video:
Well, maybe that's why I don't hear it more often. It sounds really horrible. Dude, you expect me to smile all the time? That's physically impossible. To get the sound out of your ears, I'll let you have another one; one that I hope makes you feel a little bit better.
I have a new Twitter account, and I signed up to follow a user called "GirlDictionary." Whenever I check out my "wall," I see quotes from that user that run along the lines of "you (and they make sure to distinguish the "you" as a girl or woman) deserve the best, and if he isn't giving you the best, he's not worth it," or something like that. Here, here's an example: "Just remember this. If you don't want me now, I don't want you later." And: "The worst thing a guy can do is make a girl fall for him with no intentions of catching her."
I'm not sure these quotes really show what I'm going for, but they're pretty close.
See, whenever I search the Internet, I notice all kinds of articles and quotes like the ones above, basically telling guys how to treat girls, and telling girls that if guys don't treat them exactly that way, they should look elsewhere.
Maybe I've noticed this a lot more because I am a girl and I (almost, kind of, sort of) look for that kind of thing. You know, that guy didn't talk to me, so hey! here's something saying there's somebody out there who will talk to me, whether I really believe it or not. It's kind of a boost. Anyway, what I haven't noticed as often are articles all about sharing with girls and women how to treat boys and men.
Is that unfeminist of me? I don't really care; the feminist movement, while having some nice points, is kind of extreme. I get wanting to be able to do things for ourselves, but if we don't watch it, we'll never have a break from being independent. And it is nice to be dependent sometimes. Maybe not dependent, but to be able to rely on others for things. For example, killing and/or getting rid of spiders. I will probably never be able to do that by myself. It'd be nice to be able to rely on someone to do that for me. That and taking out the trash and mowing the lawn, etc. Again, independence? Awesome! We just shouldn't get carried away with it.
Or maybe I'm missing the entire point of feminism.
I was on MSN the other day, scrolling through that marquee of news on the homepage, when I found this article relaying the story of a man who tries to be a better husband. I thought it was pretty interesting. The guy saw that his wife wasn't extremely happy with something and worked to fix it. And it worked.
But I didn't see an article or link on MSN with the same topic but reversed. I never saw something written by a woman trying to be a better wife. Do I have the wrong homepage? Does Yahoo! do it better? Has anyone else read something recently admonishing women to treat their men better, and advising men to find someone better if they don't? I'd be really interested to know.
So here's your video:
Well, maybe that's why I don't hear it more often. It sounds really horrible. Dude, you expect me to smile all the time? That's physically impossible. To get the sound out of your ears, I'll let you have another one; one that I hope makes you feel a little bit better.
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