...a little clarification:

If you're here, it's most likely because you responded to my blog's title. I just want to take a quick moment, and clarify things...

1) I do not have anything against women. On the contrary! In fact, my wife and two daughters are my favorites!

2) It really IS a woman's world that we live in.

Do you realize that women make the purchasing decisions for more than 80% of everything that gets bought in this country?

Brother that is fact, not fiction...*shakes head sadly*

But, HERE'S THE DEAL:

They don't get to have everything!

Some things are just flat-out sacred to guys like us, and we're gonna have'em, love'em, keep'em, trade'em, up-grade'em, and buy more of 'em, if that's what we want to do!

And Ladies?

Feel free to stick around if you want...throw in your two cents...but make no mistake about this:

You can have the world, as long as you leave Football, Motorcycles, Fast Cars, Big TVs, Kung-Fu Movies, Recliners, Making Money, Frosty Beverages, our Dogs, and our Music, alone.

That stuff belongs to US, and we're not playin'.

You got that, "sweet-thang"?

Oops! Gotta run...my wife is hollerin' for me!

-J

Welcome, brother! Grab yourself a beverage!

I was shopping with my wife the other day (don't start...) and she spent a decidedly long time in a huge thrift-store nearby.

Now, I honestly don't mind the thrift-store...

You can find all kinds of cool stuff in there, sometimes:

Golf Clubs, Tools, Steamer-trunks (one of my favorite things), Antiques, Hub-caps for a `49 Ford...just whatever, if you're there on the right day...

Anyway, I had made my "round" through the store, and had struck out. So, I went with my usual "Plan B", The book section, and it was there that I ran up on a book that just blew me away:

It's called "The Myth of Male Power", by Warren Farrell.

Have any of you guys ever read it? I highly recommend that you do...just don't read it in the dark!

I sat down on a lumpy old couch, and read a few chapters, as I waited on my wife. I was pale by the time she came to find me...

Guys? We have been duped.

We didn't even know it when we were castrated...

Richard Pryor had it almost-dead-on-the-money when he said that "Women are in charge, because they control 50% of the money, and 100% of the [female parts]!"

Well.

Come to find out, they actually control over 80% of the money!

Here are a few excerpts, taken from Warren Farrell's web-site:

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• Patriarchy and male dominance doubled as code words for male disposability. P.16

• Industrialized nations acknowledge the female experiences of powerlessness and conclude that women have the problem, men are the problem. P.27

• Suicide is one of the best indicators of powerlessness. P.31

• As boys experience the pressures of the male role, their suicide rate increases 25,000%. P.31

• MYTH. Women are more likely than men to be victims of violence.

• FACT. Men are twice as likely to be victims of violent crimes and three times more likely to be victims of murder. P.32

• Women control consumer spending by a wide margin in virtually every consumer category. P.33

• Women have the right to raise a child without the father knowing he even has a child, and can sue him for retroactive child support even 10 to 20 years later. P.36

• Men's focus on winning was, historically, a focus on protection--even at the expense of themselves. P.69

• Women asking males to protect them with their strength risks having that strength protect them in one instance and used against them in another. P71

• The three male-only drafts: military; unpaid bodyguard; hazardous jobs P.106

• We call women who are nurses "helping professionals" but not police "saving professionals." P.116

• Wars will not end via female leaders but when men's lives are no more disposable than women's. p.126

• Breast cancer receives over 600% more funding than prostate cancer despite men being almost as likely to die from prostate cancer. P193

• Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard. P. 230

• The "Four Incentives to Protect Women" and get men to call it "glory" to die. P. 361
• addiction to female beauty and sex;
• deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic security in return;

• status, praise, and "bribes" for protecting women, especially if he risks his life or dies doing it; and

• the combination of ritual and religion (e.g., circumcision) that desensitize men to pain, and music and religion to stimulate men to endure pain.

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Guys, even if you're just "not the reading type", I highly recommend that you read this book.

Remember how you felt at the end of that Bruce Willis movie, "The Sixth Sense"?

That's how I felt throughout this entire book!

Jeeeeeesus!

At any rate, after absorbing this shocking bit of knowledge, I made a firm decision:

Women can HAVE this world, and most things in it, but there are certain things, sacred things, Guy Things, that'll just have to be "off-limits".

...and those things, my brothers, are the things that we'll be discussing here.

Thanks for droppin' in, and come back soon!

-J