On An Atypical and Uncharacteristic Personal Note

Do boys have to go through a class in how to dick girls over? Because by the time they're twenty five, each and every one of them has learned the art of "blow off" or better yet, "do me then I'll blow you off." Is it so much to ask for men to have emotions? I know they exist in you... I see how you look affectionately at your best guy friend. I know how important it is to you that your grandpa or even your mother is proud of something you've done. Then, suddenly, sure as Jekyl and Hyde, you act like spending time with the girl you've feigned interest in and made believe you actually care about (we're talking friends or girlfriends here) is a terrible way to interrupt your extremely important task of sitting around, breathing oxygen. The time of day off your watch would be too long a sentence or too heavy a phone call to make.

So again, I ask: is there a class for this? DON'T YOU EVER NEED A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER? I'll volunteer. I work well with men. They're the majority of my close friends. I've heard "deck talk" (i.e. guy gossip) that would make a nice little girl's skin crawl. That's how I know they're all slimeballs (a few choice exceptions are excluded but will not be enumerated here; trust me, if you think you're on the list of exceptions, you're probably not). I've heard how you talk about a girl who is heavy set around the middle... or the girl who made out with (or other activities) with every guy in your circle of friends. You didn't seem to mind her when she was with you... Which is it? Do you want us to be the dream girl that stars in porn films, has a great body and talks dirty? Perhaps it's either that or the boring girl you take home to your family and who you trust to raise your children... but who'll you'll most likely cheat on before hitting your fifth wedding anniversary? Or do you want us to (heaven forbid) be ourselves -- whoever it is that strikes us at that moment... and then you can complain about how we're all crazy, schitzophrenic bitches.

Anyone care to offer insight?

Welcome a New Voice

I would like to humbly welcome the long awaited addition of LacyK to the blogging world -- finally I have a liberal voice to sing with me in my choir.

Intel Cit and GrannySmith, beware...
She has already *ahem* commented on a few of our discussions below...

Borrowed Emotional Banter

I'll be the first to tell you that it is a sad day when women and men have created an aura of "not needing" each other. I simply mean that even if in a literal, emotionless sense we don't need someone of the opposite sex in our lives, that because of the emotional reasons (eloquently enumerated by grannysmith on Intel Cit's blog) it is the joy of life to find companionship.

I have to say (it's actually required by my liberal standings) that I don't think it's that a same sex relationship is any less satiating if it's what you want/need. Homosexual couples may have a higher stress rate because of a confounding external factor: like the stress of being gay in a straight man's world, or perhaps the stereotype that gay men are as emotionally stress-prone as the most catty of women.

I think that it's all about seeking companionship. Be it sexual, emotional, supportive, whatever we need at that time. It is one of the driving reasons of human existence. We seek it because we are made to seek it. Humans yearn for human relationships -- we may be burned a hundred times and still seek love. Because without it and without the hope of it... what would be true happiness and sorrow?

Mixing Prayer With Poultry and Meat Sales

Tyson Foods Launches Faith-Friendly Marketing Effort

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Tyson Foods has launched a faith-based marketing initiative that is offering consumers free downloadable prayer booklets at the same time the company has placed 128 part-time chaplains in 78 food-processing plants across the country.

So my question is, how many people are they pissing off and turning away? Is it really kosher (note the use of the word) to focus a family-oriented company towards religion and specifically one kind of religion?? Does it feel like a violation of church and state, er... commerce? Or am I the only one a little taken aback by this...