now... where did I put that soap box...

I must say, some things will never make sense to me. I was sent a joke email by a friend. This friend will send me joke a few times a week. I read most of them, at least I try to read most of them.

Sometimes, I am caught in a situation where I think I know what to do, but then I feel hypocritical because it involves being politically correct. I am not one to tell you I am offended by your speech, or manner. I have strange interpretation of the first amendment. I think it gives me the right to be offended. I kind of like being offended as it means we are still trying to push the limits. We all have the right to be offended, but that does not mean we should run around doing it. Just because it CAN be done, does not mean it should.

So, by tradition, if the subject line does not make me smile then I just deletes it as the subject matter will no doubt not make me laugh. This one read rather strange it was PMS hormone guide. Well I meant to delete it, but opened it instead, maybe it was a Freudian slip… lets just say that it was about what men should and should not say to women who suffer from PMS. I do get the joke the safe line in all the situation presented would be : “Here have a glass of wine”. I am not offended that my friend sent it, I see where she would find it funny, but really the creator has some serious man hater issues.

I am really starting to worry about society; I see things changing that really needed to stay in place. According to Genesis 3:15:

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed;
he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

This has been taken to mean beating your wife is ok, I do not support that thought path in anyway. That is not what this means, it means, in my opinion anyway, we will be fighting for the rest of time. We will not have the relationship we had before this was placed upon us. We will be unable to truly get along like we should. With that being said, why are women changing and acting more like men?

Violent crime committed by females is on the rise, has been since 1989 as seen here:

http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/femof.pdf

Female inmate population has increased by almost 100% since 1990 as seen here:

http://www.wvdoc.com/wvdoc/Portals/0/documents/female.pdf

As far as who is getting killed well lets take a look:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/gender.htm

Both male and female offenders are more likely to target male victims than female victims.
My problem from all this; we, as a society, are failing to keep our rolls clearly defined. Women are our guide posts, our markers; they are supposed to show us the way.

Men should be careful lest they cause women to weep, for God counts their
tears.

The Talmud, a Jewish text

This means women are more spiritually evolved than men are. They understand the world on a level much to deep for a man to fathom, I mean truly fathom. Does this mean women are better than men?

No, no, no… a thousand times no. All it means is we are different, men have certain strength, and women balance that out. We are the pointy end of the stick, women are the shaft that guides us to our mark.

This is how I see women, I respect them for they can and often do things that I cannot. But then drivel like that email crosses my path and I am left to feel more like an idiot than anything else.

I know, but it is just one instance, maybe I should not be so sensitive… Well let’s see, when was the last time a man was portrayed as a strong roll model in a family setting? When he was able to intelligently offer up conversation, ideas or even a helping hand with out hitting it with a hammer? If women were portrayed this way I think the screems could be heard from the moon…

In the end it really means nothing, society is meant to fall apart so it can reform and grow again.