
Ok people. My post below about Obama was on the more serious side. Now it's time to get back to the fun stuff. First off, I want to thank all of my wonderful friends who give me plenty of fodder to rant and rave about. My friends are fucking crazy. They work hard and party harder. They get beach houses in the summer and start drinking at 10am. They are good people and are the most fun group of people to be around. Most of the time...
I've generally recieved a positive response from people about my blog, from both men and women. I'm truly flattered by it and it gives me a hard on. But then some people have mentioned that "Steve, your blog is degrading to women. We all thought you were such a nice and sweet guy, blah blah blah". While this person is saying this to me, I'm thinking "man I have got to take a huge shit, I wonder if the bathroom has one of those attendants in it, man I hate that". I eventually begin paying attention again, and casually asked "Seriously? Well, have you even read it?" The response I get "Well, um, no not really, but people have told me it was". Are you fucking kidding me? My blog was never degrading to women, but it might begin to right at this moment. Have you guys ever heard of Tucker Max? Google him and read his blog. Now that guy is "degrading" towards women. But he's also fucking hilarious. In fact, he has become somewhat famous and has a few best-selling books precisely because he is a genuine asshole, and it's great stuff. I mean, he hooked up with a fat chick then made her leave through his window because he didn't want his roommates to see her. That shit is golden. And I took notes on it. But it's not really degrading. It's truth. It's probably geared towards a more male audience, but that doesn't mean women don't have their version of it. You could make the same argument about Sex in the City. For every guy that goes and hooks up with random girl at the bar and boasts to his buddies about it (or tries to sneak her out when no one is looking) and "degrades" women, there's a woman behind it. Sex in the City is basically the female version of the story. But I don't think it degrades men or women. In fact I'm willing to bet women's conversations are just as bad as men's when it comes to stuff like that, but if a woman were to start a blog like Tucker Maxes, then she would be labled a whore or slut. I think that's the degrading part. The double standard of it all.
I think rap music videos are degrading towards women. But I like to watch them. Alone. In the dark. It's better than shows that are degrading to society in general, like American Idol or Are You Smarter than a Fifth grader. It seems that anything that people say is degrading towards women involves sex. I like sex, a lot, so I like a lot of stuff that is degrading towards women I guess. I mean, I was in 7th grade, sitting on the bus, listening to the Snoop Dog album on my Walkman going "When I met you last night baybaaaay, before you op-ened up yo' gaaap. I had respect for you laydaaay, but now I take it all baaack". Should I blame Snoop for this? Or maybe we should blame black people! Because, you know, us white people have music like "She's Only 17" by Kings of Leon, or "Rape Me" by Nirvana. No people. It's our Puritan, protestant past that we can blame for demonizing anything sexual between men and women, and calling it degrading.
You know what's really degrading? Covering women from head to toe in a piece of cloth to take away her identity. Or not letting a woman be educated simply because she is a woman. Or forcing her to marry some 45 year old fat dude when she is 13. Or female castration. Or working for less wages than men. Or beating the shit out of a woman. Or stoning her because she was raped. Or rape. Or forced prostitution. These are the things that are truly degarding to women and if people focused on that and get off their moral high horse, the world would be better for it.
Now if you excuse me, there are reruns from back in 1995 of "MTV Dance" on right now, and it's the Spring break edition. Turning off the lights, closing the blinds....awww yeah.