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In reply to the discussion: Eve Ensler on the passivity of men [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)I live alone.
Nobody makes love with me.
I have no kids.
And not very many friends of either gender
I have sisters and they know where I am and I support them
my mother knows where I am too, but has not really been a part of my life for about 28 years. Eternally supported? Only if the word 'infinitesimally' is added in the middle.
And who am I supposed to be "standing with"?
How many women are "driven to the point of madness and action"?
And if there is "action" then why is it so often THIS type of action - the action of scolding men, the action of telling men how privileged they are, or how scary they are, or how guilty they are? Am I supposed to be standing beside you now and wagging my finger at other men?
Well, this close to Valentine's Day, what I feel is that I have been rejected by almost all women. I have been told and told and told and told that I am not worthy of their love and affection. That they think they can do better. Usually I am rejected just on sight. They look at the Green Eggs and Ham and decide they won't like it, without even trying it.
And now that they went off and tried to do "better" and they find themselves humiliated and/or abandoned by the men they have chosen, they expect the men they rejected to come rescue them? To stand beside them now? I don't owe them anything. And further, as I look around it seems to me, they don't really need my help anyway, because many of them have done better. They have better jobs and they have spouses and drive nicer cars, while I am still the janitor on a bicycle.