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Mr. Scorpio

Mr. Scorpio's Journal
Mr. Scorpio's Journal
December 24, 2013

Ocean Facts...

December 24, 2013

I want to see this flick...







December 24, 2013

Rest in Power, Yusef Lateef


Yusef Lateef - Eastern Market
December 24, 2013

I have to tell you, that I'm fucking amazed that marriage equality has hit UTAH!

Utah, are you kidding me?

That really puts my state of Michigan to shame. The fucking Republicans passed a law against it.

But I tell you, as goes UTAH, so goes the rest of America… Eventually.

Marriage Equality will be the law of the land during all of our lifetimes, I'm sure about it.

WTG, Utah.

December 24, 2013

I'm a man...

And there's very little that I can say to women about the effect of manliness on their everyday lives. Women experience it from sun up to sun down.

But I can say to some of the guys out there, who are feeling as if their own manliness is being impugned upon by mere women who deign to speak up and say that the effect of manliness on their own lives can be problematic…

Shut the fuck up.

Gawd, I hate that kind of whining.

Especially when it comes from people, whom by the mere fact that they were born a certain way, this bullshit that their privileged status doesn't cause problems.

In case the whiners out there haven't figured this out yet, your privileged status is like the air surrounding everyone. It's everywhere. Yet, that doesn't make it right.

I have absolutely no idea why it's a problem when women reject the practice of strange men who treat them like unclaimed property. Someone explain that shit to me, in English, if you don't mind.

Now, I want to point out a couple of things… Most women like guys and many of them don't mind if men talk to them. But, there is a right way to do that and there's a wrong way.

However, that does not mean that strange men should stare women down, like some hungry wolf stalking a fluffy bunny, or that men should clumsily and openly make rude and loud sexual proposals on the street.

Now, I need to point out the main problem here… Most men are not as skilled in communication as women. A lot of guys are really bad at it. And most women, especially the ones that like guys, are just sick and tired of dealing with bad communicators, especially when they come off as creepy and potentially threatening. But most of all, most women don't feel as if the intrinsically privileged position of men should be enough to compensate for the lack of male communication skills.

The solution to this problem comes in three mind-bogglingly simple steps:

- Men should talk to women as if they're human beings and not unclaimed sexual objects. Get your talk game straight.

- Next resign yourself to the fact that women, for whatever reason they choose, have the absolute right to reject men who make bad, unwanted, awkward and potentially threatening approaches… And there's nothing that the guy can do about it. Or just because women feel like it, those guys lose, simple as that.

- There's a big diff between looking at a woman who just happens to be out in public, and when some guy is ogling them like they're a plate of steak and fries. Figure out that difference, if you're a gawd-damned adult.

Lastly, to all the whiners out there, wake the fuck up and look around you. Someone is trying to explain how the world really is FOR THEM, and that whining is preventing that from getting through. The other part of "shut the fuck up," is "listen, gawd-dammit." Whining is not very sexy at all.

Now, who want's to be a sexy, non-threatening and not-lazily depending on their position of privilege kind of guy?

Anyone?









December 23, 2013

It's a good thing I'm not a beer drinker

Othewise it would be man overboard.

Don't talk to me.

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