Why can’t men be more like Women?

These last few days have been a revelation to me….. and to others. The troll that gave me such a time on this blog is gone, still muttering in spam ether, as impotent now as he probably was in real life.

I am wondering at a ‘man’ who approaches a woman with such foul language and immediately marginalizes himself in the process.

What is the objective? It can not be denied he looks like a woman hater.

Isn’t this counterproductive? At least to a man who calls himself the Latin for “manly man”??

What ever happened to civility? Whatever happened to ‘manly’ values?

Well, the troll’s behavior has set off some backstage discussion on the behavior of men in general amongst girlfriends and men we know.

We have been comparing notes: We also see some of the Gorean men we have either known in some fashion, either up close or on the internet, also suffer from boorish behavior. Certainly not as bad as this troll, but pretty bad.

There seems to be self proclaimed Gorean men who relegate women to the back of the bus: it’s this second class citizenship they trumpet that rankles intelligent women. Of course, with the Goreans, there is little wiggle room if you are ‘female’. Either a slave or a Free Woman, but there isn’t much choice.

I was reading the Gorean Public Boards a couple of weeks ago, just seeing if the general tone towards women had reformed, let up or changed any. Sad to say it hadn’t. One poster had his nuts in a knot about women voting, another said something nasty about women discussing politics. The last thing he wanted to hear was a ‘bunch of females talking politics.’

There was more, but it was enough. My eyes were crossing and I was getting antsy. Perhaps these men have these issues….or opinions ….because they are insecure? Perhaps they really can’t see women as we really are, full of intelligence, sense and abilities because they are fearful of exposing their own failings?

Not all of them are of this mold. I’ve actually talked to a few who have better sense, manners, grasp of reality and themselves, and realize that it is self-defeating, just plain stupid… to relegate women to such ridiculous standards and practice. But there seems to be some real hangups with many men…and some of the offenders are Gorean.

Quel dommage.

Well, this got a number of us to thinking….Misogynists come in all stripes, and this troll of a few nights before was rabid, but belittling women today seems to be some ‘boy sports’.

And men who refuse to see women in all their potential…are just …well,

boys.

Lady Nyo
THE SOPRANO

She walked slowly to center stage, the hall empty, a few stage lights on. Rehearsing the Strauss, she struggled until the music became second nature. Glancing into the darkness, she raised her eyes upwards, tears falling in streams to her breast. He left, calling her overly dramatic, insecure. Right he was, the music did unbalance her. She was grasping at straws, her nerves raw. The Strauss tormented, rattled her apart. All that beauty and death. Transcendent.

She remembered his lips on her breast bending her backward over the bed, moving into her sex, arousing her to a passion only the music matched. Climaxes, lyrically linked together, coached out by the maestro, his tongue a fleshy baton conducting the rhythm. She missed his strong, elegant hands.

Now he was gone, choosing *this* week to leave, wishing her ‘luck’. Distressed, she floated in doubt. Backstage a French horn softly played a passage of the Strauss.

She raised her head and squared her shoulders. Fuck him. She *was* the Soprano.

She was in control of her life now, center stage. Double fuck him.

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He sat in the dark, his eyes glittering like a garden snake, his lips pressed tightly together. He was still the maestro, he was still in control. He would make her remember.

Jane Kohut-Bartels
Copyrighted, 2008

Tags: Gorean men, Misogyny, trolls