Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Pick-Up Artist Site On Mass Shooting: ‘More People Will Die Unless You Give Men Sexual Options’ << The Side Eye is Strong With This One

Last weekend a guy by the name of Elliott Roger decided to take revenge on all of the "hot blonds" who never gave him any play. Because of them, he spent his college years as a lonely 22 year old virgin who never even kissed a girl. They were the cause of all of his suffering, as listed in his manifesto:



To make a long story short, he called all of the girls in the sorority "sluts" because they weren't interested in him even though he was interested. He said he'd pay retribution to them because they would go with the other men and never pay attention to him, considering how much of an "alpha male" and a "true gentleman" he was. He was going to enter the sorority and kill these girls. He killed a total of seven people before he took his own life.


This prompted a popular web site geared towards pick up artists  (or men who spend their time learning how to manipulate women in hopes to have sex) to say that more women will die unless they provide more men with sexual options.  I must tell them all and anyone who aspires to become such a person to GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE AND SIT YOUR ASSES AAAAAALLLLL THE WAY DOWN WITH THAT. I'll tell you why:
  

That dude is gross and so are those who think like him. So according to pick up artists, and folks of this ilk, women are meant to be possessed or owned by men. Seriously?! People like that are narcissistic and have a warped sense of entitlement. Nobody owes them sex. If he can't get it then, maybe it's HIS fault. Instead of killing a bunch of women or hurting them by using whatever means they see fit, maybe they should take a look at themselves and figure out what's wrong with them, and stop blaming other people for their low self-esteem. Katt Williams said it best, "It's called SELF esteem. It's esteem of your mother-fuckin' SELF". This guy had money, and decent looks, but he was a spoiled asshole who couldn't get what he wanted. He had everything given to him and thought he had the magic formula. When it didn't work out, he killed all of the women who were smart enough to not take his shit. That dude is sorry and extra lame for real and that is the real reason why he couldn't get any.



See, some of these guys want to act like pimps and try to spit game at women in hopes they could add another notch to their belt, and when the woman looks at them sideways, they want to get all mad and cuss her out for it. Maybe, just maybe women are people and shouldn't have to worry about having somebody telling them how they want to "do something (to put it lightly)" to them in so many words and at any given time or place. How would they feel if somebody said some of the mess they say to their mothers, aunts, little sisters, cousins, etc?  Something tells me either they wouldn't like it, or they'd turn their heads sideways like it never happened.  That needs to stop, and this behavior needs to be addressed head on. 


That being said, I strongly feel this is why rape gets overlooked. I'm not just speaking about women being raped either. I'm talking about men being raped as well. If a man or boy gets raped by a woman, he has to hide it and treat it as an early conquest. If he doesn't, he risks being ostracized by his friends, and any potential male role model he may come across. If a woman or girl gets raped it's her fault because she wore revealing clothes, or looked a little too hot in the summertime, or she was just there at the time, or she was walking by herself at night, or she was on a date with a guy and since he paid, she is supposed to return the favor by putting out, or she has to return the favor anyway just for going on the date with him in the first place, or because that's what male and female friends will eventually do, or he helped her fix her car, or he did "insert favor here" so she has to "repay him". If she doesn't, she's gay or there's something wrong with her, or she's a bitch, or selfish, or in Elliott Roger's case, she's a slut.


Now help me out y'all, because the last time I checked, a woman would be classified as a slut by a man if she was busy having sex with everybody. Now I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but something tells me  those girls couldn't have been sluts because they were selective enough to not have sex with him in the first place. I better stop here because I already touched on that in the fourth paragraph. 


But anyway, to counter the argument, people also want to say things like "Well, women act like that too." I want to ask them, "Where did this behavior come from? According to you, why do women feel the need to act like that? Who told them to act like that in the first place? Most likely, they would say something along the lines of, "Society taught men that they needed to be like that, and that's what caused women to act like that." or vice versa. Well, guess what? If society taught them that, then at which point did they know it was wrong? Why do they let it continue? Why did they decide they needed to go along to get along? What would have happened if they didn't go along to get along? Was it worth it to them? And, most importantly, "When does it stop?"

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Cartergate: The whole Solange vs Jay- Z Debacle

I know I'm late with writing this. As a matter of fact, so many things have happened since I wrote a blog that I could safely say that everybody went home from the party already and I'm just getting to it.
Anyway, I've had some serious things I had to tend to and some of my own punches to roll with as of late, so I had to give them my undivided attention. Now I'm here, so here goes:

Apparently Jay-Z done messed up. He done messed up so much that his wife's sister had to break her foot off in his a$$. Not only did she do it once, but she did it multiple times as indicated in the full-length video .  People have been saying that it was because Solange was taken off of the Rockafella Record label. They are even saying it was because Jay-Z wanted to go by himself to a Rhianna concert. What's crazy is that everybody is believing this mess. To those who agree with that I have to tell them to GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT MESS!  Here's why:

The last time I checked, Solange created Saint Records in 2013. She was releasing her own stuff through that label as well. Why would she feel the need to cling to Rockafella Records?

Also, why would she be mad about Jay-Z going to a Rhianna concert by himself? Maybe somebody could help me out with that one because it doesn't make any sense to me.

Upon looking closer at this, I think domestic violence may be at play. Here's why:
Many of us have seen Jay-Z and Beyonce in public. Check her mannerisms. As a woman, I can't help but notice, she may exhibit some tendencies toward being abused. Now abuse doesn't always have to be physical, in fact the most appealing kind of abuse to an abuser is the mental kind because there are no scars. As someone who grew up in that kind of environment, I happen to know what it looks like firsthand. All her life she had been groomed by her father to exude a particular image, to build a brand, and that means she had to have been molded since day one. Is it no surprise that she married someone who had the ability to do the same for her?  I mean, Jay-Z is incredibly rich, and he is no stranger to making profitable business decisions. Maybe it's just the hater in me, but I've always thought that Beyonce was something like that for Jay-Z. He gets the beautiful woman, they make a whole bunch of money together, I mean, it's a match made in heaven, and a great deal for both of them, right?

Now before folks get all up in my blog talking that, "Maybe they love each other, and they married out of love because, love makes a good quality marriage" they can GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT!  Several decades ago, marriage was just a transaction, as presented in the last paragraph of one of my previous blogs.  I strongly think Jay-Z's marriage was a great example of the marriage equals financial transaction kind of thinking. In this case, love is more of a contractual agreement, where the wife has to perform such "duties" to her husband. Keep in mind, those duties are subjective, and depending on the person, they could be dehumanizing.

Let's be real. A lot of people think they could lord over their spouses in whatever way they see fit. Sometimes, people believe that it's easy to see as with physical abuse. Some people don't see mental abuse.  In the Carter's case, it appears to be a case of both.  Notice in the full video, Bey was wearing house clothes, meaning, it looks like she was wearing clothes that look like a woman would wear around the house, you know, the kind she would wear strictly for her husband. Jay was wearing a suit, Solange is wearing a dress. Based on the clothes, it appears that maybe Solange popped over for a visit, and they all were hanging out at one point. Something popped off and they went to the elevator to escort Solange from the building. Solange argued with Jay and started attacking him.

And Bey just watches it all go down.

Why would she just watch her husband get beaten up like that?  My guess is that he did something wrong and she was not trying to defend it. Now in my experience, this is an instance where a sibling would take up for the other sibling if they had been in some sort of trouble. This is an instance where people want to act like they don't know about this kind of scenario. They want to discuss blood being thicker than water but, want to distance themselves when it comes to situations being in the limelight. This is why I took the time to shine some light on this situation.  I noticed that Solange tweet indicated what I suspected, but disappeared quick causing people to say it was fake:



Is it just me, or does this tweet indicate there was all kinds of underlying tension and animosity in the Carter relationship? 

Then all of a sudden, there was only one picture of Bey on Solange's instagram.  Afterwards, Jay-Z decided to spend money on Bey's sister. Usually something like that would be done to keep somebody quiet.

But wait, there's more. In the extended video, Jay was attacked multiple times. One of the times, Bey got between her sister and husband, as if she was trying to tell her sister to stop it and back down.

Now, I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, and I don't know their lives like that, but all of those actions look exactly like domestic violence to me. Are there any ladies out there who see what I'm looking at because I can't just sit back and say it isn't. All of their body language indicates something of the sort. I can't imagine Solange getting that worked up about not being on Jay's record label a year after she created her own.  From the looks of it, it seems she has her own money. 

Again, maybe I'm on to something, but that's just me. However, if that's the case I hope Beyonce could get help one day. So many people chose to stay in abusive relationships because that's all they know. It could be a gradual process a person could sink into and once they sink into it, there's no way out.  If I was a praying person, I'd pray for her. Since I'm not, I'll keep her in my thoughts. The same goes to all and any abused women out there, physically and or mentally.