Myth Buster Hymen
I was thinking about myths on my way to work this morning. It started with this whole War on Terror that is being waged in the Middle East by the American establishment. I was thinking how much like the frog in the pot we all are. How, even though we know what we know about the invasion of Iraq, we still wonder aloud if the Americans will invade Iran.
Of course they will.
Well before 9/11, when the Taliban was making crazy threats, the Americans had their ears cocked towards Afghanistan. Threats? No one makes crazy threats toward The Great Satan. Crazy? We'll show you crazy! Threats? We'll show you threats! We'll bomb the living crap out of your country!
Then 9/11 and, well, what more excuse did they need? Terrorists from Saudi Arabia? Close enough, Afghanistan, you crazy fucker!
Then Iraq with the coyness gone mad over Weapons of Mass Destruction. Because don't forget, even though Iraq didn't have 'em, its crazy leader PRETENDED it did. Saddam Hussein threatened plenty. Like only a madman would. Iraq asked for it. It really did. I remember thinking, "Shut up, you crazy muthafucka! That's the United States of America you're threatening! You even call it "The Great Satan"! Whaddaya think is gonna happen?"
Sho' 'nuff.
And now Iran. Iran with the crazy leader threatening the United States of America. And Israel, no less. With nuclear weapons.
WITHOUT ACTUALLY HAVING NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!!!!
Okay. How crazy does a leader have to be to make nuclear threats when he doesn't actually have nuclear weapons?
Tres crazy. Tres, tres crazy.
Fortunately, the population of Iran is so disproportionately young and unthrilled with living in a Theocracy that it might welcome the invading Americans. Although, hopefully, they don't know what happened during the Gulf War when the Iraqi Army largely defected to the invading American side in hopes of... what? What were they hoping for, do you think? 'Cause whatever it was, it couldn't have been the War on Terror.
Anyway, I'm not a REAL foreign affairs expert/military historian - but I know a pattern when I see one.
The Americans will invade Iran.
SooeySays.
But back to myths. (My walk to work is 40 minutes. I devote half the walk to one myth, half to another.) The second myth is about men, women and financial independence. I noticed on my forum the other day that there is a lingering bitterness from men about all the drinks they supposedly bought for women over the years because they are men and women are women and that's just the way it is. Or, at least, was.
So I thought back to my own years on the bar scene and I remember paying for my own drinks and often the drinks of my drinking companions. I just assumed it was because I always had a job and they often didn't. Apparently, though, there were lots of men my age buying drinks for women because... well... I don't know why. Certainly they seem to be bitter about the lost revenue. You rarely hear a man speaking warmly of all the money he's spent on women over the years - particularly if it was of the drink buying variety.
So why do they do it? Women at the age when they are out looking for love all have jobs. They are financially independent. They don't need men to buy them drinks. So why does this silly myth persist? I mean, it's not as if men aren't sucky about doing it - because they are. They gripe about it for years afterward. And women who brag about having men buy them drinks sound... well... like assholes.
Who doesn't realize when they are in grade school that time is everything. It isn't money, like those blowhard business thingies say. It's everything. Money is nothing compared to time. Absolute dust in the wind. So why would women with money spend time - their time, their one and only time - with men just to have them pay for their drinks when they have the money to pay for their own drinks?
I'm just asking. Because either I missed a key component of womanhood, or men are full of shit and propagating myths about women that don't hold any water in my personal life experience.
When is it not better to exercise financial independence?
Never.
So don't stay at home with those babies, either, mother. Remember the cry of the drinks buyer in years gone by. He's probably your husband.
Like I said in a previous entry, I should probably get an iPod for the walk to work.
