I disrespectfully disagree

[bria]

Women's entire education should be planned in relation to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to win their love and respect, to raise them as children, care for them as adults, counsel and console them, make their lives sweet and pleasant. These are women's duties in all ages and these are what they should be taught from childhood on.-

Comments

[dzuunmod]

I'm glad you're posting again.

[bria]

I'll bet... ;-) You know I'm not talking about you, right? I don't mean all boys, just most of them.

[dzuunmod]

Right. Well, I would've hoped that in the brief encounter(s?) that we've had (I think I met you twice, but I'm not positive...), I wouldn't have left quite such a negative impression on you. :/

And I didn't. So good.

[bria]

Quite the contrary. I think it was twice, but I've got pretty good instincts. All I really need to get a good feel for a person is a couple words and a good look in his or her eyes. Your eyes are deep and lovely, and whatever else happens on the surface, you'll always be connected somehow to your source. I think you see people as people, girls, boys, whoever. You'd have to work pretty hard to lose that.

[xophylia]

I can certainly understand where you're coming from. How long do boys really think that conversations about one's boobs will be interesting? Can they not perhaps fathom that their boobie-talk is not original, and has, in fact, been rather played out?

I also think that most people who say they miss me really miss the sex. Which is rather unfortunate for them, because (like you) I am quite capable of having a perfectly good time without them.

I think I know some of the specifics you're referencing. By the way, if I've ever acted like any of these boys, you have my sincerest apologies - yes, you are pretty and have a lovely body, but your mind is what makes you so beautiful.

So, yes. You are awesome, lots of boys are dumb, and you deserve better than the treatment you've described. Best of luck in finding someone who recognizes that, and gives you the respect you deserve.

[bria]

You are definitely nothing like any of these boys. Goodness gracious. I seem to remember having conversations with you about things other than my boobies. Of course, some may have been about your boobies... but I'm quite sure most of them were not about boobies at all

[chrisss]

Most males do see females as an item to use and some sort of prize. This is unfortunate (not to mention is commonly a one-sided perspective). Problem is its hard for society to undo those stereotypes, and I blame people's inability to deal with change and to unlearn things they were taught as a child. It is hard though. I also see the media exploiting females in a new modernized version of the quoted text. They show 'fixed up' females on TV and papers and movies, guys go crazy about girls that look like that, and some females feel they cant compare/compete to those girls so they 'compromise their values and needs' by settling for less than what they should because they dont look like something that's probably fake.

[bria]

Of course, posting in my journal is preaching to the choir, since anybody, girl or boy, who reads *my* journal is obviously far smarter than average. Ha ha.

I don't mind leaving the people who obsess about the latest fashion in size and clothes to the people who have nothing worth speaking of inside their brains, but I want to tell them all anyway how stupid it is - for the ones who can't or don't want to be like that but are surrounded by people who tell them they should be. I think of all the beauty that's hidden and lost to the world because people don't think it's worth anything. And then there's the issue of all the anger they (girls and boys) store up inside because of all the stupid expectations, which they will probably take out on their kids, because they believe nobody else wants to listen. :-(