Sigh. I’m going to get into a lot of trouble for this. I know some women already have their left hooks ready and feminists are flexing their muscles. I’ll start by saying all this is my opinion and I always stand to be corrected and ladies, we love you ;)
Tag: Africa
Trust
Trust lived in the dark and tempting ages where a man was lured to gnaw at the forbidden fruit, which the slithering snake crawled around it as if it were a skeeming ribbon. See trust lived for years and years. He actually hogged our lives’ Oxygen for many eons. Many fell for the robes that...
Lust Is Deliberate And Not Accidental …
Lust is historically accepted as the insatiable craving for sexual pleasures [hell of a beast!] one we best associate with serpentine imagery; a kind of sensual serpent with a knowing secret smile, eternally persistent. Lust is deliberate never accidental. If we accept this idea of Lust as represented as a serpent then it would follow...
The Strong Black Woman Burden …
It has been calling me; it has been calling out to me In many different ways it has been calling me It called and called out when Feminsta Jones wrote: “I want black women to be valued for more than our ability to suffer, endure pain and love black men without reciprocation” It called. And...
My Vagina Is Tighter Than Your Vagina …
I am a feminist I am a feminist because I believe in gender equality My long and short of it, this is I am clear it is clear *** Removed from the cluttering chatters and detractive dialogue about bitterness, men-hating, lipstick, sluts, ice-queens, whores, ladies, petticoats, bitter, better I am clear It is clear I...
An Open Letter To My Nephew … And Other Young Men Who Come Into My Care
Dear Nephew, I call you that because you are truly cherished (in a way that I doubt I could explain to you sufficiently in words). I am not particularly fond of you because your father abandoned your fetal-self, nor because we share the same DNA here I could wax lyrical of how I helped raised...
Man up! Breakdown of Masculine & Feminine
So telling a male to man up is at most useless. The only way you can get him to man up is to stop mothering him/being the man. If he WANTS to be a MAN he will step up to the Masculine role
Why Men Don’t Talk About Rape …
These were the last few lines of the rape campaign ad that featured Charlize Theron some years ago. Today, rape is back in the news and many women are lamenting these same sentiments. Questions are being asked, where are men in all of this rape pandemonium? Why are they not saying anything? Why aren’t they...
You Are The World That You Have Created …
When you’re a child, you’re in the guidance of your parents and they make all your decisions for you – except pooping on yourself. The older you get, your parents try to instill some sort of responsibility into your life by giving you the power to make decisions and dealing with the consequences thereafter. Then,...
Men Who Kill and Women Who Stay …
I am around 10yrs old and I am at a family function. There are relatives everywhere in the yard and me and my younger cousins are sitting on a bench damn near licking our plates clean. My older cousin, ous Pankie, walks past, we like her a lot. She laughs at us with our mouths shiny...