Man Bashing, Yet Again.

I saw an interview on Fox News with Georgia Witkin, PHD, who wrote a book called, “It’s Not You, It’s Him!”

A couple of points she made in the interview:

• Women have a big checklist of things they want in a man.  “Men have basically two things.  They want a woman who likes them and want her to initiate sex and they are happy.”
• Women have much deeper feelings, while men don’t have as deep feelings, but fall in love quicker and out of love slower.  “First in, last out,” as she put it.
• “Surprisingly,” men are more romantic than women.  Women like to read about romance, watch chickflicks and such but don’t really (want to?) live it.  Men want the romance and want to make the women happy.

Supposedly, she has the “studies” to back up her claims. So, men are once again getting a bad rap from the misandrist, sexist females who call themselves scientists.  Even if it’s partly complimentary to men — as in the third example above — the compliment is a backhanded one.  If a man were to say, “Surprisingly, women are smart,” he’d be excoriated.   If a man were to make derogatory claims about women like she does about men, she would be furious and calling him a misogynist. She would be berating him and making him out to be a horrible human being. But, misandry is just fine anywhere at anytime. Why is it always acceptable in society to make the man out to be defective, less than women, and stupid?

I tell people that my days are subject to changing at any given moment.  I normally will make appointments at least a few days ahead, but sometimes they are scheduled as far out as a couple of weeks.  I had two appointments scheduled that were to have me driving about 40 miles one way in the morning and then about 30 the other way in the afternoon. Early this morning, my appointment for the afternoon was cancelled.  So, I did the morning appointment, then came home thinking I could get some work which I brought home done.

I soon was paged and headed out to solve a problem for a client.  I was almost at the client’s location when I came upon a 3 vehicle accident which had just occurred.  I pulled over and stopped to see if I could help.  A young man was in a car which was hit by two pickup trucks.  It appeared as though one had entered the road (4 lane) across traffic and hit the car in the side, which resulted in the the second pick which was following the car to then hit the car in the rear.  The driver of the car was a young man who appeared to be about 17 or so.  He was bleeding from the head and the car was severely damaged.  Even before I was out of the car, I was dialing 911 to get help.  I reported to the 911 dispatcher what the scene looked like and then checked to see if I could help him. There was another man standing by the car.  As I was approacing the car, I said, “Help is on the way,” to which the man stated, “He wants to call his parents.”  He had a phone in his hand and appeared to have also called 911, but the dispatcher didn’t seem aware of the call.  I talked to the boy and he was able to talk, but with difficulty.  He was having trouble breathing and was in obvious pain.  I asked his name, his phone number, and his parents names; then dialed.  I spoke with his father and informed him of the situation; then turned my attention back to the boy.  About that time, a woman arrived and asked if she could help because she was an EMT.  She leaned in the car to help him and held his head still to keep him from hurting himself further.  About that time, another woman arrived and offered help because she was an RN.  Then, the police and rescue started arriving.  So, with the proper help there, I went about the rest of my day.

Watched  tonight.

OK…. it’s SCAREY!  It has a couple of niggling little things in it that detract from it being a great, classic horror movie.  But, it’s pretty good.  I like that it had a little bit of a feel of the horror movies of yore…… before the slasher film epidemic.  Even with the new special effect scare techniques, it feels like a real horror movie.

And….. it has always been claimed that it’s based on a true story. Scarey!