Gender roles and the modern age

I promised you an update on that really interesting logo I found for last week's blog.  Sorry to disappoint, but as the internet so often does, it totally made me think something cool was happening when really it sucked balls.  Just like that time the internet convinced me to watch "Jennifer's Body" on the premise that Megan Fox made out with that blonde chick from "Mama Mia"

Pictured above:  Garbage

Turns out the whole thing is a wanna be religion that only exists on the interwebs.  According to their web site they are an international organization dedicated to the perpetuation and realization of the Western Hermetic Tradition in this new era. Our work is to bring forth the Light of Our Predecessors, Our Mothers and Fathers in Gnosis, Who have perpetuated Truth through the Traditions of The Rosicrucian Order, The Ancient and Primitive Rite of the Egyptians, The Royal Art of the Alchemists, The Concealed Mysteries of the Kabbalists & The Apostolic Gnosis of Our beloved Lady Sofiazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


Sorry, I put myself to sleep with their bullshit.  Long story short, these jackoffs can't get out of their own heads long enough to put together a cohesive creation story so you don't have to worry about what I found.  Damn.  I thought I was on the brink of finding a group who is privy to some divine truth, like the creators of "The Simpsons" and instead all I got was some self-fellating bullshit like the creators of "The Matrix".  But as usual, I kid.  The Matrix is fun if you get rid of the religious overtones and focus on the violence. 

This was #1 for "Matrix Violence", looks more like "Matrix Ballet"

So, those of you who have been reading me since the beginning (all 3 of you) know that up front I said that I won't be political and I won't talk about sensitive issues.  You also know I said I don't review my writings or look backward, so i might be wrong about that first thing.  

Remember? Safety dance.

I mention that so as to point out the fact that this isn't meant to be controversial, especially since it's not 1920 and women have had the right to vote for a few years now.  

I was reading an unbelievably interesting article on ESPN by a startlingly smart man named Gregg Easterbrook who writes a weekly feature during football season called Tuesday Morning Quarterback.  Check it out, it's the best football analysis you've ever read.  During the offseason he addressed the state of Title IX  in the NCAA.  What stuck out to me was the article he linked from Hanna Rosin in The Atlantic about how women are starting to dominate the world.  

According to Google images, you've got a ways to go, Ladies

This stuck out to me for a couple reasons.  First of all my sister just had a baby girl, so this is pertinent to her future, and second because I am a man who is surprisingly comfortable being pushed to the brink of extinction.

Like this, only way less badass

I don't mean to over state it, but let's face facts.  Testosterone levels have been dropping for decades, the Y chromosome is growing a tail and slowly becoming an X, female birthrates are up worldwide, and perhaps most importantly, we fucked things up so bad, even China is ready to let women run things for a while just to see how they do.

According to the article I linked above, for the first time people are actually trying to have girls instead of hoping for boys.  Somehow this makes sense to me, especially in America.  Women are the ones who give birth, they can make damn near equal livings now, they are allowed to wear pants, they're allowed to vote, and perhaps most importantly, they're allowed to drive.  

Once again, sorry ladies but Google hates you.

In all seriousness, women are getting closer and closer to not only being the majority (which they already are in terms of population) but to holding all the power politically.  Since we are less and less a society run on the sweat of men's backs and more a society based on intelligence and cooperation this makes way to much damn sense to ignore.  We aren't hunter/gatherers anymore, women can do everything men can do from an intellectual standpoint.  I feel like I'm being redundant, but how did people not see this coming?  I think it's sticking out to me more because in the grand scheme of things, this has happened with a retarded amount of speed.  It was less than 100 years ago that if a woman talked out of turn society thought nothing of a man giving her five across the eyes.

Maxwell house!?!?!?

Now, we have websites dedicated to male victims of spousal abuse.  This might be a bad example, but the point I'm trying to make is that the glass ceiling is no longer in place.  I am confident that not only does my niece have the opportunity grow up to be whatever she wants, she's more likely to get it than the boys that will be in her class.  

Of course, the downside of all this is that the human species will go extinct if things keep going this way.  at least until we get behind cloning.

AAHHHH!! The Matrix was right!