Does “she can cook” lead to wifey?
After having a short conversation via text with my friend Brittany I have decided that women who can’t cook will be given the same consideration to be my girlfriend as the girl who can. I think in this day and age, the conservative roles of a typical American household are somewhat skewed. It has traditionally been assumed that a man brings home the bacon and the woman cooks that bacon. I guess I’m just rebelling against that. Brittany, one of my friends who can’t cook said that she would if she needed to i.e. when the kids are around. That’s fine, but what aspect of this relates to the man? Not too much. The kids will be fine, but how much pleasure does the man get from coming in from work and having his food on the table? Maybe it’s me. Plenty of women that I know who have fit into this role become bored and often times angry about their position once the pleasure, if there was any, is gone and things just become expected. Often times, it affects other aspects of their relationship as well. Conservatism, the constant enemy of rebellion.
What does a woman who can cook really tell us men? Does it say stability? No. How about she cares about pleasing her man? Possibly, but wouldn’t it come to a point of bored repetition. We all are well educated people and we know how that role sits within us. I’ve heard my male friends complain on and on about how it’s hard to find a woman who is on the same level with them intellectually, professionally, physically but if the roles were switched, could us men hold our own. I’ve seen men who barely know how to scramble eggs so where does that leave them? Looking for a woman who fits in a role. I’ve been in situations where I’ve asked a young lady to cook for me as an “audition” to showcase her culinary talent and sometimes it has ended up good and others horrible. That skill or lack thereof doesn’t become or even sway my opinion about how I feel about that person. Maybe I can make this argument because I can cook my ass off but I just feel like knowing how to use the pots and pans isn’t that important to me at least in the phase of courting a significant other. In fact, looking back, I actually liked more girls that couldn’t cook than those who could. Shouldn’t we be happy when anyone cooks for us anyway?
It’s funny how the most educated, most thought provoking individuals of our lifetime are sometimes unable to experience the world changing love that they are accustomed to seeing
The Gym
I recently joined a new gym in the hopes of becoming The World’s Strongest Man after belonging to a smaller one for a few months. I moved further away therefore justifying me joining L.A. Fitness off Camp Creek. Now this gym is way bigger, has way more equipment, and as a downside, way more people. Its funny when I walk into this gym because it kind of reminds me of jail. I’m not really intimidated by the guys who are all jacked up but it does bother me when they come and do 1 or 2 reps and are done with the exercise. I swear, those guys must be on steroids. Also, I’m no fitness expert, but I have read enough to know a good technique from a bad one. I look around while people lift weights and I swear the way they’re moving is going to hurt them. Then they get up and have that “it burns so deep” face. Another plus of this gym is the massive amounts of women working out there. There’s nothing wrong with a good sight to use for motivation while pushing out that last rep.
Too Many Feelings
I’m probably the 1247081740871 blogger to write a post about Barack Obama being chosen the 44th President of the United States, but you know what? So what. It should be expected from me that I would write something about it. There are a million things running through my head concerning Barack. Well, maybe not a million, more like 10-20.
1. A BLACK PRESIDENT. Sure I went to Morehouse College and I was engulfed in the struggle of the African-American race. There were always debates on whether my generation is connected with the Civil Rights generation. We argued about whether every single cause, triumph or struggle in today’s time should be linked towards that particular movement or the plight of the African-American in the United States in general. I eventually became jaded from being immersed in an environment of “causes”. Maybe, being in a college environment where students will make a big movement for nothing, I took the lessons about our struggle for granted. However, after continuously seeing black leader after black leader that I respect talk about the struggle once again, I started to reminisce about particular experiences where I empathized with African-Americans (I mean I am one, too)that put me where I am today. I realized that the scope of his achievement is huge for the African-American race. I mostly think about MLK’s famous speech. If you don’t know what I’m talking about please go back under the rock. This is his dream realized.
2. GREAT CAMPAIGN – It was a formula for success. Obama looked at the current state of America and used simple logic for his advantage. He knew the GOP wasn’t favorable amongst struggling Americans. He knew that people wanted a person who would inspire change with complex solutions described in Layman’s terms. I could describe and talk about all of Obama’s platform points based on the way he laid it out for average people. David Plouffe(campaign manager) is a campaign genius. He constructed a campaign based around Barack’s vision and used simple things such as e-mails to keep people interested in his candidate. Obama’s speechwriter is a 20-something year old!! He also chose Biden who really to me, should be running for President. He has just as much experience in the Senate as John McCain but didn’t brag about his history as he did. He ran a campaign that didn’t use slander in any way shape or form. No American wanted to see that, even though his opponents used it against him.
3. The Future – The night I crossed into my fraternity my prophyte said “It’s harder to be Greek than it is to become one.” I am concerned for the future. When I saw he won, I wasn’t too shocked. It was projected a week in advance. I want him to keep all his promises because they will work. The real challenge starts for Barack now. The campaign doesn’t matter. Sure people will write political campaign strategies based on it but will they write ones about Barack being a great president? I’m interested to see who his cabinet is and the advisors he keeps around him. I like how he put his 4 more years plug in his speech last night.
E-V-I-L
Last week, I volunteered to phone bank (a term used to get voters to sway for a certain candidate, hence the term “bank” on your vote), for Jim Martin who is running for a Senate seat in Georgia. We were calling independent women in Cobb County via the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. I have to say that, liability reasons. Anyway, I called one particular household and this is how the convo went:
“Hello, may I speak to Mary?”
“Umm, she busy right now. May I ask who’s calling?”
“Sure, this is Sean calling from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. We were calling you to make sure that you go out and vote for JIm Martin because he is an advocate for women’s rights and will be an advocate for Georgia families in Washington….”
(Rudely interrupted)
“Jim Martin??!??? Oh no. No one in this house is voting Democrat here. Democrats are EVILLLL EVVIIILLL EVVIIILLL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL E-v-i-l.”
“Sir, I think I know how to spell evil, please don’t insult my intelligence.”
“EVIL EVIL EVIL.”
“So what are Republicans?”
“We are pure as the driven snow.”
“HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. And who told you this?”
“George dubya Bush told me himself. He told me two years ago, yup. He said I was pure as the driven snow for my party.”
“Ok thank you sir, goodbye.”
I hate politics.
