nourishing obscurity

Wiki:

Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet block.

In many regions, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother’s Day and St Valentine’s Day.

In other regions, however, the original political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.

Far be it for us to celebrate anything smacking of destructive feminism or socialism but still …  let’s remember the oppressed women of the world, as in the photo above.   For men, it’s a difficult thing to know how to react to women in general since their cause was long ago hijacked and turned into a political football by western governments and PC organizations.  The result, of course, was to get most men’s backs up and this has created two camps, so to speak.  Anti-men jokes abound on the web and anti-women jokes as well.  Pornography is rampant at all ages, the vast majority young female.

Respect and affection

This blog believes that individual women should be accorded respect and affection as a default position and to me, the sign of a man is that he can forgive a woman’s foibles and still love her and take care of her whatever she actually does or says against men.  If she does none of those things, then that’s a bonus.

This blog further pines for the days when women acted as women and even as ladies, where a man could show gallantry and chivalry without the slightest hint of demeaning or patronizing her and where she was his primary focus and object of affection.  A world without women would be horrendous but a world without women being feminine is even worse.

Change through individuals only

No amount of government legislation is going to improve women’s lot at grassroots, street level, as has been shown – it has to come from inside the individuals in their relations with one another. A good start would be for every man on the planet to be able to count a particular woman as his best friend – then we might get somewhere.

Small note

YHC is not feeling 100% today so this might well be the one and only post today.  See how things go.

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