Rodeos & Piggery
The problem with rodeos is the caliber of the commentator - low grade mentality – crude, uncouth, vulgar, demeaning to women. I wonder if all that is necessary.This is the second rodeo I have attended and I can’t say I want to attend another. I was there to provide video services for a friend of a friend. The women appeared to take this humiliation as ‘the norm’ and laughed as haggishly as the men. The clown was the one that gave me the real creeps, though. He barely skirted crude remarks even when talking about the little girl contestants.
I remember my own countrymen and growing up in a ‘man’s world’. Funny how humanity coins these acceptable phrases in order to justify the degradation and repression of the feminine aspect of life – and from early on I began to resent that character flaw of humanity. I determined that I would throughout my life, try and avoid that strata.
For a brief few years I changed course and attempted to try and impregnate that closed off world of where the real monetary power resides. It was so revolting to me and I got nowhere and realized that I never would so I went off on my own.
I found that this ‘piggity’ attitude is prevalent in boardrooms, all banks, all mega-corporations (including the movie and TV industries), the medical boards, definitely the trades and in most homes. Hence, it is logical to conclude that for much of the time I am lonely. It is a situation of adapt or die and so it is that I fly so much alone. I have very little respect for men, bar a small handful, but yet somewhat an understanding of the good stuff that potentially resides within them.
I had hoped that in America it would be a different world entirely and that chauvinism would not exist here. So, on this Sunday I am feeling crumbled and just a bit sad. I had hoped that the rodeo would be somehow more romanicized and gentlemanly John Wayne-ish.
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