International Men's Health Week

Apologies peeps, this will be a long one.
So I said I would write this rant/opinion/article up and that it would probably upset a few people, namely feminists. And before anyone starts to give me shit for it, this is my opinion and my blog and if you want to jump up and down waving your arms, then do it somewhere else, away from me. Quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Also please be aware that I am talking about predominantly straight guys in straight, man and woman relationships. And no I am not a homophobe, how could I be, I am bisexual. I am generalising *sigh*

Now before I start let me just say. I have always said for as long as I can remember, that the day young, heterosexual, white, non religious, single guys start protesting for their rights back, I will be protesting right there with them. I say this because well let's face it they are about the only people who do not have a clause about them. For example, an older guy can't be discriminated against because that is ageist. A coloured man can't be discriminated against because it's racism(and no I do not agree with racism in the least). A female can't be discriminated against because that is sexist. A homosexual man cannot be discriminated against because that is discrimination based on sexuality. A Christian or Muslim or any other religious man can't be discriminated against because its based on religion. What I am saying is there is an anti discrimination clause or policy for pretty much everyone apart from young, white, straight and non religious men. Now, I am not saying that these guys have it tough and nor am I saying that the types of discrimination I mentioned above don't happen. I am not stupid. I know fine well that they happen, hell I have experienced some of them first hand. What I am saying is that the world has gone mad with political correctness.

Ok so onto the original idea of this entry. International Men's Health Week 2011 has just passed us by and while doing research on this event for work, I was appalled and shocked at some of the statistics that I discovered on the website. And yes! I realise that stats can be very easily fudged but a week that is designed to raise awareness of the fact that men, although they may think they are invincible, are just as fragile as women {Here's where the militant feminists start to feel their blood boiling and start to screech that "men are not fragile, women rule but are delicate, oh noes she isn't one of us, she is a big ugly man lover"....my apologies bit of a crazy moment there, but you get my point}. Ok, now as a woman I do completely understand that men and women have different health issues, men of course don't have to go through 5-14 days of mind numbing cramps, blah blah blah. Men, don't need to worry about getting pregnant, yawn. Men don't go through menopause, am I awake yet? Men can't multitask the way a women does, boring and bullshit. A child needs its mother, yes true, but if the mother is a spaced out crack whore junkie who beats the child or who uses the child as leverage to make money, then surely the man, yes those things with penises and a Y chromosome are the better choice?? No, I must be nuts then. It baffles me that the courts throughout the world will still defend the mother even when she is unworthy of raising a dog, let alone a child.  Anyhow, I digress, where was I going?

Oh, that's right, men's health issues. Sure a guy doesn't have to go through yearly pap smears,  but I think what a lot of ladies forget is that come a gentleman's later years he will have to go through regular prostate exams. Now, I implore you ladies, think about how uncomfortable a particularly bad pap smear is or think about how painful a colposcopy is and then imagine that is happening in your rear end? A regular pap smear probably isn't looking so bad now. Then of course there is the period debate, as I said above, boring. Sure us females bleed for a minimum of five days every month and don't die, yes we experience mind numbing cramps that feel like our insides are being ripped apart but do you honestly, deep down think that men don't suffer during this time of month? We ladies go from zero to crazy bitch in the blink of an eye and usually the person who cops it, is....drum roll please....that's right the GUY! Who is the person that runs around getting chocolate or ice cream or hot tea when you demand it, usually the boyfriend and yet he does that for us and we rip his face off because the tea is too hot, or its the wrong flavour of ice cream or he just doesn't get it. Man (ha), I don't blame a guy for running straight to the pub. He is trying to avoid getting torn to shreds.

Next: Pregnancy! Yeah that! First of all let me get this off my chest....I am NOT a freak, because I don't want babies. I have my life, I have my wonderful guy and I have big dreams to travel. I am not interested in having children, this does not mean that those of you who do want children are somehow better than me or more successful or fufilled than me. I am not saying that I am better than those who do want children, in fact I fully support their choice. Why? Because it is exactly that, their choice, their body. My only pet peeve is young girls who do not look after the child that they parade in front of me. I have NO problem with young mums, none whatsoever, in fact power to them but do not tell me I am wrong, or selfish for my choices as a 26 nearly 27 year old woman. And now that the rant is done...Pregnancy! It's like the one argument that every female pulls in the ever lasting battle of the sexes. "Oh but men don't get pregnant, they don't have to carry a child in their womb for nine months and then have to go through labour." No, men don't have to carry a baby inside them for nine months but do any girls ever stop to think that maybe the babies daddy would swap with you in a heart beat, because if the babies daddy is a good guy he doesn't like seeing his woman uncomfortable, or is that, that crazy talk again? Good Guys? Falls over.  And here's a newsflash for all you pregnant women out there...and I was shocked by this too...men actually go through a dramatic hormone change when they find out they are going to be a father. No bullshit, initially a guys fight or flight brain chemical sparks up making the guy panic at the initial stages of pregnancy. Then while the lady is carrying the child, the man's testesterone levels actually drop and he becomes more in tune with his feminine side, wow who'd have thunk it. Then nearing the end of the pregnancy a man's testesterone levels actually sky rocket in preparation for the baby's arrival, he goes into full on survival/protection mode. Science is a wonderful thing. So ladies next time you are giving your guy a hard time while you are pregnant think about how he is actually feeling. Then there is the labour part, so men don't experience that, huh? Who's hand are you crushing when giving birth, who's embrace do you crave afterwards, yeah that's right the guy. Anyway, I think you get my point on the pregnancy thing, now moving on.

Another pet peeve of mine, is women who say that men do not suffer at the hands of domestic abuse. WAKE UP! Domestic abuse happens to both sexes. Dominant women, you know women who are so self assured and confident (which of course is no bad thing) that a humble guy just can't compete. Where a man will more than likely use his fists and feet, a women will use nails, teeth, frying pans, knives. If it's not nailed down a women will fight with it. It is naive to think that no man could ever be beaten by his wife or gf or whatever, it's blindly following the flock. A man is less likely to report abuse to the cops, why? Because the cops will laugh at him and say that his pretty petite little gf could never hurt a fly. Seriously, open your eyes. Men have this image of being macho, strong, invincible protectors. They are meant to be hunter/gatherers and we are trying to take that away from. No wonder men suffer in silence. A man cries, he is a wimp, or a fag, a big girls blouse, you get the gist. And that brings me onto the subject of rape.

Yep, rape. I do not condone rape, so do not for one second think that I do. Here's another one of those newsflashes...Men get raped too. Ok, now pick your jaw up off the floor. Yes a female can rape a male, as most of us know, it's not exactly the most difficult task to get a man erect.  NO means NO! Sound familiar? It should, we created it to get the message across to men that when a girl says no, it means no. Should the same not be true for guys? "Oh, but if a man is erect then he obviously wanted it!" Ok so are you telling me that if a girl gets wet while she is being raped, she is enjoying it? It's the same principal. Sure the guy got hard, but he said no. What gives a woman the right to force a guy into having sex after he has uttered that word? The courts will throw out a male rape case because the guy got an erection, it harks back to that old way of thinking, that men always want sex and that is the only thing they think about. I understand that rape cases in courts are always difficult and I do mean for everyone, even the females. It is a very muggy area of the law, there is a lot he said, she said back and forth. I get that, but how many male rape cases do you hear about in the newspapers compared to the female rape cases. Just think about it a little.

Ok I am going to do this in two entries. I will save here just now and continue on my merry rant in the next entry.