Thursday, 27 October 2016

Socially Failing The Boys, Because We Over Prepare the Girls.

Society continues to put the weight of responsibility on the backs of our girls by continually ratifying the irresponsibility of the men in our societies, and giving them no sense of personal accountability.
We continue to let boys be boys, even though we have deliberately set the stage that boys will always be more than liable for their indiscretions despite our personal feelings on the matters.
At some point, we will need to realize, the mentality of always seeking to move the spotlight FROM the boy in question to share it on the girl who he committed the act with, is the entire reason why a significant fraction of the men in society, refuse to act in a manner conducive to themselves and to society in general.
They don't have to, because someone else will always hold the blame, while all they have to do is pay a nominal social fine.

It plays out every day, a man catcalls a woman, she is dressed accordingly, the catcalls turn to straight out harassment, it is her fault, he is responding to her stimulation of his sex. She dressed in a manner that he as a man must react lewdly, and it is her fault for initiating the situation by dressing in such an inviting manner.

This same society will jail a man for acting on the impulse to procreate with a younger than legal age female, simply because she is available for the act and he feels to act on his impulse regardless of legal ramifications of such behavior.

On one hand we tell them it's okay to be an impulsive, immature, obscene oaf, on the other hand, we crush them for following nature, for obeying their developing sexuality.

We as a society lump the predators with the prey and harpoon them to the full extent of the law without mercy or second thought.

We draw blood from the girls, the boys, the women, the men, the parents, we launch proverbial free kicks at the moving goal posts that is what is socially acceptable and morally right, sinking the ball into the back of the net of what is legally correct.

It is proven that boys do not mature as quickly as girls, yet girls are vilified for being physically ready for sexual contact, but still grossly uneducated to the mental and emotional changes that occur as our bodies get ready to birth the next generation. In the same breath, we lambaste boys, who have NEVER been held accountable wholly for their own actions, they have never been allowed to develop, they themselves have never been groomed by an entire society, many of them come from single parent homes, with their mothers as the thin gossamer between them and a cruel harsh reality, that the world only sees them as useful for only as far as their dicks reach, unlike their female counterparts, who the world sees as the loyal pack mules of our societies.

Girls are doggedly groomed into the heads of the next age, men remain suppressed in a toxic fog of pseudo-masculinity, and the painful part is we only seem recognize the cracks in the mirror, when things go so horribly wrong that someone is either dead, or going to jail. When someone gets raped, or murdered, that's when WE a society, realize that we are setting our babies, boys and girls, up for failure.


Even then, what do we do? We the society, what do we do when things go horribly wrong?


We a society, we blame the girl and give the boy a severe punishment for his lack of knowledge and lack of comprehension. He doesn't understand what exactly he did wrong half of the time, we never bother to correct it, we only punish.

The boy who gets caught trying to force a girl to suck his wang, simply knows he sexually assaulted her, but he does not know why it is sexual assault, judging from some of the public comments on the situation, many adults don't know either. The 22 year old guy who has sex with a 14 year old girl, who he was dating for 2 years does not know that his irresponsibility is what he is being punished for, he is punished even though up until he did one wrong thing, he was the representation of this girl's "little boyfriend".

The girl get's a stiff moral reprimand, but society forgives her in 4 years, she is automatically slotted into “social norm” by following the habit of younger woman/older man, but the guy, he's forever labeled a child rapist. Even though it might have just been that one time.

There is very little dialogue to guide men INTO this cruel ocean of realities and nuanced expectations, he is just supposed to KNOW, you have sex with the young ones and keep them close, when you get older you find one that can keep a home because she was raised right, sew some wild oats and get the EP points and by time you're 35, find one that is not too hard on the eyes, with one child or less and settle down.

Us girls seem to have an easier run, seeing as we are groomed from birth to settle into the niche of mammy/wife, but, this is as far as my limited observation will go.


It's time to recognize it cannot be this black and white. We cannot continue to set boys up for failure, they do not deserve it, and neither do women deserve to continue to be raising boys into men, when we decide to find mates.



A Conversation Of Consent.

con·sent
kənˈsent/
noun
  1. 1.
    permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.
    "no change may be made without the consent of all the partners"
    .
verb
  1. 1.
    give permission for something to happen.
    "he consented to a search by a detective"
    synonyms:agree to, assent to, yield to, give in to, submit to.

Consent is defined as permission.

Before we go any further.

People always ask why I go so hard for teen girls, knowing that teen girls often pursue grown men in sexual ways, but I never blame the girl.

Why?
If the uniform is on from 7-4, chances are it ain't earning wages.
Decline the request!!
Disincline to acquiesce!!


Because I was a teen girl who got put in her place by a grown man once, his name is Oscar, he's still my friend to this day, sure he knew that I was attracted to him but he, being the grown ass man that he was, never crossed that fucking line.

Even as a grown woman now he continued to treat me respectfully, as an attractive woman, but I am still that girl he knew from her nerdy days as a school girl.

Anyhow, that's my story.

A minor, CANNOT give consent.

No, it does not matter how the fuck she presents the pussy, it does not matter how big her ass or titties are, it simply does not matter how much cock she calls you and tells you she wants.

A girl under the age of 16 cannot tell you “bring de cocky fuh me cuz I want all” they simply CANNOT.

It is on the ADULT to decline those invitations.

It is on the ADULT to put that child in their place and protect both them and the child from the consequences of breaking the law.

No, a young girl or boy, messaging your phone is not an excuse to say “but she was ready”

No, them sending you pussy and dick pics don't change shit. Send that shit to the police and tell them the youngling is attempting to entrap you with their carnal and lewd conduct. Protect YOURSELF.

At 25, you should be knowledgeable enough to know that if you ducking and coming at a girl mudda or fadda house and she can only talk to you at certain hours she is a minor.

Don't bring the bullshit about her threatening you with exposure, if you really were concerned about that, you wouldn't have fucked with her in the first place. You fucked because you wanted a warm tight hole to drop ya dick in without the responsibility that comes with women your own age. You fucked because she gave you time of day.


As a woman I did my fair share of shit too, so I won't be a hypocrite and cry against younger men who have younger girl friends, but, I will have no fucking sympathy for a man, who allows himself to be “tricked” into fucking a minor.

I don't care how fast a lil girl is, a lil girl, under the legal age, CANNOT GIVE CONSENT, and I will deal with girls because until I see grown ass men, actually taking responsibility for their inadequacies, I will simply not speak on men's issues, I cannot.

It pains me that EVERY single man I know, was raped, by older women, friends of their families, aunts, big sister's best friends, but, I will not use my platform to further delve into that, until I feel satisfied to see grown men actually stand up and call out the disgusting members of their ranks for their bullshit. 

Saturday, 15 October 2016

PettySixteen, The Year Of iBrows

Back in July of last year I got fired from a call centre in Barbados, it was an unfair dismissal but not a wrongful one. The procedures leading up to my dismissal were all followed to the letter, but it was proven that the person doing all recordings of my behavior were biased.

Nothing about my case is abnormal, I have a big mouth, I don't tolerate people trying to walk over me and I make that clear with no regrets in life, obviously when placed in a work environment where absolute subordination is expected, I will cause ripples.

Fast forward to October 12th of 2016.

A pair of videos were posted to social media platform, with a woman in work attire, giving a subjectively funny running commentary about being in a bathroom, putting on her work face.

"One eyebrow, one eyebrow, whe de feh?"

 The company that was employing Tammy Edwards, was the local iMart franchise. They were not impressed with her drawing them into public eye (while not drawing on that left eyebrow), while in uniform, with their branding being visible.

According to her own account, she was dismissed following a meeting with management, she stated it was supposed to be a joke about her only having one eyebrow, nothing to do with work, or even the fire drill itself.

Ironic as it may seem, I completely understand her humor, I roared in laughter because I can relate to something like this, as a mother, I've been in the shower and lathering up and heard a child scream out my name, and tore out of the bathroom, body covered in soap, and low and behold, said child is contorted on the chair, fighting with the television remote- "MUMMY!!! I CAN'T GET THE CHANNEL CHANGED!!!" and poor me, now with soap in my eye, in a bare towel, can only leggo the two "rassholes" and "wha de muddacunt" under my breath and carry myself back into my bath, with my heart now finding its way back to its rightful place in my chest.

To make it even worse, let me show you a scenario that happened at the very same call centre that fired me.

Eyebrows on point. Dem on FEH!!
We were on our production floor, my department was the furthest from the exits and around 10.00am the fire alarm went off. Now, we had been coached in how to react in such an event (get up, and make your way, without panicking or rushing and pushing, to the exists, avoid elevators etc). As my department and the adjoining department went on to do what we knew was right, up pops a senior trainer, yelling at us to stay still until we find out if there was a real fire.

She was ignored harder than "Please read Terms and Conditions" on a java software update.

The people in my department all joked at her (privately amongst ourselves) because surely this was not a seasoned veteran, a manager telling us to ignore a fire bell that was actually STILL ringing as we calmly walked past her.

We relayed the situation to our manager and she let us know we obviously did nothing wrong, and it brought up the need for emergency reactive training to be introduced to all members of management.


But, I digress, back to Tammy's situation.

Many people are voicing opinions that Tammy's behavior in the video is an embarrassment to her former employers, she's cussing and carrying on. She's making light of a serious drill and they were right to dismiss her immediately, on the opposite side of the river, we have many people stating it is ludicrous and childish to dismiss an employee for something so trivial.

I myself weighed in on a video, where I stated, "Most companies in Barbados operate on the three strike policy, if you violate their policies three times within a set time frame, you automatically terminate yourself, if you have previously violated their policies and they have carried on as they were supposed to, there's nothing you can do once you cross the final line."

I do not personally agree that she should have been fired, but, that is me, personally. We understand that is an opinion and it can be right or wrong.

It Gine Be Licks Like FEH!!
However, I'm not her previous employer, I have my sense of humor, which appreciates humor based on personal experience and I don't believe in bad publicity (anyone who's seen Mrs. Ramm's Trip Advisor Page can definitely understand that last part, Casa Grande is STILL open and operating) and unless someone can get their hands on iMart's employee contracts, this is a situation where it is up to Tammy to decide if she wants to pursue any case for wrongful/unfair (two separate issues mind you) dismissal against them. From her latest interview in the media, and her social media posts, Tammy could not be less bothered, she's been seen around the likes of international Soca Stalwart and front man fuh ALLAWE  Peter Wiggins, aka Miss Wiggins Last Boy, aka, Peter Ram.

That being said, this also shows you the general tone taken with frontline staff in Barbados, the grunt workers, the blue collars, the women mostly, are faced with commands of "Shut up and take it" or "do your work with absolutely NO demonstration of character except the decent church mouse".

The instant you attempt to be anything but the quiet, humble employee, you are a nuisance, an idiot, a waste.

Apparently ICBL have the BEST Social Media Team
Of All Time.
Social media has erupted with the cries of how she is stupid, how she should have thought about her actions while in uniform, she was cursing and carrying on, and the horrific attitude of hers, dismissing the urgency of a fire drill because of an eyebrow, that she could have wiped off.

What pains me is many of my friends, who echo these sentiments can be found sharing videos of comedic origins, made by unknown American, like a police officer in uniform making jokes or dancing in his full uniform, hat and gun included , and all the while they're dying in laughter.

What pains me, is she is a woman like me, and she was made an example of, over the verbalization of a mental conversation that she found hilarious, that made no fun of anyone but herself.

I have people stating "You must represent my business as I see fit", and I remember standing up for myself in my last meeting in the call centre when I was told that my attitude was too abrasive and confrontational, because I simply would not bullied.

I see people calling her stupid because Peter Ram is just taking advantage of her recent shoot to the headlines, but when it wears off, what does she have? Here I am writing and hoping one day to make it as a writer for someone who appreciates my candor and style.

I see women, stating this is how proper businesses work, you always have to think of the business and how your actions reflect on them, and I remember my friends who joined a union, demanded a raise of pay to reflect the current financial times, and not 1989, and were subsequently FIRED, from one of the most prestigious luxury companies in Bim.

I see men asking "Why do people think just because someone gives you a little time in the studio means money will follow?" and "Looka foolish she, gone and lost she lil pick", when she was a cashier in a brand name franchise in an island where her hourly pay stays between $6.50 and $8.00 an hour starting.

Sure, she stumbled into her fame, cussing moderately (if you know me, Tammy ain't got one rasshole on me in those videos) and probably choosing a bad time, because fire drills MUST be taken seriously (everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that she actually LEFT the building in an orderly fashion through her entire monologue), but, who is to say that this was not where she needed to be? Who is to say that this isn't her time to do something that can be appreciated?

To me, a single mother in 2016, looking at another single mother in 2016, this the perfect time for Tammy to be on FEH!!!!