Fvck Feminism

Lemme tell you about the reasons I simply cannot be bothered with feminists.

1. If society is a Venn diagram, you can drop in two circles, one for socially acceptable activism, another for popularity activism and a third for savior type activism. Feminists seem about to balance 2 at a time, but don't meet in the middle, leaving an area I will call maverick activism, which is frowned upon because it offends too many people. (This can also be applied to black ass activism). In these sections, you can find the sub sections of the placard holding activists, the highly educated activists who write and present, the mature activists who act for the greater cause, the green activists who want to fix everything and bring everyone together and the desk activists who can drop you link on top of link supporting why there is a need for activism. In that grey area of maverick activism, you find the ones who start the battle cry, refuse to support oppressive businesses regardless of who might suffer, who get into politicians faces and piss off EVERYBODY by slamming doors on people who still want to hold polite rebellions, in case you wanted to be certain, I'm in there. Booty popping, jaw dropping, pugnacious and present. 

And suspiciously cute with it...

2. They don't realistically understand why feminism today, is not going to work with the principles of yesterday. In other words equality has been achieved. We hold the right to vote. We can wear pants. We get paid based on our capability, experience and skillset, hurrah. We still ain't shit to society (men and women, and those in-between). They don't understand that some women WANT to be housewives, dependent on their husbands, comfortable to sacrifice the "privilege of working to support themselves", but that still does not mean they're to be overlooked and forsaken. Feminism does not realistically address the fact that everyone has the right to choose where they want to be, sure some feminists claim that's why they're feminists but their echo chambers would show different.

3. White feminism is not inclusive of the needs of black women. No no, don't start telling me oh but it's universal, white feminists want the same thing. By their privilege ALONE they definitely can't be wanting nothing for me, but to move out my fucking way, and lemme get some of the rights they've skated on for decades.

4. Intersectionalism heroics is a thing. The privileged middle class feminist using the keywords "oppressed urban women" as her go to conversation for why she's a feminist, is pandering. She has realized if she comes forward to be the savior, chances are people will remember her name if not her contributions, which really aren't ever that poignant, but hey she uses her voice selflessly for the more oppressed, right? Wrong.

5. Oppression Olympics within intersectional feminism is significantly MORE annoying that playing pin the offense on the wypipo. We're all women, but, you're really going to tell me that you as a working class woman, educated and wise, cannot understand the full reasons why you can't speak for upper class housewives, or lower class sex workers? Yet you want to use the moment these extremely marginalized groups finally do come forward to finally give voices to their struggles to show YOUR own oppression? Cute.

6. Feminism still hasn't evolved to recognize that men don't need feminism. We're claiming that men oppress us, right? We don't need to explain certain things to them, right? Problem is, feminists are woefully idealistic about how men will react to women passively sneaking "power" away from them. I'm going to be honest, working with feminists helped me to realize why certain freedom fighting slaves were okay shooting the slaves who were afraid of absolute freedom.

7. They tone police the ever living fuck outta everybody who doesn't speak their individual bullshit diatribe. This isn't exclusive to feminists, I've seen wypipo do it, where they're all for George Lopez, but Dave Chappelle is too crass. Feminists like to throw around words like "problematic" and "divisive" to describe ANYONE who uses common methods, and vernacular while debating against their bullshit. Comically, they'd then turn around and attempt to convince the very people they have told to shut up, that they're supporting them. I mean, STFU, but I'm here for you.

8. Too much time spent arguing with idiots, not enough time spent educating themselves to recognize an idiot, and simply shut it down. Say what you have to say in the simplest ways instead of trying to sound like a fucking philosophy major, when your major is "Juno". Recognize that you don't need to address EVERY. SINGLE. INSTANCE where a man repeats the same damn commentary you KNOW you've argued against for years.

9. They can never smell their own bullshit. In my own experience, for years, feminists will sit down and argue the most counterproductive shit, going on and on convincing themselves that they're winning arguments. When all they're doing, is screaming look at me, I'm a woman, therefore I'm worthy. If you have to announce your worth, in a circle that cannot see your worth, you're kinda not really capitalizing on your worth, you're wasting it. You're bullshitting for the audience. Why are you so entitled that you must advertise not your awareness, but your worth?

10. I'm way too aggressive for feminists. I will call you on your shit, at dawn, at dusk, while riding your dick, getting my hair braided, delivering your baby, ordering soup or picking up the children from school, whenever. I will not accept platitudes of dismissal, masquerading as pretentious moments of acknowledgement. Fuck all that. You doing shit, being passively divisive and I'm going to tell you. Then I'll move back to my chill setting and carry on. I don't have time to dwell on every moment that someone feels I'm so angry with them that I must stay in that moment reliving an unnecessary loop of anger until they feel satisfied that I am aware my anger worried them. I got angry, I said my piece, I moved on. I did what I needed to do to make peace in my own head. Fuck off now. We supposed to have work to do.

This is the beginning of it, I have huge issues with feminism, or even being identified by that title. Trust issues, experience issues, lots of collective bullshit that has seen me lose my shit, to the point that I began to question if I gave a fuck about women's issues or not.

To me it's like, if Feminism is the answer, who the fuck is asking that question?

Cuz I'll be real, I certainly cannot see any place for me, in a feminist world.

This One is For The Rough And Tough Women

It's at this moment, Miley KNEW, she fucked up.

Everybody loves to come for us loud mouth aggressive girls, for example, Rihanna once mic punched a dude in the head because he didn't understand not to touch her, and later in life, she was recorded in the incident when she snarled "Move" at another guy who didn't want to understand she wasn't going to have her path blocked by him. Of course there's Nicki Minaj's "Miley, What's good?" outburst at the 2015 VMAs, the COUNTLESS times Mo'Nique has been called an "Angry Black Woman", and the mother of all us ruthlessly, unapologetic un-ladies, Grace Jones.

People stay reviling these women and their ability to take no shit and react, writing them off as loose cannons only dependable for the stereotypical, predictable eruptions of wrath. "Nothing but drama, ugh, didn't have to act like that" is the sentiment they usually echo when describing our flare-ups. 

As one of these women, I realized young, we constantly find ourselves shut out of social circles, professional circles and familial circles, because someone pushed us too far, and we react. 

We're never given a chance because we "live for drama", which isn't the case, many of us do not in fact, enjoy drama or being messy, which is why we react so explosively when faced with situations that could have been avoided if persons had respected our boundaries, opinions, space, time or any other triggers that we are usually transparent in regards to how easily disregarding such things set us off.

People don't like us because we start with being loud and leave no room for them to attempt their bananagans resulting in a buncha unnecessary shit, that we really didn't want to accommodate in the first place. We clip it quickly, loudly, aggressively.

Apparently that makes us problematic. Apparently that means we can not be the voice for certain causes, as we don't represent "the ladies", ours is not the voice that the decent, middle class, decent ones ever want.

They will envy our skill at keeping the crowds attention, they will charge us with starting the fight, because we the aggressive girls, we never back down, we stand our ground and we will drag everybody to good reasoning, whether they want it or not.

We cast aside our own fears, and let our loudest voices speak, for everyone who doesn't have a voice, knowing that it is us, who will be blamed the INSTANT something goes wrong, knowing it is us who everyone considers the drama queens and way too extra messy chicks.

That's fine.

so yall gonna let these heauxs off cuz they speak
softly? 

What about those passive aggressive, pretentious women, who manipulate situations, use and abuse the same aggressive women, then use the fact that the aggressive women are known for their incredibly short fuses to isolate them wrongfully, using a gossamer of convenient truths, to support the view that the loud, aggressive women, are so problematic that no one can engage them without it falling to pieces?

What about those women who hide their unscrupulous, self serving purposes, behind the pretense of being well intended, well behaved, and adjusted women?

Aggressive women get a bad rap, we stand judged based on other people's discomfort in dealing with confrontation, and it is used against us, by people who KNOW confrontation would reveal that there is justification for our aggression. Yet we are the ones who people approach with distrust and anxiety, because we get painted as the ones who have questionable motives, and that's why we blow up.

  

All the while letting the manipulative lil bitches, (who know to prey on the fear of confrontation by the meek and quiet) get away with destroying the image of anyone not forthcoming to being used as their patsies. 

Cute as a button, but pugnacious as a motherfucker

As a loud and aggressive woman, I like to look around me ever so often, and take stock of the people who have remained in my life, not DESPITE of my aggression, but, because of it.

My best friends have been in my life, one since we were 5, another since we were 14, and the final ones came in my adult life. Only one of them has an equally explosive temper matching mine, and he too, learned over the years to temper himself, after being blamed for being the one who always blows up, but, he is a man, the concerns about his temper comes with the presumption that as a man he is SUPPOSED to be aggressive, he is SUPPOSED to be confrontational, that is the way of the alpha male. 

He has stood by me through some flat out bullshit from people, and watched me defy socialization and instead of hiding, I chose to blow up, I chose to let it all out. 

That's what makes me wonder, is it that people see aggressive women as problematic, or is it that society is full of shit, and our tendency to violently reject manipulation, abuse and oppression worries society, first because society likes being manipulated, and manipulating the oppressed, and secondly, because it is known that we are the ones who are the front line in the wars? 

Sure the diplomats talk and dance, looking pretty in the limelight, but it is us, the warriors who put ourselves on the line, beating our chests in defiance, and roaring in the face of anyone who stands between us, and our goals, we carry the weight of being the ones who refuse to be bullied into a corner, yet, we are called bullies, because we discard any pretense of urbanity, and simply let them have "it", as offenders should, in necessary circumstances. 

A Candid Conversation About Grown Folk Shit - That Munkey Wrench

I just realized, we as women put some seriously unrealistic standards on to other women, and we mostly lie about our vaginal health.

It is never this dry, never this well presented
and certainly never this well contained.

I am 33, and to this day, I don't know a single woman who hasn't gotten a yeast infection at least once.

Yet we as women rather sit the fuck down and discuss gossip about other women's vaginas and their habits, like if we've never gone through some awkward medical shit of our own.

When I first discovered i was having a reaction to certain brands of condoms, AND to my fiance, I freaked out, I was terrified and had no idea how to deal with it.

It was socially crippling.

I was doing everything right, but yet I had an odor and no one to talk to about it at that time (was really embarrassed to go to my doc because he had been my doc from childhood, that's like going to my dad and saying every time I have sex, I leak sumn...)

Eventually it resulted in an older girlfriend coming to me, sitting me down and talking to me, telling me she knows me well enough to know I couldn't be aware of what was wrong, and she doesn't like talking behind 'anybody she respects' back.

I finally went to my doctor, and I cried like a lil bitch to tell him i infected my cooter and didn't know how, or how to save her.

I was what? 22? Lordt! He scolded me for trying to deal with that by myself for 2 years when I could have simply come to him and gotten the solution.

Douches are hardly ever good things. Honestly.
Don't let them in your vagina. 

My lover was throwing off my pH, the latex or spermicide in my condoms when we used them was also aggravating me, and my vagina was overworking herself to correct the mistakes I was making over and over. By douching and washing with harsher soaps, I was making it worse!

I mean up to this point, I never knew semen could affect me, and I thought condoms were supposed to protect me, understand, I've been using condoms since I lost my virginity, (many moons ago- mind ya business, I been fucking long enough to have written several books on it) and I never knew they could offset my body's balance because it had never happened to me.

Everyday I was around women, and only one of them thought to sit me down and help me understand that all the "right" things I was doing, were the "wrong" things. The rest just felt like talking behind my back, making accusations about my sexual habits, whispering and gossiping about how my lover and all the men I was supposedly cheating on him with, who were giving me the nasty infections, could possibly endure sex with me.

This kind of thing is why I stopped fucking with a lot of females, and just went off by myself for a good few years, if I can't trust y'all to come to me about things this close to us all, how can I trust you to be in my life? Not to mention I was privy to pick up the same odors from some of these same very women in my immediate presence more than twice after my experience, but, I had no intention of offering my ignorant opinion.

At 33, I now know better, and I refuse to let a younger woman, go through the shame I went through, be a better woman, passing on wisdom, costs us nothing.

Men too, you don't have to make your female friends embarrassed, just talk to them, we spend hours chitchatting about sexual positions, and our past exploits, if you can tell her about that time you stuck your dingaling in an ants' nest, you can sit her down and talk to her about her health. Shit, y'all talk to your male friends I hope.

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. 

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!!!!

So You Wanted Me To Really Write? or An Address of Fallacy and Transparency By Just Another Citizen.

Senator Maxine McClean

“The increase use of guns to settle disputes is really a pattern of what we are seeing among young people. People are using weapons to settle what I would call disputes in the areas of drug dealing.

“You have to ask yourself why is it that particularly young men, because they are ones seen losing their lives, getting injured and charged with crime, why is it that our young men are attracted to engagement in this and I don’t think it is only poverty. It is not simply a case of poverty. In my generation a lot of people did not turn to criminal activities. "

These are the words of Senator Maxine McClean, on a popular call in program.

She appears detached from reality, and very desperately trying to justify her own support of a few fallacies.

Gun crimes can of course be tied to illegal activities of any nature, since, most people shooting others aren't armed forces members, and guns are not permissive in our country's laws.

How hard is it to understand that testosterone, the need to prove oneself as bigger and badder than the next guy, revenge and warped sense of entitlement can be contributing factors to the illegal use of firearms in crimes where persons are shot?

How hard is it to understand that times have changed, and instead of having to wait for the evening news, or the daily newspaper, instances of violence are immediately available to us via technology?

How hard is it to understand that 30-50 years ago, things that were legal and common place, are not necessarily legal today? It's not just a matter of "back in my day, we did bum bum bum bum bum, and that was it." times have changed, the evolution of the internet and social media, has made the world significantly smaller, and equally scarier.

Let me be sardonic and draw a few references on a social level, police officers in Bim are quick to draw, and also equally quick to beat persons who offend them. Mothers in Bim are quick to swing hand and land it in the child father's other woman, those women have been raising our sons for decades now. The stage has been set, and the players are now all performing.

I find serious issue with this whole "in my generation a lot of people did not turn to criminal activities" I would like proof of her generation having "a lot of people" not turning to crime, compared to this generation of people who get caught in criminal activities. I won't say there is any more or less crime, I can't prove it, or disprove it.

Also, of course guns will be used to kill other badmen who interrupt my King of the Hill moment- when you want a man dead, you don't break out a feather and start tickling him half to death and smother him with mauby syrup, that would be pretty much a rather strange sight, innit?

As for Mr. Symmonds... Sigh.

MP Kerrie Symmonds

"...the St James Central MP was however adamant that the country was anxious to see a level of response that would “assuage their collective concerns that Barbados is in fact able to deal effectively with crime."

No. We the public do not NEED our fears mitigated, we need our police force to EFFECTIVELY, PRODUCE ACTUAL RESULTS IN LOWERING THE INSTANCES WHERE CITIZENS ARE BEING INJURED, OR KILLED BY VIOLENT, CARELESS CRIMINALS.

We have had enough placating and promises, we have had enough redirection, misdirection and misinformation for several lifetimes over now, the people need transparency, and efficiency. Stop pandering for votes and allow the police officers, to conduct their investigations, into ALL crimes, without the political games of Boo Boo Catcher and Red Light Green Light from BOTH political teams.

Mr. Symmonds went on to insinuate further, that our government should indeed, be providing ways and means in which the disenfranchised members of society, (now absent of legal methods of which to secure a positive, and secure financial future, for them and their children) could better themselves and their finances using skills training, since the education system failed them.

I don't know if I would readily agree that the education system "failed" them, that would imply that our education system, even was meant to include them in the first place, and since our education system is not yet ready to evolve to accommodate vocationally inclined youth, instead of the current form of targeting and encouraging just the academically inclined. A system not built to encompass a particular target, cannot fail the target as it was never a contender.

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