en-us http://www.keithwatanabe.net/index.php Keith Watanabe's Website http://www.keithwatanabe.net/blogs/2007/12/25/f66c6077a79908be847529d84981c59d.html party I was privileged to be invited to on Sunday night for Christmas. Then this girl Tomoko came down and after a few glasses of
wine, started going off on me about a long email regarding her not getting a boyfriend. I don't know what made her upset because
it was just some earnest observations I made. But apparently it stung her. I don't think she could fully comprehend what I was
saying in the email, but I think people hear/read what they want to hear/read.

Then tonight I get to find out that she was upset about the whole deal. People were accusing me of "not being nice" and treating her
how I treat most people, which in all fairness is that I treat people as equals. Hey, women's rights and equality and all that good
shit right? Well, apparently, she's a "woman" after all and I have to treat her like a lady. So all those feminist bullshit courses
I took at UCI and those so-called sexual harassment courses where pretty much people are asking to be treated as equals have completely
made me oblivious to the fact that men and women are in essense NOT EQUAL and that I have to treat women differently from men.

First in terms of Ice Princess, after this rant, I'm not going to worry, nor care. It's not worth my time and I refuse to dumb myself
down to other people's levels and let myself be manipulated. Second, just because Ice Princess was treated in a certain way growing
up as being some privileged little daddy's girl and not learning that this world sucks and you have to claw and bite your way to the top,
I'm not going to help her out anymore. I kept reiterating that where she's going (NYC) it's a lot tougher and that people have worse
mouths than mine. But she can think what she wants to think. One day, some incident will hopefully open up her eyes to reality rather
than being distorted with Mickey Mouse glasses that she (and a lot of spoiled little girls out here) like to wear.

Now, as far as the whole women's rights crap, well, it's just like I stated it: crap. So now I'm totally fucked up because I'm too
brainwashed by my university teachings and the imminent threat of frivolous lawsuits in the US to be a real man (which is what most
women who are not lesbians and horrible to look at truly want). Instead, I've become a twisted format of the humanities' politics,
kinda like Edward Norton in Fight Club, reduced to impotence so that women can claim power over me.

From here on out, I will now become a redneck in my views towards women. Yup, they belong in the kitchen, cleaning up, making babies,
and all that good Arn Anderson interview stuff back in the day (I knew I liked pro-wrestling for a reason). In a way, I understand
why the need for a patriarchical society has existed for so long. It's just that having two opinions is not better than one.

It's funny how people clamor about nuclear families splitting, divorce rates being up, etc. Well, the reason is that now women get
an opinion and the center of stability of what's expected in society is retracted. Tomoko was saying that she could be a good wife
and career woman. Really? I can only see that if her family (assuming she has one someday) has a shitload of money. That's just a
fact these days. Someone has to take care of the kids and if it isn't the mother, then you have to hire someone. That cost money.
Then add up all the other costs involved in just trying to survive in the inflated world and you're looking at two people needing
to work for those kids. I'm wondering if she's willing to make all those social sacrifices so that she can return home early at night
to make sure her kids have a good meal and watch the right television, do their homework, handle their chores, etc. It takes a lot
of dedicated time to become a good wife/mother. And I seriously doubt she thought very far into this issue.

But I guess all this is not being very nice to her because I speak the truth. I'm supposed to lie to people. You get that double edged
sword here where girls hate liars, yet they want to be lied to just so their shallow, brittle egos don't fall prey to reality. They
want "romance," which is just a euphemism for bullshit blown into their pretty little ears, which would fly straight through the other
side of their hollow little heads.

Here's the thing: I ain't changing for no one anymore. Don't like me, tough shit. Get some earplugs and a pillow and hide yourself
in a dark closet. I refuse to allow myself to dumb myself for anyone or any society. Now, you either respect my stance, or pretend I'm
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