Yeah I said it.  Men.  Suck.  Or maybe its just men from Alabama and California, but I am going with all men for right now.  You see I like to keep up with current events and politics.  Its what makes me a good citizen and intelligent and witty and all around an interesting person to be around (shut up, yes I do love myself).  The point is, even though I am a little weak woman as you assholes seem to so readily think, I can carry on an intelligent conversation with the best of them even as they seem to think my mind is filled with what I plan to wear, babies and washing the dishes.  Fuckers.  Bite me.  All of you.

 

I was in Alabama this weekend.  I can see now this is where I went wrong, but that clearly is not the point as it is not my fault that I chose to have a conversation in Alabama, but I digress.  On Sunday, the man and I stopped by his grandparents for lunch, because frankly I like to eat lunch and it was lunch time.  We ate and while the rest of the women argued over who was going to wash the dishes I made my way into the man room (also known to the rest of the free world as the living room or den, but apparently here this is where the men go to watch tv while the women do womanly things like clean up after the fucking slobs after they just fed the bastards).  **Sidenote:  I do not engage in these ridiculous rituals.  I offer to clean up, I take my plate to the sink and rinse it off and will go about tidying up the place because it is the right thing to do.  However, if someone tells me not to worry about it or to just sit back then I do.  I am not going to argue over washing the dishes.  You tell me not to and I won't, unless of course I am at my own house in which case it is my obligation to clean my own house.  Apparently though, according to my husband, I am supposed to argue with them because that is what southern women do.  They argue over who is going to clean, make dinner, and all of those other female things that only the females are supposed to do.  Keep in mind this is while the men sit on their asses and read the paper, watch tv or scratch man areas.  Men do not cook, clean or participate in obviously pointless conversations like birthing babies or mentral cycles or the stupid gossip that goes on in a small town like who just died, got married, had an affair, etc.  My point here, its like we just turned the clock back 100 years and the women are not allowed to vote or be involved in anything that is clearly manly.  Whatever.  Sidenote over***

 

So the women are in the kitchen and they told me not to help so I didn't.  I went into the living room to watch CNN and the coverage on Israel and Hazballah.  The men were discussing.  From time to time I would throw my two cents in, because I have lots of cents to share being the opinionated person that I am.  I would say something and it would be completely ignored.  Then, not a few minutes later, one of them would say the same thing and they would all go off on that topic or express agreement in what my husband had said (we often share the same opinions as we talk through these things on a regular basis).  This happened repeatedly, at least 6 or 7 times.

 

Now, if this had happened with just men from Alabama, then I would have just been really pissed, but I would have let it slide because time just doesn't move as quickly in Alabama as it does everywhere else.  However, the same damn thing happened when discussing alternative energy sources with my husband and his friend from California.  I would say something and they would look at me like I was just a dumb broad and then one of them would say the same thing and you would have though they just revealed the answer to the cold fusion.

 

Bastards.  All of you.  Bastards.