This is a man's world... BUT...

My beautiful, smart, talented girlfriend went to college. Actually, she went to a University but, she went to a "special" college within that large university. She went to Douglas College at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. It is well established and a very good women's college. It has a history for promoting women's rights and progressive ideas. And it has, i'm sure, improved her knowledge and understand of this historically "man's world" and shaped her into the wonderful woman that she is today...

BUT...

What I want to know and what I can't seem to understand is... How come women want to be treated "equal" when it benefits them but want to be treated like a woman in a situation when it is best for them, as in... "you take out the trash cuz i'm a girl, you should lift this big heavy box because you're supposed to, you should open the door for me, make sure the toilet seat is down, etc."?

Last night, my girlfriend and I went out to meet some dude friends of mine at a bar. Some of my friends were checking out some girl across the way. I wasn't really googly eyed about her, actually i wouldn't have even noticed her if wasn't for someone pointing her out. But when I happened to look in her direction later in the night, I got smacked in the forehead. WHAM! Right dead above the eyes, hard like a softball hitting the ground. I was pissed! I was red with anger and had to consume it like a shy teenager who just got spit on by a bully. She insulted me in front of my friends AND she hit me. How is that okay? I don't think it is.

It's like that V8 commercial where all those wives are bonking their husbands on their heads because they pass on all the vegetables.... why is that okay? why is it okay for a woman to put her hands on a man and hit him and disrespect him? God forbid I ever put my hand on a woman... even if it was a joke... even if it was to smack her ass and say nice jeans. God forbid that and society forbid that because for some reason it is not okay to hit a woman in anger or in admiration. Hitting a woman is disrespectful and demeaning to them... that's what woman have marched for and signed petitions for and withheld their "treasure" for... RESPECT.... and now on a drizzly night in some bar in Moorestown NJ... I was getting bonked on the head and disRESPECTED in front of my dude friends and in front of the whole bar.

So what ended up happening...? Well... Nuthin'!! There was nothing I could do except take it and swallow the pride sticker that got smacked on my forehead. I was quiet in the car and we talked about it for a few minutes... but I know it won't change anything. I know i'll still get bonked on the head for supposedly doing stupid things. I'll still get told about how women have the right to be treated equal to men and i'll still have to hear all the women I know talk about how they need a man to take care of them and love them and be there for them... whatever... somebody should just stab me in the forehead with the double edged sword that all you women wanna secretly carry and use like a ninja... it's ridiculous.

At work... we all get paid a certain amount to work... if your job required you to carry a box of clothes or to lift something heavy or to take the trash to the dumpster... don't ask me to do it. I'll do it when its my turn... not every other day..... not once a week... when its my turn. That's what's fair.

On Valentines Day, don't expect to get flower and candy and expect a man to pay for dinner... because if the relationship is "equal" he should be getting something too.... and i'm not talking about "treasure", i'm talking about what men really want... gadgets.. like an ipod or a bb gun or some comic books. Thats what would be fair.

If there are any men out there that want to do another million man march... please let me know... because we can go to DC or even to Douglas college and we can march and have speeches and talk about how we have equal rights... and our rights should not be discriminated by so-called feminists who want all the cards in the deck.... I'll be in the back of the crowd... marching... making sure my girl doesn't see me.