Reply #116: What's the point? [View All]

[HughBeaumont]

Whatever answer I give will never satisfy anyone, it'll never be correct.

Let's go back to what started this: "Men really don't get it, do they?"

It's a statement that really has no right answer. How many times do I have to say this? Yes. I GET THAT MEN SUCK. I understand that women are ogled, stared at, bullied, harassed and made to feel less than a human. But that's never going to be good enough. I can't walk in a woman's shoes because I'm not a woman, obviously. As someone who's been harassed and bullied all throughout grade school, middle school, high school, college, been in bad and abusive relationships (yes, women do it to men as well), that is pretty much the only way I can relate. I got made fun of for looks, acne, height, weight, the way I walk, the way I talk, the music I listen to, the clothes I wear. 20 years straight. I cannot be around anyone I went to school with that did this. Yet, I understand that it happens to women 100 million times more than it does to men and I'm SORRY that it does.

How do you tell anyone that? You cannot. No answer is correct. NO answer is acceptable. I can't convey understanding. That's the problem I have with a statement like "Men really don't get it." It DIVIDES. It's an automatic wall that I'll never break through.

So now I know the right answer to all of this: HIDE. THREAD. You aren't oppressed. You have no opinion. Stay out. This isn't your dance. DON'T COMMENT.

I just don't feel like trading essays on something that obviously can't be bridged nor come to an understanding on.

I don't know what it's like to be you. I don't know what it's like to be her. I know that.

I'm a good person, a great father, a faithful husband, a great progressive and if I'm imperfect on one thing, I guess this must be it.

I'm NOT THAT GUY in the last panel, goddamn it.