..and shame the devil?
I don’t believe in the devil, but I believe there is a certain amount of truth in the old adage about honesty. While I despise those who mistake rudeness for being honest and offer unwanted criticisms under the guise of being blunt there are times when you wonder if being “cruel to be kind” isn’t the best way forward!
Someone recounts a tale of woe involving a fiathless boyfriend and some random slapper – don’t you just long to say “No, it won’t be ok, dump his lying arse now before you regret it for the rest of your life?” Or a friend demands to be told that it is normal for her and her fiancé to argue relentlessly and that all will be well after the wedding – it would so liberating to reply “Well, no, you are ill suited and communicate through snide childish passive agression.” I confess to feeling a tad jaded today. I’ve overdosed on women online in various fora.
Especially recently, at the herding mentality of women particularly on the subject of relationships. An entire body of females exists which relies on other similar females to support its every decision and which views with suspicion any deviation from the shallow definition they call the “norm.” All couples argue, all men are lazy, all men are thoughtless, all relationships have bad patches, all women like shoes and shopping, all women want to live like them, eat like them, reproduce like them, replicate their every emotion. The Stepford gene is alive and thriving.
Outrage occurs when they spot difference outside their ranks; near hysterian and accusations of treachery of from within the species. Anyone who has a calm, or happy relationship is “delusional” – they gather to shriek and complain that these other women must be making it up. No one’s husband is that thoughtful, that kind, that loving. They cannot empathise outside their narrow experience, they cannot admit of any value system other than their own.
The problem is of course that like the rest of us they constantly come up against real life and people who don’t live according to their rules. I’m a rebel, I am 
