Colt
wrote yesterday on whether women really want to be treated as
equals (or not), and
it got me thinking about what men on the whole seem to want, and
whether that's all that grounded in reality or not.
I talked before about my belief that most of the bitter women men think are out
there are really just Internet bitter; in the echo chamber of the World
Wide Web, it's pretty easy for one's thoughts to sound like extreme
versions of themselves, and it's also very easy to treat others
unempathetically, judge, excoriate, and attack, in spiteful ways online
that we wouldn't dare do with even our worst enemies live and in person.
When you stop and think about it though, there sure are
a whole lot of sensitive people right now ready to respond
on a hair trigger with a vicious attack both online and (with a bit
more subtlety) in real life, and there's a whole lot of
lamenting about where all the "good men" and "good women" have gone,
both from men and women. Why?
I'm going to propose here that there is a large undercurrent of
wanting more than one's station in life among average men and women,
without caring to elevate one's station accordingly. And
that that undercurrent of wanting things without doing the requisite
things to get them is what drives all this anger, torment, and strife.
It's simply a case of unmet expectations, played out at grand scale
society-wide.