Who
starts and perpetuates wars? Who become
terrorists, dedicated to destroying themselves and as many innocent people as
they can take with them? Who shoot
little girls in the face because they are scared to death to allow females
equal rights and opportunities? Who tend
to be obsessed with violence, particularly violence with guns, in everything
from video games, to movies, to what they play on the playground? Who go on murderous, assault-weapon rampages,
killing dozens of innocent people? Who
has to turn everything into a competition, a matter of one-upmanship, of
mine-is-bigger-than yours? Who commits rape, incest, and the vast majority of
domestic violence? Who commits most of
the crime, period?
In
a word, Men!
Not
all men, of course. Indeed, virtually
every man I am friends with, am related to, or even, as far as I know, know, does not do any of the above. But the people who do do the above are, for
the most part, other men. Testosterone-laden
men, who have not managed to evolve beyond the aggressive, violent mind-set
that may have helped to insure survival back in the bad old days, but now
serves only to make the world a place where bad things that do not have to happen, endlessly happen.
So
what are we gonna do about these guys? The “we” being the women of the world, and
those non-violent, non-bullying men – in other words, civilized men – who do not fit into the category of
Undesirables? How do we wrest power away
from those guys who do not hesitate to resort to violence when things are not
going to suit them? In places like the
United Stated, the other Western industrialized nations, women obviously need
to make up a larger portion of their countries’ legislative bodies, have more
of a voice on what bills are passed. And
we need more female judges who don’t have a problem with handing out stiff
punish-ment at sentencing. You could say, we need to get tough on crime!
For
example, why isn’t the automatic penalty for rape chemical castration? Note that it actually is a possible punishment in several countries, including Australia
and New Zealand, and even nine U.S. states, but there is a question as to how
often this punishment is meted out. And
indeed, it’s a choice; those
convicted of sex crimes, particularly crimes against children, can opt for
chemical castration, rather than jail time.
But why on earth should it be a choice?
You rape, you molest children; as far as I’m concerned you’ve lost your
right to choose what you’re going to
do with that penis. But since there is
absolutely nothing that all men fear
more than a loss of their manhood, it’s awfully difficult to get a bunch of,
for the most part male, lawmakers, to make that the required punishment for sex
crimes. But for gods’ sake, think how
the incidence of rape, of child molestation, would go down, if every man who
committed such a crime knew that would be his punishment? And if the argument is, no then they’d just
kill their victims, because the punishment for murder could be less (in their
eyes) than that for rape, then let’s make castration the punishment for rape, even
if the victim is also murdered. In
short, you rape, no matter what else you do, you lose the ability to rape
again. And for that matter, you kill somebody, you die! Despite my basically liberal political tendencies, I am for the death penalty. Folks, we need to get rid of the Bad Guys!
The
gun control controversy is another area where we need to wrest power away from
violence-loving men. All those men out
there rushing to buy up as many guns as they can, in desperate fear that they’re
about to lose their precious right to own as many, and whatever kinds of, guns
as they wish (which as a matter of fact the Second Amendment does not guarantee) need to be reined
in. And we, the civilized people of the
world, are the ones who are going to have to do it. Note that I am not saying a man who like to
shoot, who owns a gun, who likes to hunt, is necessarily one of the Bad
Guys. But if he thinks this right of his
is more important than maintaining the safety of an entire country, then he
goes into the corral with the rest of the Undesirables.
But
what do we do with all the guys in that corral?
Send them all to Mars, where they can duke it out amongst
themselves? And of course, the first problem is, how do we get them all
into that corral? When the
major problem of your planet is nearly one half of your planet’s reigning
species, you’ve got a problem indeed…
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