When Women Imitate Men

 Men can be louts.  I should know.  I'm a man, and I've seen more boorish behavior from men than I care to remember.

One of the worst incidents occurred when I was in high school.  The only basketball player from our state to ever make an all-state team -- albeit honorable mention -- was dating this girl and slept with her on her birthday, then promptly broke up with her when they were finished.  To make matters worse, for me anyway, he later started dating the girl I was interested in and they ended up getting married.  If only to prove that God has a sense of humor, they have five daughters, no sons.

In any event, I apologize to women everywhere for the conduct of my brethren who were not taught manners.  The way some men behave is not only shocking, but it's shameful.  It's certainly nothing to imitate.

Well, at least one would think it's not something to imitate.

Recently, three stories came out of famous women who seemed to think that acting like an overserved frat boy was the way to behave.  If what was said in these stories had been said by men, I wouldn't have been surprised.  But that each was said by a woman is not only shocking, it's saddening.

First, Rachel Bilson was being interviewed on some online podcast and was asked what she missed about her former boyfriend, Bill Hader.

His big dick, she answered.

Now, Mr. Hader may find the free advertising advantageous to his future romantic endeavors, but if I were him, I wouldn't like the statement for two reasons:  First, that anything so private was now public knowledge and, second, that of all my qualities that's the only one she found worth mentioning.

Not to be outdone, Christina Aguilera, one of the best singers of our time, lowered the bar for all women with her appearance on some podcast called Call Her Daddy, which can be watched here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQnFT328bGg

When it comes to oral sex, Christina Aguilera made a revealing confession on the podcast "Call Her Daddy" that could be considered inappropriate, the singer came out in favor of the protein within semen.

"Swallowing is actually a good thing, it's got a lot of protein in it. There's something to be said for it after working hard," Aguilera said on the podcast.

Again, this is similar in baseness to what I've heard guys talking about when they're six sheets to the wind.  I expect better from women.

Finally, a woman I love to hate, Gwenyth Paltrow, couldn't help herself from joining the conversation.  She of the conscious uncoupling declaration regarding her then-impending divorce from Chris Martin, Paltrow also appeared on Call Her Daddy and ended up in a discussion about the sexual talents of former lovers Ben Affleck and Brad Pitt.  

Paltrow said this:

Paltrow was then asked who was better in bed, and praised both men in different ways.

"That is really hard. Because Brad was like the sort of major chemistry, love of your life, kind of, at the time," she said. "And then Ben was, like, technically excellent. I can't believe my daughter's listening to this!"

During a game of "Fuck, Marry, Kill," Paltrow said she'd get back in bed with Pitt, saying: "I think Brad. Ben, yeah, bless him."

Mind you, Paltrow is fifty-years-old. She's not some twenty-year-old sorority girl who had one lemoncello too many.

I'm not a prude.  I can discuss subjects like this in private.  But putting these things out there for public consumption is too much.  And when it comes from women, I think it's even sadder.

(c) 2023 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles

The MSM Abdicating Its Responsiblity

I coined the phrase The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column.  Anyone who says otherwise is lying.  I rarely come up with truly novel thoughts or expressions, but I'll lay claim to this one.  And I'm right about it.

The MSM, which long has patted itself -- sometimes correctly -- as being the country's watchdog for abuses of power by our governments, both state and federal.  Modern examples of its excellent work include the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.  These incidents, painful though they were at the time, were necessary to our republic.  The ethos that spurred these journalistic triumphs is no more.

Recently, the MSM has been an accomplice to perpetuating hoaxes attacking Donald Trump, whom the MSM and the Left abhor.  At one time, there may have been reason to pursue the Russian interference/collusion story, but once it became obvious that it was a ginned up story, the focus should have shifted to the perpetrators.  Instead, the MSM mocked those who sought to debunk it and pilloried them, going so far as to call for censorship for, ironically, misinformation.  Rather than uphold the tenets of the First Amendment, the MSM pushed the need to have people and outlets deplatformed.  This is inimical to the underlying philosophy of the First Amendment.  In these days of partisan politics, however, the Left has abandoned all impartiality and embraced the Left's agenda wholeheartedly.

Now, with the Republicans having retaken the House, whistleblowers from the IRS and former associates of Hunter Biden, Man of Dementia's dissolute son, have testified before Congress as to the Biden Criminal Family Enterprise's illegal activities.  The MSM has twisted itself in knots trying to defend the Bidens while at the same time tacitly admitting that the charges are true.  The irony is unbelievable, yet there is no shame on behalf of the MSM.  Even Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame has sought to defend the Russian collusion hoax.  The world is indeed upside down.

Not to be outdone, the Right has lost its collective mind.  Although I would readily agree that what's been done to Donald Trump is unfair beyond measure, to elect him president out of spite for the three and possibly four indictments he's facing is ridiculous.  The Right's bench is infinitely deeper than the Left's -- there is no viable alternative to either Man of Dementia or the Harridan of Blair House -- so there are other options.  But people on the Right are so angry -- and rightly so -- that they've lost all reason and are willing to elect Donald Trump even if he's convicted.

The MSM could have prevented all of this by doing its job.  But instead, with its craven politics being put ahead of the well-being of the country, we're facing a crisis that we don't even acknowledge.  What with Russian, China and its client states on the warpath, we need to be united, no matter who goes down.

(c) 2023 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles