Max Davine's Blog - Posts Tagged "boys"

Why would I be standing in the freezing cold and rain, ushering at Simmonds Stadium? Character study, is why. If you're a thinker or a feeler or both, it's impossible not to be moved by the perfect snapshot of where Australian culture has been, and where it is going. Elderly men will wait by the security desk while the lady is having her handbag searched. Boys (I say boys for any age, you have earn the title "man") will go right on ahead. Every time. Without fail. This is not turning into a feminist statement; she's an idiot for allowing herself to be treated like that, and thus is a girl and not a woman. One girl, I saw, getting rained on and shivering cold, clinging to her boy's arm while he's wearing a big, thick coat. I thought to myself; surely he's going to give her the coat. We haven't strayed that far. Nope; she even asked him for it, just to slip her arm into one sleeve and huddle with him inside of it. He mumbled something and kept on walking, dragging her behind. Idiotic girl and arrogant prick of a boy. Then an elderly couple went to the bistro; the man opens the door for his lady, not because she can't get it herself, but because he still respects her and has the strength of character to bear the door (after all, she's carrying a handbag, and men have both arms free), and she the fortitude of a woman to allow him this definition of his character. I stopped doing that long ago; I got tired of the abuse the girls always gave me. Women said thank you, but women have become rare enough to be on the endangered species list. This is the choice of girls. - now I'm going to focus on heterosexuals because, as far as I can tell, homosexuals seem to treat each other beautifully at any age, if there's something else going on then perhaps a homosexual writer would be the better person to comment and so it's out of respect I form no observation of them - The want to protect, wait for and support women is part of the identity of a man, I believe this truly, but he won't so long as she doesn't earn it, demand for it and seek it. It is only girls who whine and say "men are this" and "men are that". Piteously, they have clearly never met a man, and have mistook the boys they know for men. Women, on the other hand, know what a man is; men find them, and are proud to be their friends or partners, because a real man hasn't the ego to be bruised when a woman wants his friendship and not his heart (and a woman has the courage to declare this want to him), and he has nothing to prove, thus what is shared between them will not be shared or distorted in his own circles, so long as he knows she will pay him the same courtesy. It's the choice of girls to become a woman. So, based on the folk at Simmonds Stadium, I'm hoping both boys and girls of Australia will raise the standards for themselves, and when they attain a sense of self and truth, they will receive the same from the people around them. I believe being good to each and ourselves other is built into our nature, we are by birth strong of character and stout of heart, it's our choice to deny it. I'm hoping we can rid ourselves of the need for affirmation, of the fog of superficiality, and communicate, demand and speaks from, always, the unique truth that defines each of us. Like attracts like, be it friends or lovers or even our children, who if we want the best for, we have to provide example. I'm hoping we can raise our own standards, for ourselves and others, our friends, our lovers and our families. I may have given up on opening the door, but I will never give up on the good nature buried deep inside all of us.