One of the aspects of male humor that the feminine side does not appreciate is talking trash. A lighter form is what the kids are currently calling “bagging” and the Don Rickles set used to call a celebrity roast. Men sit around and insult each other and think it is funny. This is very threatening to the girly men who need safe spaces and women in general.
Another aspect of this is what we call “locker room talk”. This involves a bunch of bucks trying to out-macho each other in what studs they are. They boast about their sexual exploits and conquests in such a way that could only be possible is you were a part of the Mongol horde that had just broken through the walls of Kiev. How do I know it is smoke and mirrors? Because if half of the boasting were true there would not be a violated woman left in the western hemisphere and angry fathers would have eliminated them from the gene pool at an early age.
Is it how Christian men talk? No. Is it how the average guy talks? Probably. But they do it in the locker room or bar and they know that it is all talk.
Should we get upset at the trash talk and locker room boasting of Donald Trump? I guess that depends on what standard you held every other president and politician to over the years. Democrats do stuff and people laugh. Republicans do the same thing and it is a scandal. Part of that is that Republicans on the whole live to higher moral standards but the biggest part is that the media turns yawners into scandals as they try to manipulate the elections.
If I were considering Donald Trump for pastor he would not be in the running anyway. If he were trying to date my daughter I would tell his wife and let her deal with him, right after I had my daughter’s head examined. If I were involved in a business deal with him I would hide my money. In reality we are trying to decide if the total evil of the Clintons will get another shot at the White House or we put in someone that might do something right at least by accident.
I am still on the fence. I know I can’t vote for Hillary. I may decide I have no choice.
Whatever you are doing, get real.
homo unius libri
An elderly neighbor of mine used to describe some old fellows from his youth that sat around the cracker barrel at the community general store. He said they sat there so much that they had corns on their arses. Better watch that fence my friend, that's probably a hard place to treat a corn!
ReplyDeleteBetter to be on the fence than continually jumping back and forth like so many of our "leaders" are doing.
DeleteGrace and peace.
We currently HAVE no leaders, though there do seem to be plenty of charlatans around.
ReplyDeleteI live in the land of fruits and nuts so I have come to expect this kind of elected official but what about the rest of the country?
DeleteGrace and peace.