Is It Because We Say Yes?
So I was over at this great blog today. I’ve been following this girl because of her endless funny quips on Twitter, come to find out she has a blog where I can indulge in her mental chocolate cake constantly. Today she wrote a blog post called Men Who Think Their Shit Doesn’t Stink that I encourage you to read if for no other reason than the comedic way in which she breaks it down. Here was my response: How have I not ever been to your blog before? Do I just not get up early in the morning. Let me be the first to say BRAVO. Then I’m gonna say something controversial, prefacing it with the fact that I am in full…. FULLL FUCKING AGREEMENT with all that you have said, right down to the word SOME not all in reference to the black man. Here’s my controversial piece. I know after some hard self reflection that it’s true of me, that I struggled with it, and that once I came to embrace it as truth, I started getting treated much better by men. –> We women at some point, accept much worse than we deserve and THAT is how we get caught in these bad relationships. For some of us it takes one bad experience to ex-communicate the one type of man, for some it takes dozens. It boils down to us being encouraged to believe in scarcity (no good black men, no black men period, take what