July 24, 2011
3. Newblog2011: 07/24/11 "Are you bleeding?"
A few days ago, I was walking along the street that goes back to the shelter. Across the street, I saw a boy toddler in a red shirt that said "13" on it. He was crying and running toward the porch of a house where there was a woman who might have been his mother. A man who might have been his father was following the toddler from several feet back, saying loudly "Are you bleeding?" to the child. The man was laughing.
The impression I got from the man's tone of voice was that perhaps the toddler had fallen and then started crying, and that the father's thought was that if his son wasn't bleeding then whatever had happened wasn't bad enough for the toddler to be crying and upset about it.
I thought that the United States had been trying for a few decades to move toward being a society in which men are raised to be full human beings who try to recognize, respect and respond appropriately to their own and other people's feelings. I thought that American society had been trying to grow into a society that encouraged men neither to be abusive nor stoic.
It seems to me that everything that the big harassers, who are now also overtly endorsing child rape and child murder, have done over the past year and a half has been against what was a good trend in the social evolution of American society.
I also think that there are dire implications of that toddler simultaneously wearing a red shirt that said "13" on it and being mocked while he was crying.
Copyright L. Kochman July 24, 2011 @ 12:06 p.m. (transferred from Word)
3. Newblog2011: 07/24/11 "Are you bleeding?"
A few days ago, I was walking along the street that goes back to the shelter. Across the street, I saw a boy toddler in a red shirt that said "13" on it. He was crying and running toward the porch of a house where there was a woman who might have been his mother. A man who might have been his father was following the toddler from several feet back, saying loudly "Are you bleeding?" to the child. The man was laughing.
The impression I got from the man's tone of voice was that perhaps the toddler had fallen and then started crying, and that the father's thought was that if his son wasn't bleeding then whatever had happened wasn't bad enough for the toddler to be crying and upset about it.
I thought that the United States had been trying for a few decades to move toward being a society in which men are raised to be full human beings who try to recognize, respect and respond appropriately to their own and other people's feelings. I thought that American society had been trying to grow into a society that encouraged men neither to be abusive nor stoic.
It seems to me that everything that the big harassers, who are now also overtly endorsing child rape and child murder, have done over the past year and a half has been against what was a good trend in the social evolution of American society.
I also think that there are dire implications of that toddler simultaneously wearing a red shirt that said "13" on it and being mocked while he was crying.
Copyright L. Kochman July 24, 2011 @ 12:06 p.m. (transferred from Word)