According to Nas, "The World Is Yours," but a friend and I discussed which sex is really running things. While I think that men rule the world, he thinks that it's a woman's hand that rocks the cradle.
I say men rule the world because they decide what is acceptable behavior, especially for women. It's men who've decided it's all right for women to pay for dates. They still decide how much women earn and what parts of a woman should be shaved. Think about it. Men's pit hair is no more attractive than women's, but they don't have to shave, while women do.
My friend thinks women rule the world because, according to him, men do everything they do to impress women. They earn degrees, get jobs and even groom themselves based on who they want to attract and what women are drawn to. According to him, if women refused to date men with pit hair, men would indeed take a razor to that area, as well.
So, what do you think? Is it a man's world, like the Godfather of Soul suggests, are are Lady's First, as Latifah said. Which is it, or is each woman and man behaving exactly how he or she chooses free of the opposite sex's influences?
1 comment:
I agree with your friend wholeheartedly, and so does James Brown... He said it was a man's world, but he also said it wouldn't be nothing, nothiiing...! without a woman or a girl. The problem is that women have been led to believe that their power is rooted in their sexuality (specifically, their vaginas)by a society that does not place as much value on the myriad other aspects of their selves... When women figure out that they all deserve to be loved exclusively, respectfully, and completely, they really will take control of this world.
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