Long time coming (no pun)
Comments(2) I wrote a short story years ago about a guy who starts going batty after a semi-addictive combination of factors including the watching of a scrambled porn channel. Ubiquitous internet porn has rather dated this premise, and it wasn’t really well written anyway, but at one point, in a conversation between two loner, construction worker type characters, the one guy comments to the other about the strangeness of our cultural familiarity with the word misogyny, yet no one seems to know it’s companion word. While there was certainly a lack of research on the writers part, I would maintain that the appropriate term is far less known. The word is misandry.
Furthermore I think it’s interesting how, because of the well known and obviously heinous and animalistic acts committed by weak men, there is a general unwillingness to recognize the potential for mental unbalance of similar depravity in the female sex. Stastically of course, the male atrocities far out number the female. If a man walks in fear through a shadowly lit parking deck, certainly he isn’t imagining that a mentally deranged female may leap from the darkness and assault him – an attacker is FAR more likely to be male. Yet obviously, neither gender has the lock on mental deviation. Twisted sickness in the female tends to manifest itself in other, less obvious ways. Everyone is responsible for their own actions, so in no way am I making excuses here, but if you look into the cases, behind many serial killers, scumbag rapists etc. there are “bad mommys”.
One definition of a monster is an entity who becomes so spiteful against the absence of genuine love and other positive forces, so consumed by their perceived pain, that they console themselves through hatred and destruction, allowing vengence and corruption to become their guiding forces.
brilliant. where will you submit this? dated is in. it serves to highlight the universality of the rest.
You mean submit the story? I would do a reading here, but it’s not all that. I have resurrected one of the more interesting points of the story. That is what you see here.