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On Men, Women And Being "Whupped" (Conclusion)
By Timothy N. Stelly, Sr.
Aug. 12, 2010
As an lomng-time observer and certified expert of male-female interaction, I established a definition of being whupped and also introduced readers to the first three stages of this malady. In this article I will examine the crucial fourth and fifth stages and what you can do to help prevent this disease from becoming further entrenched in our country.
WHUPPED STAGE FOUR: THE TEARS OF A CLOWN
I’ve known such men to go home crying to their mothers. I’ve seen them jelly-legged as they walk the street at three a.m. teary-eyed and carrying a box with their belongings—all because their woman will no longer do anything with them. She use to make up excuses like “I’m tired” or “I have a headache.” Now she just turns her back and tells him to leave her alone. More telling is the fact that he’s too lazy or inept to go out and find his own extracurricular activity. Even worse, he “waxes the old carrot” in secrecy and is ashamed of it, not to mention scared to death she will discover his deed and out him in front of her friends.
Confused, Joe decides to spend a few days at his mother’s house. Remember, his woman has made sure he has no friend he can turn to, unless that friend is married to one of her friends. Going to one of his ex-girlfriend is out of the question, since Joan badmouthed them and Joe was powerless to do anything about it. That ex-girlfriend now feels betrayed and Joe has more than one woman hating him. (NOTE: A woman will never put a man out if she thinks he has somewhere else he can go and have fun.)
His attempts to sleep with one of her friends. He’s drunk at the time, so that if he gets shot down, he can always blame it on the booze. Joan gets word of it and it makes her anger burn even hotter. She and her girlfriends then gather for one of their bi-weekly male-bashing sessions, but later, Joan pretends to have a change of heart and invites Joe to come back home. She initiates this by telling him she just came from Victoria ’s Secret and that she wants to make up. Once she sees how eager he is to come over, she slips in the disclaimer that there are a few new rules.
Now he must not only pay all the bills, but he has to help her with the housework. She also gets to keep her new-found male friends, many of whom “just happen to be in the neighborhood” after ten p.m. She ends her new rules diatribe with, “You need to get yourself together.”
Even though he has no idea what she means, he agrees and follows along, like a dog beaten into submission by a cruel master.
We see such men all the time. He’s the one whose woman goes out every weekend, and even though she leaves the house with no money, comes home at 4 a.m. drunk. He’s the man who sighs somberly when he finds a pair of underwear in the wash that aren’t his brand or size. He’s the guy who begs his woman for gas money to put in his clunker, while she drives around town in the new car he’s making payments on. He is quite a sight. Even the bartender, the mailman and his mama knows he’s being played and that Joan is cavorting with a couple of different guys.
Finally, with a burst of alcohol-fueled courage, Joe goes home for a final knock-down drag-out with Joan. At home things come to a head and our boy is officially given the old heave-ho, but not before she ridicules the size of his paycheck and manhood. He can feel his scrotum shrink as she yells at him. All he wants to do at this point is escape. She also promises to sic the D.A. on him for child support, because by this time,they have produced a child. Joan follows him to the front door and shouts, “Take your new car, put your things in it and get the hell out of my life!”
Somehow, Joe feels bad for driving away in his own car. It is still relatively new, but she has put a lot of wear and tear on the engine and brakes, and her kids have spilled food all over the seats so that the interior smells like a cross between a garbage pail and a candy store.
Joe responds to her remark with something stupid like, “You sure you don’t want to keep the car?”
She replies, “I don’t want a damn thing of yours!”
Still, he’s so sick that he allows her to drop off her kids on a Friday night so she can go out with her “girlfriend.” When the “girlfriend” arrives, Joe notices that her chest is sort of flat and that she also happened to have a goatee and a voice like Barry White’s. But he babysits anyway, in the hope that he might get some residual sex if she comes home.
He convinces himself that if he can “get it one last time,” everything will be fine. It will be proof that she still cares for him, even if she won’t tell him so. Sadly, when that last time comes, he will again be the last to know, and it will be a while before he realizes there will be no next time.
Joe is now in a game of emotional whack-a-mole and he’s the mole. It’s a psychological beat down on the level of Kimbo Slice Vs. Kirk Douglas. It’s getting smacked in the face not with a pie, a wet towel and a wooden plank. It’s the kind of lopsided situation that sends a man to a psych ward, a psychic or to Craigslist in search of a hundred-dollar-an-hour “escort.”
WHOOPED: THE TERMINAL STAGE
After all this, poor Joe goes through one of five final episodes: (1) Nervous breakdown, and/or a steep decline into drugs, alcohol or both; (2) He becomes sexually promiscuous to salvage some small piece of his ego. These women are usually skanky and will sleep with anyone. (3) He might stop dating altogether and simply bad mouth women every time he gets the chance. All women are either “bitches,” “gold-diggers,” “ballbusters” or “closet lesbians.” (4) He might even join a cult, or move to another state, in an attempt to outrun his shame, which is like trying to outrun the moon on a lonely stretch of highway.
Then there is what is known as “The Fifth Element”: The poor boy begins to “experiment” with the gay lifestyle. I had a buddy who took this route. His so-called “experiment” lasted fifteen years. I told him, “You oughta just come out of the closet. Not even AIDS drugs stay in the experimental stage that long.”
CONCLUSION
Being whooped is like having high blood pressure. Not omly is the heart is damaged, but it is a silent killer. It is like overeating—an addictions, an epidemic. Doctors across America are banding together to combat this malady and have formed a group called HELP ME—Hospice for Elevating the Lives of P---ywhupped Men Everywhere. Just ten dollars a month is enough to keep Joe on the road back to respectability. Won’t you donate today? Call 1-555 EMPTY SAC . Operators are standing by ready to take your call.
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About the author: Timothy N. Stelly is a poet, essayist, novelist and screenwriter from northern California. His novel, HUMAN TRIAL, is the first part of a sci-fi trilogy and is available from Amazon.com, allthingsthatmatterpress.com and in e-book format at mobipocket.com. HUMAN TRIAL II: ADAM'S WAR is now available. Stelly also has a short story included in the AIDS-themed anthology, THE SHATTERED GLASS EFFECT, due out in February 2010. His story, SNAKES IN THE GRASS, Is a tale of love, betrayal and its deadly consequences. Reviews of HUMAN TRIAL can be read at amazon.com
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