Ahem, I hope people read the entire article before jumping to conclusions and pummeling me in comments... Don't judge a book by it's cover. The title is to provoke people to read, it is not the conclusion.

Do Women Take Advantage of Men That Don't Beat them?

It occurs to me all too often the fairer sex gets away with a lot. I suspect it has to do with having no fear of repercussions.

The fairer sex appears to be adopting some the male's uglier traits.

Just walking into the grocery store I witnessed an elderly women honking her horn incessantly. I thought she might need some help.

She didn't. She was honking at another woman who was just walking through the parking space this rude women wanted to park in.  

I pondered asking what was wrong. But thought better of it as the elderly woman began swearing and flailing her flabby arms. I swear she began to lift out of her seat as the flailing caused the fat on the back of her arms to act as wings.

Males need to give pause before becoming stark raving loons. This is not just a drive by bird-flipping. This situation could get physical. You are stopped, you are swearing at another person. You have honked incessantly and probably triggered the fight or flight adrenaline rush left over from being eaten by saber-tooth tigers (or if you're really religious a T-Rex).

But women feel safe, absolved, above reproach. Their actions do make men wonder: Would we not be doing good if we beat them a little and hastened their return to sanity?

I tried to pull into my driveway. A mini-van with 4 women had parked in the entrance to my driveway. I told the driver I needed to get in my driveway and she seemed fine.

Until I walked away, then she called me an asshole. I turned to her and asked if there was a problem. She said no. All the women laughed.

As she pulled away all the women called me an asshole.

This was a carload of the fairer sex. I expected more. Actually, I expected nothing more than they move their vehicle that was blocking my driveway.

Where are we headed here?

I've been bartending on and off for years. And I have noticed a decline in civility regardless of sex. Just a general deterioration of manners and our ability to deal with real live human beings in reality.

It makes me wonder if the internet is seeping out into the real world.

On the web, people can (and do) act with no fear of being pummeled about the face and head. I have worked places that are less civil and this type of behavior would be dealt with swiftly and involve the offenders head opening the door.

The threat of being pummeled makes people a little more polite. Kind of like the Old West: Fuck- BANG!- you shot me (Thud).

Today people seem to operate with a deluded sense that they do not have to be polite or even rational, because nothing will happen to them.

I am not a violent person ( I can't even beat myself up), but I get happy thoughts about someone slapping some manners into these synapse-free meatsacks.

The knowing smirk I get when confronted by unprovoked verbal abuse is due to the fact I've witnessed beat-downs. They happen while the abuser's pie-hole is still spitting out vitriol and ends when pie-hole is full of fist.

But not in the supposedly highly sophisticated areas, because where I live you these verbal terrorists can operate with impunity. Odds are nobody is going to drag you out of your car and give you the bitch-slapping your begging for.

In the urban areas I used to work in, "Fuck you" substituted for "good morning."

If you called someone an asshole you'd better have thought it through. Because man, woman or child was gonna jump your ass. It might not even be the person you offended, just someone that thought your actions requested a good ass-kicking.

You did not get a free pass, you got your ass beat or you beat ass. No matter the outcome there were asses hanging in the balance and kicking would be done.

We do seem to be de-civilizing and headed towards idiocracy (watch the movie).

I theorized the fairer sex would be the last to devolve. And maybe they are.

So, are we done evolving? Have we begun a spiral into absolute chaos and pure, unchecked stupidity and rudeness?

Do we need to have our computers taken away so we can get out and try to re-capture what limited human interaction skills we once had?

I challenge the fairer sex to take the lead in bringing civility back.

Let's make it hip to be polite or punishable. Either way works for me.