Thursday, April 17, 2003

Daddy Issues And Why This Is No Excuse

But hang on a second.  Wait a minute.  “Daddy issues?”  This does not really make any sense, not when I take the time to really think about it.  Like, they try to say that when girls go off to college a lot of them turn into huge whires.

But there are different kinds of love.  All the types of love that a person feels towards their family and friends-- are not identical.  Each one is approached from different perspectives, perception, and intentions.

There was brief mention about this in Psych 101.  It is a psychological phenomenon and concept called "Electra."  You know how men have "Oedipus" complex?  Women have "Electra" complex.

At first when I heard about this, way back in Psych class, I was like, "Aha!  Finally they are acknowledging that girls do not in fact have it easy.  It is not that coasting, hovering through sheltered life with not a care in the world.  You know how in some discussion circles, people think girls are pampered and protected; girls have it too easy because their rich daddy spoils them rotten while simultaneously treating the son like crap; girls do not know true hardship; everyone always protects them from having to face anything scary, etc.  And supposedly boys have far more interesting psychology because they have been through some stuff, which has helped them grow as human beings, they are far more resilient and strong, etc."

But now we have psychologists providing proof that the aforementioned assumptions are not true.  Girls do in fact have their own issues to deal with.

Surely this must have made girls stronger and smarter...  Hardship taught them to take care of themselves...  Obstacles taught them to be very shrewd...  Surely this must have taught them that you cannot just assume someone else will take care of you...  Rather than waiting to depend on someone else, you have to be self-sufficient.

Surely this must have taught them that not everyone in life is always going to like you...  And also not everything in life is just going to be handed to you on a middle-class silver platter...

So instead of worrying if people like you and want you to be popular (etc.), you can focus your attention on taking care of yourself.  Must provide for themselves, not naively assume that you can always rely on someone else.  After all, if your own daddy and you do not even get along, how reliable could strangers out on the street possibly be?

Surely this provided them with the mental acumen to be realistic and prepare for the future...
--- Right??

Thursday, April 10, 2003

The Subject Of Daddy Issues

If you have ever perused a "modern female rag" such as cosmo or glamour or any of the countless polymer others, you will notice that they are apparently all written and edited by, and read by, dumb bitches with cystically shitty judgment and tumorously massive daddy issues.

Aha!!  I knew it!!  I knew they were not whole, healthy, complete human beings with psychology intact and with normal emotional functioning.

Yes, I guess the verdict is in.  Any time you hear a dumb slut say crap like "cooking is demeaning to women but b--wing some guy she just met in a club bathroom is empowering; she's feeling empowered f'ing a different guy every night;” or “she is liberated by handing out bj's like candy," or "she always needs a toy of some sort in order to sleep with any of the hundreds of guys she slept with."

Most likely she is a carved out, hollow, soulless, empty shell.  With severe unsolved loose ends with her paternal figure.  Which still does not make any sense to me, because a lot of people have daddy issues.  But they don't all go and turn into two-bit w---es.