Be a man

I have often heard the phrase, "be a man!" thrown about like so much pocket change of wisdom to the angry young man.  From such a crude mouth of the average uneducated American, this usually means to take control of one's life but from an evolutionary standpoint, which is the only way I can view gender confusion scientifically and therefore accurately, being a man means hunting or at the very least engaging in the basest of instinctual triggers to take from the world around you without remorse.

As humans have evolved women started with a better base for the world today.  Men, because of our natural muscular build and social dynamic pre-women's rights movement, were made as hunter-gathers while women were made to tend the home.  This gives women the upper hand in world based on democracy, order and concise thought.  Men on the other hand, were made for instinct.  That's all that matters when one is staring at a mammoth with a spear and no armor.

The point I'm trying to make is what is being a man?  Are we really that far from those base instincts?  The most powerful men in the world have love children, engage in ludicrous sexual behavior, step on others to achieve financial dominance, regard dominance over diplomacy any day.  Americans like to believe that we try every diplomatic solution before we take hostile action but the truth is, we still take hostile action.  Let's just look at a conflict like the Middle East for popular reference.  We have a surplus of oil here in the United States.  We still have oil wells that would be able to supply us here but that doesn't matter because there are people that want to kill us there. So we have to go in and get them.

Where does the money come from in Arabic countries?  Do they make textiles for us or have the natural resources to do so?  Much of our clothing is made in China; our vegetables and fruits come from South America and Europe as well as from right here in the USA.  Our weapons both big and small are European, Russian and good old American born.  Our drugs are South American and to a smaller degree Asian and even our cars are Asian, European and American.  So with all our stuff coming from anywhere but the Middle East, why do we need them?

Is it because we need to protect Israel?  Well they fought a war in 6 days and won, so I think with us sending them money like we do, they'll be just fine.  I think it's because diplomacy isn't the issue.  The issue is that they defy us.  They want to think that their dick is bigger and we can't allow that.  The Cold War from 1939 to 1989 was the longest dick measuring contest in history besides the hundred years war which sought to control the throne of France.  To this day, the queens and kings of England refer to themselves in one of their titles as the kings and queens of France.  So obviously the dick measuring didn't end with 100 years.

The queen of England aside, since her natural authority compels her to at least act like a man, the point is that I believe inherently, "being a man" is about the natural urge to hunt and kill.  Some of us are better at hiding it and those who are may be the ones who end up with all the power because of their superficial diplomacy but even though some can't control it and become serial killers, some just indulge in different ways.  Poe wrote his death song into his stories, The writers of the the television show, "The Following" would later use that natural urge to hunt to translate Poe's urge to hunt into a television show.  Some men have gratuitous amounts of sex (this is where references to women as 'vixens' 'foxes' 'chicks' comes from because you wouldn't want to hunt a masculine animal like a dog or the commonly misunderstood (as it is one of the most vicious creatures on the planet) hippo).  The conquest of a woman is seen as an art form and the most dangerous game is man kind so I believe a woman fits into that dangerous hunt.

For all the evolving we've done as a species, it would seem as though we'll never get to the next level unless women take over in matters of diplomacy.  Women are far fiercer when they need to be and have adopted the manly qualities of fighting and hunting as it was needed to evolve so I'm not so sure even that would be a good idea but it's better than a man whose urge to hunt is inherent.  Maybe women will be able to choose to act on said urges because whether we want to admit it or not, "to be a man means to strive to be the best hunter with the littlest thought, the biggest gall and the greatest physical instinct."