30 July 2007

dumb women!

"The only thing that frightens me is a weak woman" - Salma Hayek

I agree with her wholeheartedly because we are indeed some strong people and have exacted strength even at our weakest moments. I once said, "a man will never truly know or understand the strenght of a woman" and I stand behind that.

But I do have to admit there are some pretty weak and messed up women out there and I'd like to go toe to toe with a few of them. Why? I'll tell ya....

After having watched "Daddy's Little Girls" for the 3rd time within a week, I couldn't help but want to reach through the tv and beat the stank off the "baby mama" character. Folk, chick ran me so hot that I can't even remember her name for the post. Anyhoo, her name is irrelavent, but her position isn't.

In the name of everything holy, how and why does a woman birth 3 children, pawn them off on her mother to raise, and take up with some low-life because of his status? Does she have no shame? (rhetorical). Though the movie is fictional, one can't help but know that it's truly not. There are plenty of women who do this. They pawn their children off so they can run the streets, maintain their youth, or conduct themselves in less that maternal ways for a dude. What's worse is to demean the father of the children when he is doing right by them.

As not to tell the movie, I'll leave it at that, but it doesn't end my thought process.

I'm currently aware of a grown man who due to some faults of his own lives with his parents. He works and tries to uplift himself and I commend him for that. I further commend that he has sole custody of his eldest daughter whom also resides with him and his parents. He does not shun his role off to his parents, nor does he do things to compromise her life in favor of his own amusements. For the sake of this post, we'll call him Stan. Stan also has another daughter whom spends more time with him than her mother. He treats her with the same love, care, and paternal guidance as his oldest daughter. Her mother gets child support, though never spends time with their daughter, nor does she spend the money wisely on the child. She has all but abandoned the girl, yet makes demands for financial increases and a dumb ass judge awarded it.

Now, please tell me how that even makes sense? She doesn't care for or support the child. She spends little or no time with her, and treats not just child, but the father with little or no respect. In instances like this where the father is doing everything in his power to raise his children up right, a judge knocks him down and we wonder why some parents kidnap their childrem or don't pay child support at all. I give Stan credit for doing everything he can to raise his daughters without relying heavily on his mother outside of being a female role model and influence. I commend Stan for loving his daughters enough to have them and care for them. What I fault is the mothers who abandoned them and them make financial demands for them.

I'd like to speak to some of the judges who treat caring fathers so badly and force them, and ultimately the child(ren) to suffer for their ill-made decision. In a society where so many men do not act appropriately with their children, I can't understand why the ones that do are given the short end of the stick. Strip these so-called mothers of their parental (lack thereof) rights and allow the child to grow in a safe environment where they are loved and properly cared for without fear of a scandalous parent showing up when they feel like it. Furthermore, support the fathers who are doing right by their children.

This truly makes me wanna holla!

7 comments:

jendayi said...

When I saw the movie, I didn't really compare it to real life, but you're right. People are nasty now-a-days, so I wouldn't put this past some people. My heart breaks for those kids...

Miz JJ said...

That is why you do not just lay down and have kids with anybody. People need to be more careful. I am sorry for the Stan's of the world, but they need to be a bit more discerning about who they lay down with.

Blu Jewel said...

j.a.c - indeed it is the children that suffer because many aren't old enough to speak for themselves and even those that can; sometimes aren't allowed to. the system favors mothers, but it's evident that there are many that do not, can't, or won't take care of their children.

miz jj - you are so right. it's important to know and understand someone you're laying with because while that person may seem great are first, you really don't know what you're getting yourself into.

DurtyMo said...

Blu!!! Excellent topic. I too cringed at this movie! The baby momma character was over the top and ill informed. It was hard for me to think that women like her really existed but it is true. You hear stories about it all the time and it just saddens me!! When will we as women wake up to take our respect back?

Believer said...

The courts need to give the children a voice, and not through an advocate either. I mean there own voice! I just saw that movie today on the store shelf, but passed on spending almost $20 to own it. I love Tyler Perry!

Stan's rewards are stored up in heaven where no moth or rust can destroy. Go Stan!

Anonymous said...

Ur just biased because you have a thing for Idris...lol. J/K this was a touching story and it does happen in real life, however it gets overshadowed by depictions of dead-beat fathers instead. Much Luv & Respect to all the real men in the world :-)

Prophetess said...

Excellent post, sis. Just like there are deadbeat fathers in the world, there are deadbeat mothers, and the number of them probably far outweigh the number of men, we just never hear the real statistics on it, you hear me?

But I've always said a man can be the finest mofo in the world, can be the richest mofo in the world, can be the most popular sought-after mofo in the world, BUT if he neglects the fruit of his own loin, then he aint &&^%44!!, and a chickenshit mofo gets nothing from me. (oops, sorry for cussing, Blu)

Good deal, Jewel. You the bomb.