House of Eratosthenes

Cassy Fiano, who works hard at developing all the attributes the rest of us are supposed to be wanting to have…beautiful, nice, articulate, quality thinker, wholesome values…is experiencing a case of culture clash. She’s come in virtual contact with someone who works equally hard (if we are to believe what we read, which isn’t much of a stretch) at being a nasty, toxic person. And is admired for this, for the time being, with regularity…

After reading this interview with Megan Fox, I’m convinced that she epitomizes everything that is wrong with women today. Check out her illuminating statements in the new Cosmopolitan:

MEGAN FOX is scary as she is sexy.

The Transformers beauty has been giving her verdict on relationships and leaves us in no doubt who wears the trousers in her house.

She told Cosmopolitan magazine: “Women hold the power because we have the vaginas.

“If you’re in a heterosexual relationship and you’re female, you win.”
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“I never call them guys, I always call them boys,” she explained.

“Maybe it’s a superiority complex – my needing to keep them down.”

Ya think??

Reading this, I just couldn’t help but think that this is exactly the problem with women and relationships today. Too many women think exactly this way, “empowered” by third wave feminism and Sex and the City. When the woman in the relationship has this kind of attitude, it dooms the relationship. It doesn’t matter how Beta the man may be. It will be doomed to fail.

My wisdom:

At her age, [her shitty attitude] actually makes a lot of sense. Twenty-somethings think of it as commodities trading, and she’s worked really hard to achieve precisely the look that is in the greatest demand, so she’s showing the behavior that capitalizes on it the best.
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[Trouble is,] When you have set yourself up in an antagonistic role, it’s best to be hard to read. The power-mongering-bitch thing is such a simple thing to read, and an even easier thing to understand. And so long before the immature male mind figures out this kind of woman is a waste of his time and energy — like, ten years earlier than that — even if he possesses only a mediocre amount of intelligence, like what Ms. Fox possesses of acting ability, it’s a relatively easy task for him to begin…drum roll please…

…manipulating her right back. And there are lots of ways to do this.

The glossy-mag puff piece doesn’t go on long enough to direct any attention toward how Ms. Fox perceives men — whether she has some complaints about them or not. Anyone want to place some bets that the starlet has a negative comment or two to make? That among these complaints might be that she has found them to be manipulative?

Wouldn’t exactly be sticking your neck out, would it.

It’s a rather sad thing what is happening to the bridge across the divide between the sexes; it’s sad what is happening to sex itself. The act used to be the highest compliment a woman could pay to a man. It’s still a positive thing, I think, but now it has some meaning as one of the few things a woman could want from her fella, that isn’t exploitative. Think about it — a woman wants something from you, what she wants is not sex, nowadays that’s likely to mean it’s something you wouldn’t give up willingly. And if sex is part of it, that means she’s bartering with you, which means it’s something more in her interest than in yours. This applies to anything, I don’t care what. It’s become so difficult to simply share a positive experience in which you both want to participate.

I think a lot of women are in Ms. Fox’s camp, and have simply given up. “He” is just a lowercase-h little-boy thing…something to be manipulated. So there aren’t things she wants to do that he’d also like to do, versus, things she wants to do that he’d despise…and therefore are to be avoided. Instead, there’s this vast encyclopedia of things she wants to do, in which he would not willingly participate — and so he has to be bribed, blackmailed, ridiculed and coaxed into it.

So easy to read, even for a young, inexperienced beau. And that is to the “lady’s” detriment. This is a house that cannot stand.

This is a house that cannot stand.

Except for the proverbial “one night.” (stand) Yep. I would.
- bpenni | 09/02/2009 @ 13:36
I need to make it a point to read Cassy regularly.

I like the woman, and I was impressed by her tea party speech. She’s a good gal. She’s in my tribe, for sure.

As far as Megan Fox goes… I like a woman who knows her feminine power and is comfortable with it. I don’t like one who abuses it. And I can figure those out pretty quick, so it’s really not a problem.

Can’t say one way or another which one Megan is. Don’t know her.

But ultimately, it is of little consequence to me, as I am a happily married man whose chances of ever meeting her are infinitesmal.. Sort of pre-empts anything approaching serious speculation in that direction.
- philmon | 09/02/2009 @ 19:41
Except for the proverbial “one night.” (stand) Yep. I would.

Yeah Buck…I’m sure she’s just itching to have meaningless sex with someone old enough to be her dad.

Thank you for your input. It’s a valuable addition to this blog, as always.
- cylarz | 09/02/2009 @ 23:59
Might I suggest that you take things a little less seriously, cylarz?

Sometimes we disagree on stuff. Sometimes we’re even a little grumpy. And sometimes, we’re just palin’ around, shootin’ the shit around here. But we generally refrain from being nasty to each other.

Deep breath. Buck’s a good friend around these parts. I’d take him as a neighbor any day.
- philmon | 09/03/2009 @ 05:50
Ditto. What was the point of that?

You know darn good and well if the intent was a bullying “Am I The Only One Who” maneuver, encouraging folks to march along with you in case they hadn’t already made up their minds, that it was doomed to fall on its face. You seem to have experience in that situation of being the rugged individual, the only guy who can see something. You should therefore be equally experienced in that exercise of figuring out when your words might stand a chance of changing minds, and when they might not. But in this area, sometimes, you are truly blind. Your arguments are well thought-out on other subjects, you should be bright enough to see this one even if you & Buck aren’t the best of friends.
- mkfreeberg | 09/03/2009 @ 07:13
Ditto. What was the point of that?

Just this: once an asshat, always an asshat. He just can’t help himself.
- bpenni | 09/03/2009 @ 15:31

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