SHE... HER... FEMININE... WOMAN...

I saw a quote the other day, it opened my eyes a bit more than what they have already been opened.. and it read... "She was created from the rib of man, not from the head to be above man, or from the feet, to be under man, but from his SIDE, to be by his SIDE, as an EQUAL" ... Now if that doesn't make you ponder things a bit more, may i ask, what does make your brain tick? Somewhere along the way we lost sight of the fact that SHE, HER, FEMININE, WOMAN was created for us to cherish and LOVE as our EQUAL and not as our SERVANT... The women I grew up seeing, had pride and an unmatched level of class and undeniable strength... Not saying that the women of today don't have the same qualities, but the amount of women that hold these such qualities has greatly diminished in the years since our EGO's stepped on the scene... Maybe that might be due to the fact that so many of our "men" have treated them as toys or flings or things of that nature and most importantly haven't been present in the birth, raising, and rearing of these BEAUTIFUL girls... Some of our men resort to cutting-down, demeaning, belittling, physically, mentally and almost most importantly emotionally wearing down our women until they are on their knees in tears of hurt and pain. These tactics have been accepted in today's society by not only the men but also by the women... We have got to change this mentality that our women have to be subservient and under our rule. These same women that we bring so much pain and stress to, give birth to us men, they feed us men, they nurture us men, they STAND BEHIND us men even when we want to give up THEY are there for us... SHE, HER, FEMININE, WOMAN has contributed greatly to the success of us as men, not only BLACK men but ALL MAN... One of my favorite rappers of all time, TUPAC SHAKUR said in his song "Keep Ya Head Up" , "I KNOW THEY LIKE TO BEAT YOU DOWN ALOT, AND WHEN YOU COME AROUND THE BLOCK BROTHAS CLOWN ALOT, BUT PLEASE DON'T CRY, DRY YOUR EYES, NEVER LET UP, FORGIVE BUT DON'T FORGET, GIRL KEEP YA HEAD, AND WHEN HE TELLS YOU, YOU AIN'T NOTHING DON'T BELIEVE HIM, AND IF HE CANT LEARN TO LOVE YOU, YOU SHOULD LEAVE HIM" Those words right there speak volumes to me.. Women, you can't let anything deter you from what you want in life especially any unsupportive man that only says he loves you while laying horizontal with you... Let me proceed to another set of his lyrics from that same song... "AND SINCE WE ALL CAME FROM A WOMAN, GOT OUR NAME FROM A WOMAN, AND OUR GAME FROM A WOMAN, I WONDER WHY WE TAKE FROM OUR WOMEN, WHY WE RAPE OUR WOMEN, DO WE HATE OUR WOMEN? I THINK ITS TIME WE KILL FOR OUR WOMEN, TIME TO HEAL OUR WOMEN, BE REAL TO WOMEN, AND IF WE DON'T, WE'LL HAVE A RACE OF BABIES THAT, WILL HATE THE LADIES, THAT MAKE THE BABIES, AND SINCE A MAN CAN'T MAKE ONE, HE HAS NO RIGHT TO TELL A WOMAN WHEN AND WHERE TO CREATE ONE... SO WILL THE REAL MEN GET UP? I KNOW YOU FED UP LADIES, BUT KEEP YA HEAD UP... The first time i heard this verse as a shorty, it hit me like a sack of bricks... There is nothing more important than SHE, HER, FEMININE, WOMAN. These women have endured the same amount of stress and hardship, if not MORE than us men... Therefore, i think they deserve all the praise plus some... We have fallen off the bandwagon which built us.. its not to late for us to catch back up to this bandwagon, put some new wooden wheels on it and keep rolling of into the sunset.. Although this time the wheels need to be SUPPORT based and be STRONGER than before... it all starts with respecting SHE, HER, FEMININE, WOMAN. All of us have mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, we need to start thinking from their point of view... Would you want any man disrespecting any of the WOMEN in your life? I know I don't and won't accept that from anybody, no matter if its my father or my best friend.. So why are you any different? Things can change if we put forth that effort... Let's stop the with BITCH's, and HOE's and SLUT's and BREEZY's and things of that nature.. It may not seem harmful but it is.. These very words become en grained in our minds and our repertoire of words, that's when it becomes second nature.. I know deep down inside, everybody feels this way, its just a matter of digging deep enough to want to make that change, not only for self, but for SHE, HER, FEMININE, WOMAN... Thank YOU for your eyes...