How do you picture a southern woman ?
Big hair , big ass , big mouth.
Tv and movies have made southern women into caricatures.
There's another kind. Listen to Dash describe women.
If you aren't interested enough or don't have the time just skip to the last three minutes. Why do I talk to this blog like it's a person ? I need to get out more.
There's another kind of southern man beyond what's portrayed in the movies. The kind that knows women and loves them for what they are.
Dash is that kind of man .Every woman wants to be idealized by her man and every man wants to be her knight in shining
armor. To feel like a man.
As to the versions portrayed by the norm...
We all aren't a bunch of incesteous , toothless, ignorant pig fuckers. You know in every culture you have the good and bad in people but from what you see in the media the south is all bad. Don't get me wrong. There are things about it I hate.
Every time I see something on the KKK I get a sick feeling.
I despise tv evangelists but had some of the best times ever at revivals. I got my ass beaten more than once for sneaking out of town to go to a revival meeting. I loved the energy and the music too much too stay away.
Believe me there weren't many white faces in those tents but I never had any trouble because I got into it so much they didn't treat me like I was white. I guess they knew I was lost.
The heat of summer , a tent in the middle of a field , and some preacher up there booming " You don't want to be tried and found wanting." Amen brother. Sing it out.
That's as far as I go with organized religion. Experiences as a child taught me that those men up there with their bibles and collars or robes are just men , nothing else.
We idealize the wrong kind of people in this world. Yet there is so much PC it's gotten ridiculous. One extreme to the other.
The overblown southern accents infuriate me but I can't stand a bad Bronx accent either.
It would be nice just once to see a movie that just has them being southern and not hillbillies.
I wonder if that's possible.
I guess until then people will think what they want but if that way of thinking can be changed , well hell , we could heal the world now couldn't we ?
For now I'll keep putting my little band aids wherever I can.
I'm trying to find parts of Damaged People that aren't about sex but it's not easy. I mean I started writing it as a lark to have some fun with a fantasy and it got out of hand.
I'm thinking it's time to give up on it and try to write something that has some substance.
The only way to get rid of a bad habit it to stop cold turkey. I think I'm afraid that if I give up the fanatasy I might be tempted by the real thing.
Just feeling the need to be held in someone's arms today.
It'll pass , it always does...
Cheers , Amelie
