Don’t cheat- unless your wife doesn’t put out

I’m still alive, if you can believe that. Things have been so hectic around here lately. Don’t worry, though, I’m not going to bore you with the mundane details.

I did have an interesting conversation with TheMan’s women folk. We were all up at Millie’s stepmother’s house (you remember that Millie’s dad just got put in a nursing home?). Well, Hildie (the stepmother/stepgrandmother) was telling how her granddaughter left her husband after finding him with another woman. But she wasn’t angry with the granddaughter’s philandering husband. What galled her was that her granddaughter refused to take him back even after he apologized! I told her that I’d be the same way. Sorry, but an apology ain’t gonna cut with me. That’s when the conversation evolved into the most asinine shit I’d ever heard.

TheMan’s female relatives began lecturing me on how it’s appropriate and expected that a man go find some other tail when his wife’s not putting out. “A man’s got to have sex!”, they told me. I laughed. “If the husband can’t keep his penis to himself, then he shouldn’t expect his wife to stay around. So, if TheMan can’t get an erection because of prostrate surgery, or something like that, it would be all right for me to take a boy toy?” Gasp! Shock! Faint! OMG! Millie looks me straight in the eye and says:

“You don’t need sex like he does. It’s a sin for you to cheat on your husband.”

That’s when I pretty much fell on the floor pissing myself in laughter. I have read that people thought like this in the past but I was pretty sure that was hundreds of years ago. Boy, was I wrong! I told them all that if my husband felt he needed to get sexed up by some hussy other than me then he could file for divorce, and don’t expect me to be nice about the whole situation. I then informed them that women are designed, just like men, to enjoy sex and if they didn’t know that then someone wasn’t giving it to them right. Cue the big eyeballs and dropped jaws of shock. TheMan’s aunt promptly asked me “You’re a feminist, aren’t you?”

Oh, for the love of any and all gods… I don’t think I laughed so hard in months. I have never, ever in all of my life actually heard a woman say the things these so-called classy and educated women were saying about women, sex, and male infidelity. I grew up knowing not only my grandmother, but my great-grandmother and great-great grandmother and none of them ever said that kind of shit to me. I was rolling. It was comedy to me, but oh-so serious to them. Very funny. At any rate, I made one more observation: “The Bible says “Thou shalt not commit adultery”, it doesn’t say “Thou shalt not commit adultery unless your wife isn’t putting out, in which case take as many harlots as you want- but keep in mind this only applies to men”. What’s your argument about that?” Fuckola, I got to hear some stories about some guy’s wife who couldn’t have babies so he had babies with the maid– Her name was Ruth, I think. Anyway, I lost that battle. What can I say? I was outnumbered three to one. And those chicks can get loud. Good grief. Don’t even try to mention the risk of the unfaithful party bringing home something nasty. They won’t hear of it. Wow.

Still, I hold that if I ever caught TheMan dipping into someone else’s ink well we’d be splitsville. Period. And to me it’s not the part that he didn’t love me enough to keep it at home, it’s the fact that he wouldn’t love me enough to keep me safe. There’s the dangers of STDs and psycho women who will boil rabbits on the fucking stove. No lie. If he would do that to me then I don’t want him. And if he wants to play the field, more power to him, there are plenty of women that will be happy to play with him. But he needs to let me go because I’ll be looking for something better. Ya know?

I still can’t get over how they were thinking though. I was completely amazed. Luckily, Hildie was the only one with any daughters and they are both way past their prime (though, from the way it sounds, somehow a feminist (heh) got into her family line. Oh the horror!). The only female that Millie could possibly pass that bullshit down to is my Baby and, well, she’s got me for a mother- Millie will lose that battle. Baby won’t be a roll over and take the abuse because she’s female kind of woman. I can completely understand, though, the kind of abuse and humiliation my feminist foremothers bore to bring women in this country to a place where we don’t have to accept that our men are going to cheat on us, or beat on us, or be complete fuckwads. No matter how you feel about radical feminists, you should still be thankful that it was feminists that brought us out of place where that kind of thinking was the norm.

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    10 Comments

    1. Pink (34 comments.)
      Posted February 22, 2007 at 2:28 pm | Permalink

      have i mentioned how fabulous i think you are? how about how funny? i swear, if hilary clinton was anything like you, jinxi, i’d vote for her to be the new president of the united states of confusion.

      oh, but i have to disagree - if my man was dipping his pen into another inkwell, then i’d have to shoot his pen off, sick my brothers and cousins on him - southern revenge style - then my mother, then i’d divorce his ass and take him for everything he’s worth.

      did i mention that southern belles may look sweet and innocent but we have a mean streak if someone pisses us off too much?

    2. Paula (110 comments.)
      Posted February 22, 2007 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

      I don’t have such black/white views on cheating, JJ, but they aren’t sexist either. I do think cheating is sometimes justified - but that would be for either husband or wife, not just the man. Your relatives sound quite the hoot though! (I probably have some like that in Ohio too, but I never see them.)

    3. Awaiting
      Posted February 23, 2007 at 12:25 am | Permalink

      I have mixed feelings too…although I am one who seeking relationship advice is highly NOT recommended. I never caught my husband cheating, but I suspected it. And while seperated, he had tons of fun.

      I’m messed up….dang, did I have a point to this. I can’t remember. I’m having flashbacks and thinking that I need to take the pen from the inkwell and break it. Darn pens!

    4. Looney (50 comments.)
      Posted February 23, 2007 at 3:08 am | Permalink

      LOL, OMG!!! I personally am on a one strike plan here at home. That’s been the case from day one, and I agree with it. We made our commitment for only each other and that’s it. There aren’t exceptions. If there are physical problems with one of us, then it is OUR problem to work out, even if I’m not getting laid in the process. And I’m not just saying that either. There have been times due to medical issues, and it’s no fun, but it’s what we work through together.

      She’s on a one strike with me too. Except I sometimes think I would take her back, once anyway… I don’t know why I think that, but it seems it would take a whole helluva lot of hell to make me want to finish my life without her by my side…

    5. Schadenfreude (50 comments.)
      Posted February 23, 2007 at 8:35 am | Permalink

      JJ, between your writing and the content I was constantly shifting back and forth between hilarity and disbelief.

      Me and the Mrs, have a zero-tolerance policy that goes both ways. but if Johnny Depp wanted to do her, I could let that slide, provided Scarlett Johansson would give me a go. Other than that, it’s just us. And if she strays with someone other than her hearthrob without getting my okay first, I wouldn’t divorce her. I’d make her life a living guilt ridden torturous hell for about 6 months with the vague possibility I might forgive her. and then divorce her. I’d expect the same treatment from her.

      And as for men needing it differently than women, I’d say the average man probably thinks about and wants sex more than the average woman, but that’s why God invented lubriderm. No need to cheat — that’s just weak sauce.

    6. JennyJinx
      Posted February 23, 2007 at 12:53 pm | Permalink

      Vote for me? Ain’t no way I’d take that job. I’d be too in tune with the average citizen (I’d hope) and my advisors would all quit in frustration. I mean, they’d be thinking of the next election and I’d be like “Dude, one day at a time! C’mon!” Nope, couldn’t do it.

      As for justifiable cheating, no, I don’t see it that way. If a man or woman doesn’t feel happy in their marriage/relationship then they need to discuss with their partner what needs to be done about it. If one person feels the need to bring in someone else to satisfy them and there is mutual agreement among all involved parties, well, that isn’t really cheating, is it? Because everyone knows what’s going on and everyone’s fine with it; no one is being kept in the dark.

      Cheating, to me, is not so much about the sexing on the side, as it is about the lies and disrespect. Cheating requires lying and it also puts the other person’s health and safety in danger. I mentioned the boiling rabbit, which is almost comical, but that kind of stuff really does happen. One of the many times my ex cheated on me involved a psycho chick who would come banging on my door in the middle of the night wanting to fight me. That could have easily gone really bad. Then, of course, there’s the dangers of std’s, AIDS, etc. In the heat of the moment, the cheater loses sight of the consequences and ultimately brings that home to his/her partner. To go further, there’s the danger of pregnancy. Then the cheating directly affects children, of the marriage and/or of the affair.

      At any rate, I have a one strike policy with TheMan, too. For all of the reasons I’ve listed above. And because if I’m not good enough for whatever reason then he needs to hit the road. Oh, and I would never cheat either. I might fantasize about this person or that, but that’s it. Lying is not my style. I’m not against divorce, so I wouldn’t have any problem hitting the road myself, if the situation would ever arise and if I would allow that situation to fester to the point where my heart would be stolen.

      One more thing, I didn’t say that women think about sex the same way that men do. I said that we, too, enjoy it- maybe in different ways and maybe not as often- but we do like it and we should be allowed to like it. And those, um, ladies haven’t learned how to like, I’m thinking.

      Good Gods, this comment is long. I’m out.

    7. Chaos Control (1 comments.)
      Posted February 25, 2007 at 6:17 pm | Permalink

      Like you, I had heard that people had thought like that in the past. Just as scarey as the fact that there are still people that think like this today (as evidenced in your post), is the fact that these same people can vote! Terrifying. Simply terrifying!!

    8. JennyJinx
      Posted February 25, 2007 at 7:09 pm | Permalink

      Welcome, Chaos! Thanks for the visit.

      Can you believe it? Like I said, though, luckily these three won’t be influencing any future women with their evil Victorian voo-doo. At least I can be thankful for that. Bah!

    9. Claudia
      Posted March 7, 2007 at 2:34 pm | Permalink

      I don’t think so black and white either anymore… especially when children are involved. But women have to know that there are men out there that don’t cheat and not to settle..

    10. JennyJinx
      Posted March 8, 2007 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

      Children adapt. They have to. If one partner endangers another by sleeping around (and in my mind it is endangerment for all the reasons I mentioned above) then that partner needs to go. We live in a me-me-me society and kids are learning that. It’s even worse when they see one of their parents hurt by the other and he/she gets away with it. And unless they’re infants, they know. They know the second tension builds between their parents. It’s patterns like these that kids see that makes them grow up and think it’s ok to do themselve. Just my 2¢.

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