Monday, June 20, 2011

Who Needs Television When You Got Facebook?

I remember as a young girl following in love with the soap operas.  Years later I was thankful because a lot of the things I learned from watching the Guiding Light taught me a lot about corporations and business practices.  My favorite character was Mrs. Chandler's first husband who seemed to be a very astute business man. 

Fast forward about three decades and now I have FACEBOOK.  After reading today's posts I now realize why I stay on FACEBOOK more than I watch television.  It is better than the soap operas I am normally not around at home to watch during the day.

On FACEBOOK you have friends from all walks of life.  My biggest peeve is those women who publicly air their battle with other women over a man.  I don't often see the men stooping to the same level of degradation.

It is normally the same folks bickering over the same what I would deem "worthless man".  One woman has a good job, money, house, car, aka "the whole nine yards" as they normally label it my neck of the woods.  And the apparent other woman is one of very limited means and even less educated.

The drama unfolds with the verbal fights and shenanigans.  The part that bothers me is there is probably some worthless piece of crap somewhere soaking it all up in his belly and making his chest stick out bigger.  Why can't these women come to the realization that a man is going to do what he wants to do regardless?  He's winning and he shouldn't be.  He can go back and forth at his leisure.  Come on now ladies let's let go of the strife whether you are the girlfriend or the wife and make this dude responsible to life.

I pointedly ask myself while reading the posts, what are they thinking letting him cause them to stoop to this type of behavior?  Rather than be the joke thrown in the joker.  I read and reread the posts to see if I missed something.  Now one woman deletes all the rebuttals from the other woman so I miss half the story.  Dang it!

I'm hoping neither woman let's him put them out of character acting like raging animals online over what apparently the only thing he has to offer by the gist of the posts is himself.  It seems as the drama has unfolded one woman he is with when he is down on his money and the other woman he is with when he is down on his luck.  Personally, I think he likes the broke woman the best.  When she gets two cents she is trying to do the world for him.  Not once have I been privy to see him do anything other than bounce back and forth between the two women with no money, job, or other apparent publicly visible resources.

"Ladies, ladies, ladies" in the voice of Nephew Tommie.  Get it together.  Let him go.  Take a photo and update both your profiles with a photo of the two of you showing girls rule.  If he can't handle his business you don't need him.  If he is too weak to stand his own ground and keep his women in check, check him and let him go.  If he has you acting out of character publicly, close the curtains, show over, let him go. 

While he is sitting back grinning at you women acting like felines turn the tables and do the winning instead of whining.   Why drag your name through the criminal justice system taking out peace bonds on women who otherwise would not matter to you?  The resolve for peace needs to come from you digging down emotionally and letting him go peacefully.  Someone bringing that much drama into your life is anything but love or togetherness.  I am not a relationship counselor I've had some spoiled apples in my day. When you create a monster you have to live with it.  Let this one go unfinished.


Oh yea, I dare not comment on the posts.  It is truly none of my business.  But as I read the News Feeds and status updates I can't help not to skip over the juicy stuff.  Now don't get me wrong, my favorite posts are the latest and greatest tech related posts, however, they never get as juicy as the love triangle drama.


I was thinking just today how my elders have been spared from all this modern day drama.  I don't think their heart could stand it.  My great grandma and grandmother always encouraged the females in the family to act as ladies.  I don't think any of the women in my family would stand for a relationship where the woman had to blast a man or his other woman publicly. 


On some days I wish some of the women who blogs and posts I read were the sisters I never had so I could tell them my thoughts in a loving sisterly way.  But they are so vocal in their posts at times I feel I might get cursed out if I send them a message or comment on their post.  I don't want to lose them as a friend.  They have kept it so real in their posts I feel like they're a part of my circle.

A true man doesn't act in a manner where he would have his lady have to act out of character under any circumstance.  Which reminds me of my second favorite poster who is always out of diapers, milk, and a man when she has no money.  Things follow a pattern, around the first few days of the month she is happy as can be but towards the end of the month she is putting everyone on blast for not being a provider.  I want to say so bad don't you realize you have a worthless man if the only time he comes around is when "you" have money, and it is just too apparent from your posts.  Infidelity once discovered used to be settled with a few black eyes which healed up after a few days.  Nowadays the black eyes linger in cyberspace.

Blame it on rainy days and Mondays and today just so happened to encompass both.  I was going to check outside to see if it was a double full moon because the drama seems to have escalated to a point of full blown.

Lord forgive me for this one.  This is Lynne's Lines.  Don't get it twisted I'm not throwing no stones because I'm not living in a glass house.  The juice seems to be flowing all around today offline, online, and everywhere.
I'm claiming it, I'm waking up to a better day tomorrow for me and my friends.  LOL!