My Company vs My Freedom

What happened to personal freedoms, and why do some people only complain about a few, while they watched others be taken as they stood by and “dealt with it” as a nation? People are going “crazy” over the Supreme Court ruling against Birth Control provisions by companies who chose our healthcare for us in this country. I am in NO WAY for the ruling, but it is the same way it is legal for a company to fire an employee who smokes cigarettes now.

Why no uproar about that one when it started the "slippery slope"? Why no uproar 30 years ago when drug testing became the normal practice among companies? It is a “racket” where companies spend in the neighborhood of Twenty Billion Dollars a year to perform these tests, and it has only been shown to recoup a few million dollars at best. Do they care? No. Why? Because your company has investments in these same testing companies.

Studies have shown that by the time a person needs to be tested for suspicion; the signs have started and been in place for some time. No shows, lateness etc… However, all of us as employees need to pay for the mistakes and decisions of a few. The mistakes of the abuser need to regulate my life. The “perceived ills” of a “woman who may ABUSE birth control” (whatever that means) also should be regulated in this country?

Isn’t it my right to smoke? If it is legal can I not participate? Isn’t sex legal in this nation? Is it a company’s right to tell either of those groups what to do or not do with their personal body? If it is legal can you persecute me for it just to make YOUR morals feel better? Why is a company allowed to take a life insurance policy out on me with themselves as beneficiaries?

Why must a man who shows his face on TV in Washington State showing a momentous occasion be fired for partaking in a currently LEGAL activity?

When is the revolt against this garbage we allow going to begin? Voters, employees and customers all have one thing in common: They vote with their feet. If you do not like a company you quit, if you do not like a product you do not buy a product, if you do not like a political stance you move your feet to the other side. I am starting to wonder when we the people are going to start banding together in the name of good for all of us and not hatred for all the other guy has and does. When is it going to be time to take back our healthcare, our personal decisions and our freedom?

Corporations are not people.

No Corporation has the right to tell any of us what to or not to do as long as we aren't committing armed robbery against them.

"New" Feminism

I am becoming more and more confused with the current and more modern strain of Feminism that has manifested itself in the last several years. Can someone explain it to me? I have seen serious discussion; comedy and just light hearted banter lately revolve around a new form of Feminism, a type of which I was not familiar. As a man, I am all for women’s rights, equal pay for equal work, reproductive rights… I am sure I missed something, but you get my point. As a Liberal, I do believe women should have equality.

What I am speaking of is the new outcry from women that they face a “sexual gauntlet” every day of their lives when dealing with men. That each day spent in the company of a male is a day of threat, likely violence, constant harassment, ogling, and assault in many forms, innuendo, boorish behavior and abhorrent sexual advances at any given moment. In the next breath you may hear the same woman decry the fact that she doesn’t feel pretty, wanted, needed, loved, sexually or physically “blessed” as she perceives her female counterparts to be, and would like all of that to change immediately as well. You may hear her talk about “50 Shades of Grey” or “Twilight” as if she were about to have an orgasm in front of you, but make mention of her actions, and you are a letch or misogynist.

I am becoming more and more confused at how a gender can want to be attractive, but not want to be told. Why go through the motions of getting up, showered, dressed and made up if you do not want attention? Why attest need for good sexual relations and to be desired, but protest when that desire shows itself in a male’s approach to you. The Sexes are sexual in nature, all studies show it to be true, but WOMEN reserve the right to turn down. Yet as a man, if I see something in you, be it physical or not, am I to keep my mouth shut until you decide you want me? Men would be terminally alone if life worked in that manner, and women would be more hateful than they ever were.

I also am getting confused about the “we don’t need your help” types in all of this. Guess what: you do need my help. You need sympathetic men to your cause or you will get nowhere. How did the ERA work without male support? Suffrage? Didn’t Hobby Lobby just get their way in lieu of YOUR wants and needs? Yeah, please stop acting as though you can go it alone, we need you and you need us. Without each other we all die as a species.

Can someone please explain this to me?