The gender known as females refer to themselves as women. But honestly — women aren't women no more. And we're not talking about learning how to cook, clean and nurture, although these are things, just as men should know how to do. I’m not referring to the positions that women currently hold that were once out of reach and only reserved for men.

I do believe that women should be in positions of power and authority; women do have the potential. However, women nowadays don't look like women. They don't sound feminine. They don't act feminine. There was a time when women had self-respect. Sure, there are many women out there who hold themselves to their own standards and that is respectable.

Unfortunately, today a lot of women don’t respect themselves. They disrespect their bodies and minds, and somehow still feel it acceptable to demand respect from others. And to some degree this applies to some men as well.

If every man in the world was dead, and one somehow survives, humanity will survive too. Another scenario similar to this would be that could be wiped out but there would still be the insurance of frozen sperm.

There are many cases in which we can see woman allowing to be disrespected or violated. This may sound absurd, but I believe it to be true. There are women out there who are lack so much respect for themselves that they go out of their way to seek out men who will disrespect them and treat them like sh*t or situations in which they will embarrass themselves or put themselves in a disgusting mess.

I don’t know what it is about women that had a rough childhood growing up, with neglecting parents or went through stressful or frightening experiences, but it is intriguing. This is not to say that they were f*cked up in the head, they were girls that matured at a younger age because their life demanded them to do so. They were girls that grew thick skin and weren’t keen on letting others — especially men — into their lives. It most likely had to do with the great challenge that they presented. Not only were they reluctant to open themselves up to others, they were reluctant in allowing themselves to love.

It almost always comes down to sex, doesn’t it? We see sex as a release — a release of stress, of tension, a release of everything that is weighing down on our minds or our souls. I’m all for going out there, meeting and getting to know people intimately. If you’re single, don’t have commitments to others and go into such relationships honestly, then it’s all harmless fun. However, it’s the reasons why you choose to have sex regularly with different partners and the energy or mentality while in the throes of it all, that matters most.

Many men and women have regular casual sex with ever-changing partners and do so while having respect for themselves and for those they are engaged with, but sex does tend to leave the harshest and deepest cuts.

There’s such an enormous amount of pressure on us coming from outside forces that there is no shortage of reasons why people break or lose control. Some resort to drugs. Some to sex. Some to self-mutilation — there is a long list of dysfunctional behaviors that result from having self-hatred.

Women have it difficult because no matter what people may say or believe, the fact remains that women continue to be treated differently in this world; they are not allowed all the same opportunities and are often looked upon as objects and/or possessions. They are disrespected, belittled, shamed publicly and trained to believe that this sort of treatment, this sort of life that they are exposed to, is acceptable. If you tell a person they are a piece of sh*t for long enough, they’ll start to believe it themselves.

Women aren’t women anymore. They were robbed of that right by the constructs of society over thousands of years. Many will argue that things have gotten better for women, that they are being treated more fairly and equally. In some aspects, sure. However, if you look at the level of self-respect that many, if not most, women have for themselves, you will notice a decrease over the years.

Once upon a time, women had no choice but to do as they were told. Once upon a time, they were not allowed to be their own people, to have and to share their thoughts, to have their opinions known, to make a difference in the world. Now they do. Yet, this illusion of equality that they are forced to believe as a reality whispers to them that they are equals, that they are just as important as the male population, while holding onto their ankles, making sure they don’t drift up too close to the surface.

There are those women that are able to stay strong and resist the profound influence that is our mainstream western culture — but they shouldn’t have to struggle more than any man. I have heard men complain about the women of our generation. Honestly — they have a point…but they are more than likely part of the problem to begin with.