For the first time in weeks, I was not up for the sunrise either because I was already or still up. The sun presented itself this morning during my slumber. A lot has happened this week. Clyde is chomping at the bit. Grab your cuppa and snuggle into a rocker. Let’s talk.
Books
Unless you have been in a coma or not on any social media platform this week, you heard the announcement I published a new book this week. The numbered copies are only available to the first hundred buyers. When I am dead, it will make them collector’s items. IJS
Click to grab your copy!
Another book which went to press is from a new RedmundPro author, Gordon Andrews. You should be seeing him around in due course with his book Love Letters From Oz. I worked on the inside and outside of this one. Liz and I burnt a gallon of midnight oil to finish the cover.
If you have not been out to see where I have been this week, you missed some great interviews about some varied subjects…just like my growing book collection. Be sure to stop by the Book Tour to see where I will be appearing next week. Below the calendar are the direct links to where I have been.
I am on track for the April release of Charitable Darkness, the sequel to Darkness Introduced. For all of you claiming I am prolific… guilty. Not like this should be a surprise…
Roots
Over the next few weeks, The M3 Blog is returning to its roots. We will be discussing some money matters and some of the fundamentals of Mate and Quaint. For the newcomers, stop by The M3 Players to see who we discuss. You know them, just perhaps by different names.
There are a few who are going to be contributing to this production. Clyde is going to kick off a new series tonight and Laurie Childree, author of Moments, Money & Memories, will be posting. If you would like more details on how to contribute, grab the SIB through the Ask Momma page.
Right Turn, Clyde!
One subject which has been stuck in the orang’s craw has been the inequity between the sexes. No, we are not going on an ape-led feminazi march. No, we are not discussing equal opportunity. No, we are not even going to discuss holding doors open.
Clyde has a problem with gender roles. With the sole exception of giving birth, there is theoretically nothing to which one gender may lay specific claim. (Please hold all comments about Thomas. Please.)
Each society chooses its margin for which sex will take on which roles. This standard applies to all animals, not merely humans.
Felines: The male serves the purpose of protection of the pride and sire. The females do all the work, from birth to hunt.
Bees: Females run the entire hive from production to mating and push the drones out to freeze in the winter when food stores are low. They save just enough hormone to produce more males in the spring to begin the fertilization process again.
Female
Anglerfish: Males are born without a digestive system. They attach to a females, literally, by biting and releasing an enzyme which melts her skin and his body. Like a tumor on her body, the remains of the male produce hormones when insemination time rolls around. Anglerfish are all female.
But he said…
Where in the course of humanity did someone decide the testosterone vehicles were the head of everything? Why am I seeing no hands raised? Oh, right. There is no answer to this question because it is not a universal human truth.
The Mosuo of China are a completely matriarchal society. Their language has no words for father or husband, as marriage is not a concept they employ.
The Iroquois are a matriarchal tribe. While their sachems (chiefs) are men, the women decide who is chief. He is a lot like the Queen of England.
The Marumakkathayam are an Indian culture whose matrilinear practices allow only women to own land.
In the Minankabau society of Sumatra, the man is delivered to his new bride with his dowry… by her women kin.
Yeah, but…
Why do we not recognize the names of the matriarchal societies? Unlike patriarchal societies, which are definitive in their stance men rule over women, matriarchal societies are better described by their employment of gylany, which is an egalitarian state promoting equality rather than rule.
Enter Ape
What has Clyde’s knickers in a knot is the notion men and women should have the cajones to dictate to one another who should be in what role based solely on their genitalia. For example(s)…
Woman’s Work
Really? Experience shows men are equally equipped to such tasks as sewing (Yves St. Laurent), cooking (Emeril Lagasse) and cleaning (Jack Bates).
Man’s Job
Really? Experience shows women are equally equipped to such professions as astronautics (Sunita Williams), comedy (Wanda Sykes) and math (Danica McKellar, yes, Winnie Cooper).
Every field is littered with examples of men and women who excelled in areas cordoned off for one gender, specifically the one opposite their own.
So…
If men and women can do the same jobs, why do we as a race still abide the discriminatory behavior of segregating ourselves to the exclusion of the results possible with a gylanic society in which men and women are on equal enough footing to produce better living arrangements for everyone involved?
It is enough to make an ape wonder.
Until next time,
I hope you have had a terrific week, caught this month’s Hot Flash and are ready to face a new week with a grin. Answer any of the questions Clyde brought to the table. Do bear in mind I will curtail arguments about religion and politics on the basis it offends far more than it convinces.
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El Guapo
/ March 2, 2013Congrats on the growing Remund lineup!
I think the only reason men are generally in charge is because we can easily pee standing up.
Other than that, I can’t think of any other reason.
(Yes, I decided to go for the bottom of the heap immediately.) 😉
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Noeleen
/ March 2, 2013You’re hilarious El Guapo!
pee standing up… in charge…
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Red
/ March 3, 2013Urinal diving to start. Hmm. I thought for sure the first one we would get is the two headed theory. But that one is just as plausible.
Lizzie Cracked
/ March 3, 2013I can pee standing up… and aim too… and I am not in charge..oh..wait..i dont wanna be either ..uh….soooooo men are generally in charge because ….we let them think they are… you know the real deal Guapman 🙂 and ..say hi to TMWGITU …
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Red
/ March 3, 2013Bwahaha! Sweet.
El Guapo
/ March 3, 2013Shh!!! Don’t shatter the illusion!!!
(TMWGITU says hi.)
(Hmph.)
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Lizzie Cracked
/ March 3, 2013which? me peeing or you in charge? oh must be the men in charge cause i promise you… i can do it… no illusion at all 😉 TMWGITU likes me b…no i wont go there…i am kidding and that would be mean after laying the peeing thing on ya.. but hey i had to look at the angel fish so we are all properly traumatized i think? this might call for…yellow leirderhosen…or GASP Pete Rose… Why? beats me… you decide you are in charge ..remember ?? 😛
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El Guapo
/ March 3, 2013I’m pretty sure you and Ginger forced e to be in charge. It was never my idea!
I’m just this guy, remember?
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Red
/ March 3, 2013Oh sure it was. Women are always convincing men it was their idea.
Red
/ March 3, 2013I vote for lederhosen.
Lizzie Cracked
/ March 3, 2013(do you think they bought it? pretty good cover huh? ) 🙂
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Binky
/ March 2, 2013Congratulations on the new book, Red.What is this number 100?
I prefer to specialize in chocolate eating and rocket building. Every society needs those kind of people.
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Red
/ March 3, 2013At the rate I am going, I will be there just before the end of the decade 🙂
Binky
/ March 3, 2013I’ll put my money on the end of next year!
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Red
/ March 6, 2013I would have to take off a few more weeks!
Noeleen
/ March 2, 2013After I read ‘testosterone vehicles’, I couldn’t forget those words!
tee hee, ah vehicles…
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Red
/ March 3, 2013You will like the Hot Flash this week, then. I was talking testosterone in that one as well! xxx
raymond alexander kukkee
/ March 2, 2013Humanity has never been particularly a) clever or b) logical resulting in the typical mismanagement of pretty much everything that could make life, social and living arrangements, productivity et al better for all concerned. Patriarchal societies today are a sad mess of fanaticism; surely any replacement including matriarchal rule entertaining gylany would be huge improvement.
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Red
/ March 3, 2013I am against rule altogether. Gylany is truly the best solution to all of it. I am not humble in that opinion in the slightest.
MJ Logan
/ March 2, 2013But but but…
😛 ffftttt.
Interestingly, my experience is that women are better at finishing drywall, while men are better at installing it. I’m not sure WHY that is, just personal experience. Frankly, I don’t care if someone has either set of gnads or both, if they can do the job, perform the skill, or delegate it to someone else, they’re hired as long as they don’t have purple stripes bordered by green dots. Yellow dots are fine of course, as long as they are not absurdly large.
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Red
/ March 3, 2013Because women float better. Bwahahah. I could not pass that door. And the green dots inevitably are that loud, glow-in-the-dark neon which gives everyone a headache.
MJ Logan
/ March 3, 2013Float better. Didn’t see that coming. Nope.
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Red
/ March 3, 2013*Curtsies sweetly*….still giggling.
Valentine Logar
/ March 2, 2013I suspect in some long distant past it had to do with war, protection of the species and physical strength.
Just what I suspect though.
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Red
/ March 3, 2013And all I can say is … Amazon, Isis, Hecate, Athena…I could go on you know…
Lizzie Cracked
/ March 3, 2013something like… the women figured out right quick what it was about so sent the men out telling them it made them…yea,… ok ..i can see it Val.. totally see it… 😉
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John McDevitt
/ March 2, 2013Twists my knickers too. Irony: If men are smart enough to design clothes washers, why are they too dumb to fill that same machine with clothes, add detergent, close the lid and turn it on?
I do believe that the only being we should be ruling is our self. I could never wrap my mind around ruling and power over others.
I also believe that the majority thinks rulers and leaders are synonyms. NOT. I push my meager pile of chips forward and place them all on leadership.
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Red
/ March 3, 2013I know, right? You are in the majority here. Rule sucks. Leadership rocks. There is a huge difference between a leader and a boss. Glad you came by to sound off on this one.
Lizzie Cracked
/ March 3, 2013I am biting my tongue.. i have such a wonderful argument ..but ..and dont falll off your seats folks.. i will abide by the rules…. hee hee… where is the SIB link again? bwahahahaahaha!
love you much – coulda really really done without the angel fish image….now it is stuk with the damn snake … and the dog.. ug.. things i want to forget but will never stop haunting me… MUAH!
♥ Lizzie
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Red
/ March 3, 2013*giggles madly* I love when ppl say, “He is just creepy,” when they see anglerfish. I always laugh and say, “You mean she, right?” Bwahahaha.
Lizzie Cracked
/ March 3, 2013oh yea…..that is the she..well all i can say is i am damn happy i am not an angel fish.. who would want a male hanging on you and expecting you to take ca…r..e…. never mind… i am glad i am not one 😉
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Red
/ March 3, 2013R.O.F.L.M.A.O.
Red
/ March 3, 2013And you really have to click the anglerfish link. I promised you will laugh until you cry.
jenlefeverwood
/ March 3, 2013This was all quite fabulous!! And so funny!! I needed this tonight.. a good laugh!! Thank you!!
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Red
/ March 3, 2013Scroll around. There are plenty of fun things to find. Welcome.
Gail Thornton
/ March 3, 2013I was an anglerfish in a previous morphdom. The tumor on me was so annoying I scratched it off on a rock, since I had balls of my own.
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Red
/ March 3, 2013I have always had balls, but I do not think I was ever an anglerfish 😉