I live in Massachusetts. Yesterday I was returning home from visiting my sister who lives in Vermont. It was a beautiful spring day and since there was no particular reason to hurry I drove back country roads toward home. Somewhere around the State line I caught up to a pickup truck. A quite sharply painted forest green color. Two young men inside. Didn’t think a thing about it.
Without warning the truck driver touched his brakes and slowed down quite drastically. Then, hit the gas pedal, a thunderous roar followed by a cloud of black smoke that made visibility difficult. The truck sped off. The guy had Rolled Coal like it was 2021 again. Perplexed I continued on my way. A mile or so later I caught up to the truck again. The driver of the pickup repeated the same pattern of behavior leaving me in a cloud of dirty, foul smelling air. This happened twice more before their pulling away onto some side street in the next small town.
Rolling Coal in 2024.
This should be a non-event but it wasn’t. It was another example of young men with total disregard for the safety of others and complete disregard for Mother Earth. One hates to judge and generalize but I had to wonder about how they treated women? Or themselves? I don’t ask ‘Why?’ this behavior continues to manifest itself. I know why. I even know how to mitigate this behavior but few listen or care. " ‘Boys will be boys,’ lighten up Tom.”
The climate crisis will mean that average incomes will fall by almost a fifth within the next 26 years compared with what they would have been if there was no such crisis, according to a study that predicts the costs of damage will be six times higher than the price of limiting global heating to 2C. The hefty toll – which is far higher than previous estimates – is already locked into the world economy over the coming decades as a result of the enormous emissions that have been pumped into the atmosphere through the burning of gas, oil, coal and trees, (Betsy Reed, The Guardian, April 2024.)
Yet the latest Pew Research Center Study indicates that only 54% of Americans believe the Climate Crisis is a threat and only 72% of Americans believe the Climate Crisis is happening while 97% of published climate scientists believe the Climate Crisis is happening.
For example, when asked how serious a problem climate change is, women in the U.S. are significantly more likely than American men (by a margin of 17 percentage points) to say it’s a somewhat or very serious problem. Canadian and Australian women’s concern also outweighs that of men in their respective countries, by 13 points and 12 points, respectively.
According to the Pew Research Center the gender disparity also occurs in views of personal harm caused by climate change. American women again differ the most from their male counterparts – 69% of women are concerned it will harm them personally, while fewer than half of men (48%) express this view.
Men don’t get IT. IT being respect for the feminine and all that that infers. And what IT infers is holistic respect for oneself, respect for women, respect for the feminine, respect for the Two-Spirited and respect for Mother Nature. When Mother Nature is destroyed WE destroy ourselves. Why in the world is that so difficult to grasp?
Why can’t universities grasp that when 25% of women on campus are assaulted and or raped everyone suffers!? Women live in fear, even if unconsciously. Why can’t universities grasp IT doesn’t have to be this way? There IS a solution.
Why does our government continue to fund violence instead of attempting to mitigate violence!? I KNOW the answer. Do you know the answer? Do you want to hear the answer?
BECAUSE MONEY WOULD BE LOST IF WE MITIGATED THE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF WOMEN.
BECAUSE POWER WOULD BE LOST IF WE MITIGATED THE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF WOMEN.
BECAUSE WOMEN AND THE FEMININE ARE NOT IMPORTANT, RELATIVE TO MEN AND MANLINESS AND MASCULINITY.
Prove me wrong. You can’t.
And I’m so angry. I’ve been angry for the 45 years of my professional life. And instead of calming down I get angrier every day. And I don’t want to be less angry. I choose to be angry and I continue to DARE any university to stand up and hire me, give me a budget, give me the opportunity to STOP SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE ON YOUR CAMPUS. But no university will. Because women, the feminine and Mother Nature don’t really matter.
Even the so called WOKE female administrators don’t truly care. Like I said before, they are as bad or worse than the men. Why? Because they are sell outs to their own gender and their own feminine tones. I don’t want to hear any bullshit that the education of young men is not in the scope of universities. Apparently the sexual assault and rape of women is within their scope? Jesus H. Christ. Prove me wrong. I dare you.
The ‘Best Practices’ are NOT effective because they are NOT the best practices. All universities keep ‘bench marking’ each other other. It is a riot!! Well, let’s see what Harvard does. If it is good enough for Harvard it is good enough for us.
Harvard Clery Act Statistics: Reported Rapes on Campus: 2020-16. 2021-21. 2022-15.
It is estimated that 12-15 % of rapes and sexual assaults are reported to campus police or police on college campuses and in society on the whole. But yes, let’s benchmark Harvard.
No wonder young men are still Rolling Coal and all that that infers.
I had never heard of this -- and then read that it's intentional: not just the result of poor maintenance. That is (expletive deleted) up.
There will be no peace until there is justice! There will be no justice until we return to the old ways of peacemaking and restitution. Until then our anger provokes war within ourselves and motivates unjust acts upon the innocent.