Chuck D is like the Bible

...you can go to him again and again and find new wisdom each visit. I, like Chuck, never could follow a man with a bottle; he's a baby with a beard and not a real role model. Flash back to the post where my captive attention to real estate reality shows was revealed and hear this: the backlash against feminism is still in full swing and it now manifests itself in the allocation of rooms in a hetersexual home.

When people go looking for houses, it is now run-of-the-mill for the male to demand a space in the new home that can become his "man room," where he can keep his big TV, his keg-erator, and where his buddies can congregate and study their pickup lines. Often the man room is the basement or a second bedroom. It is exclusively the male's domain, too; the woman in the equation often either removes herself from all discussion of the space (as in, "what do you think, honey, can this be your man room?") or else willingly supports the ridiculous notion that grown men need their own space.

I find the very term "man room" to be grating and offensive. It's barely even English: "man room." Me man. Room for me...call it "man room." No girl. No girl. Only boobies! Penis BIG!!

Do the women who allow this kind of assholishness think they're making up for taking away men's space by marrying them? Do they feel bad, like they've pressured their mates into doing something they didn't want to? Is living with a woman such a chore? If it is, then you fucked up! You don't need a room--you need counseling, or better yet, a divorce.

Do the men involved in this crap think that "The Man Show" was a primer on how to act? Do they think they should have special rights and special places, that men ought to be able to demand private space apart from the needs of the family, that they should be able to remove themselves from the family when they choose? "The Man Show," and other such dreck, took the fantasies of men and created a place where the fantasies were the norm. And you know what? It's now the longest-running show in the history of cable TV.

Oh, actually, it was canceled. Years ago. Because fantasies are great in moderation--precisely because they are very different from the ordinary, and definitely different from what one person can do alone. The point of a man's courting years is to find another person who will join in those special fantasies, at special times, and make you a complete sexual and social person. If you isolate yourself from other people, then you made some bad choices and you are a fucking loser (minus the good fucking).

Is this apparent fad an excuse for people who don't really like each other to ignore their problems? Is this a way to never have the "pick up after yourself, dickhead!" discussion? Or the "can I have the remote now, honey?" talk?

And where is the "woman room" in these houses? Here's a hint: there isn't one. What would these selfish men say if you asked them? Is the kitchen "her" domain? The bedroom? Yeah, nothing men like ever happens in either of those places. Are men so pathetic and insecure that they consider the entire house to "belong" to their female Others?

I propose changing the name from "man room" to "big baby nursery." Women need to call it what it is: it's living in mom's basement and having only to show your face at dinner and bedtime. In that sense, these men aren't men at all; they're dependent children and need to be treated as such.