I may or may not have told you, but I'm looking for a job. With a child barely 17 weeks old
and another already in the oven, it's time to settle back down into reality. The traveling
that I have done over the last 14 months have been wonderful. Memphis was cool. The
plains of Kansas, witnessed going 70 on the interstate, and, of course, the mountains of
Colorado, were all wonderful and I hope to be able to go back to these places soon. But for now, the "real world" beckons.

So one of the first places I went to apply was a certain movie theater in Pineville. Since it
has been a while since the last time I worked, I reasoned that getting a little job such as a
movie theater, bookstore or record store may be the way to go at first. And plus, I want to
work somewhere that will let me keep my hair long.

So I pull my hair back into a neat ponytail, go fill out an application and then talk to one
of the theater managers. He seems to take a liking to me and to my application. That's
when he says, "Of course, we do have a policy that the guys must keep their hair cropped
short. Will you have a problem with that?"

Well, it's obvious to me that I've gotten job. Which is cool. I basically looked for one day and found a job I could accept. Except that now, they want me to cut my hair. "Well," I reply. "I have wondered what I would do if it came to that. And I guess I'd cut it if I had to."

So I accepted the job. That was this past Monday, the first of May. I don't have to start
until next Tuesday, the ninth of May. Meanwhile, I'm marking off the days until my hair is gone not unlike an innocent man on death row who is counting the days until he makes
that one last walk.

And it leads me to question the policy. Why must a guy have short, cropped hair when a
woman can have hair as long as she likes it? In fact, I would bet that the longer a woman
has her hair and the better it looks, the more likely she is to be hired. In other words, Sinead O'Connor may have a hard time finding honest work in this country.

There's some sort of prejudice at work here. Perhaps the longer a man's hair is, the
more feminine some people think he looks. And the more feminine a man is, the more gay
he must be. These companies are almost owned by middle aged or older men, men who
probably get  self conscious every time a guy with a ear ring walks up behind them in a
grocery store line. (It's also against the rules at this company for a guy to have any kind of
ear ring, even a nice, conservative stud in the "straight ear.")

You know, I don't think it's a big problem across the nation of homosexual men walking
up behind a straight man in a check out line, then pulling down his pants and sticking his dick up the other guys ass before anyone knows what's going on. Correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just out of the loop on this one. But I've not heard a single instance of this happening.

I still haven't fully decided whether to actually take this job. There are a few bonuses. For
starters, I get to see free movies. Since Pauly Shore doesn't have a movie coming out soon, this is an added bonus. Also, the hours coordinate nicely with that of my wife. We
would not have to find a baby sitter for Michael except for maybe once every week or two.
But there has been once in my life when I cut my hair because someone else wanted me
too. And that's ridiculous. It's my hair. As long as I keep it neat and clean, I should be
able to have it down to my ass if I want to.

Cy Sperling can go fuck himself for all I care.

Of course, men get it from all corners. I haven't written about the Elian Gonzalous controversy because it's everywhere. Who needs to hear another news piece of that kid? But consider for a moment the facts of the case. His mother takes him from the home he shared with his father. (His parents were divorced, I remind you.) She puts him on a boat in the middle of the night even though neither she nor her son can swim, then hopes to make it the 90 miles to the Florida coast. And why does she do this? Not for the freedom that America could offer, as some would have you to believe, but so she and Elian could be with her new lover, a man who made it his job to bring Cuban refugees to this country.

Now, I ask you, if these facts were all the same with but one exception, that being that it
was his father that did this and not his mother, would Elian have been in the States for
even five days, much less five months? If it had been his mother left behind and pleading
for the return of her son, I propose to you that Elian would long ago be where he should
be. And that is with his surviving parent. But because his father is the surviving parent
and not the mother, this "custody battle" has taken on huge proportions and in many
ways has revived the official state religion of the United States, anti-communism.

Now I ask you: where are the family values in wanting to seperate father and son? Dan Quayle, William Bennett and their wacko cronies can rail against fictional situation comedies, but this is real life here. The boy needs to be with his father.

But there's more.

There are cases on the books where a father will find out that the child his wife or
girlfriend passed off to him as being his was, in reality, not his child. This is sometimes
discovered through routine DNA tests through a divorce. Other times the father will begin
to question whether the child is his or not. Many times, the mother knows or at least
suspects that the child does not belong to the man she claims it does. In other words, she
lies about the paternity. (Let's face it. If you fuck one man one day, then fuck another the next and get pregnant, there's a fifty percent chance that the man you want to be the father of the baby won't be.) So the man goes to court to get out of the child support payments
and guess what happens?

The court routinely rules that the child's best interests out weigh the financial health of
the man and orders the man, who now knows that the child is not his, that he must still
pay support for the child. This is wrong. The courts talk about the well being of the child
but only includes his or her financial status in that equation. But the lesson this child can take from this is that if you lie and even if you get caught in that lie, you still win. The
mother knowingly lied to the man, to the child and to everyone in her life, but she still gets to keep her reward, that is, the money coming in every month for child support. Now it's a bad thing that the child has to suffer this way. But guess what? Shit happens. And if you fuck with the system and get caught, you must pay the consequences, even if innocent parties will get hurt.

How fair is this?

Do we really live in a world where the man is seen as nothing more than a buffoon?
Someone to bring home the check? Someone to keep his hair cropped and his penis out of
another man's anus? Oh and if his child is kidnapped by the mother who takes the child to a foreign country, well, you got to leave the child there with his crazy cousin and alcoholic uncle? Why? Because we said so. Because you're a man and you don't mean as much to the child or have as much influence on him as his mother.

And we won't even get into the way fatehrs are treated in custody cases. Every other weekend and two weeks a summer? Well, just as long as you make that monthly payment, there won't be a problem here.

I imagine there are some of you out there who are thinking I'm just another one of these
Limbaugh didiots, another angry, white male railing at the femi-nazis, the tree huggers
and the brothers. It's not like that at all. You'll never hear me, a white, southern male,
claim to be the true minority in America now. What I am saying is that there is discrimination, prejudices and out right moronic policies out there and that these sometimes are aimed at me and my kind.

Now, where's a good piece of straight male ass at the nearby Wal Mart? I might just
have to bend him over in the express lane.
 

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