What’s Really Wrong
Unless you’ve been completely living under a rock for the last week, week and a half, this whole Harvey Weinstein, or Weinstein, or however you say the POS’s name, this sexual harassment scandal. It got me thinking. It really kinda, well kinda, kinda is just like saying someone’s kinda pregnant, but it pissed me off. You’ve got all these talking heads out there that are talking about how it was disgraceful news, and it is appalling to all those whose work he championed. It’s indefensible. They’ve got people deeply disturbed. My heart goes out. And it’s like, yeah, of course your heart goes out, and of course we’re disturbed. I mean, for crying out loud, he doesn’t deserve to be under my shoe.
When people say, “I hope. I hope this stops and this thing from happening” or “I hope this changes the paradigm or shifts the paradigm so this doesn’t happen anymore.” It’s like holy crap, people. What rock do you live under? That, “I hope.” Let’s change this a little bit. Let’s change it to, what are you going to actually do to try and stop this? That’s what we should be doing. It’s not, “I hope this doesn’t happen again.” You can hope in one hand and crap in the other and I can bet you money which one’s gonna fill first, right?
This hoping thing. This thing speaking out. That’s gonna stop it. No, speaking out isn’t gonna stop it. Standing up is gonna stop it. Manning up for men in positions … people are saying, “Oh, I never saw this coming. Didn’t see this coming.” Bullshit. There’s been signs and symptoms from this man that people just chose to overlook. I mean, let’s call a spade a spade here. What people are is they’re afraid to stand up and say something. They’re afraid to ask a question. They’re afraid to put themselves in a position of vulnerability for someone else, because they fear they’re gonna be made fun of, or that they’re wrong. Who cares if you’re wrong? If you’re wrong, you’re wrong. But, if you have an inkling that something like this is going on, you gotta do it.
We’ve got men, we’ve got women, we’ve got boys, and we’ve got girls that are being abused, that are being sexually abused, that are being mistreated every single day in this country. The statistics are all over the board. You can’t really find one there really is consistent with anything from one to another. But, they say it’s like a quarter of the population has been or will be. That’s too many. That’s 25% too many in my mind.
I wrote a book. It’s called Man Up. In this book, I talk about manning up as a father, manning up as a husband, manning up in all these different areas of our life. One of the ways that we, when we look at okay, what can I do? How can I stop this from happening? What change can I possibly make in this world? I’ll tell you right now. If you’re a dad, the change you can make is speaking into your son’s life. It’s raising him the right way so number one, that he respects people, women, respects others other than himself. That is how you make a difference. Now, same thing with the daughter. If you’ve got a girl, I mean, let’s face it. There are men that get abused, too. There are men that get abused by women. Obviously, doesn’t happen as often, but it still happens. There are boys that get abused by men, men that get abused by men. At the end of the day, what it does take is it takes us to man up, or human up, or woman up, and to take a stand, and to speak up when you see something that isn’t right. When you think there may be something more, when something seems amiss, when that gut instinct tells you something’s wrong here.
Look further. Don’t just ignore it. That’s what we gotta do.