P.I.N.S.

You know how sometimes ideas just fall into your lap? Well, that happened to me.

Somehow a certain silly idea has been allowed to manifest for enough time where people start to think this it's actual truth. As I'm not one for silliness, I feel a personal responsibility to go ahead and set the record straight. Women have been running around thinking that the power (refer to Method Man and Mary J. Blige's '95 hit if you're unsure, although it should be obvious) can get them out of any situation and allow them to treat men however they please.

The power is not super. P. I. N. S.

I am utterly clueless as to why women are so shocked at the idea that they can be turned down, that the power is not the end all to be all, or that it's not the get out of jail free card that it sometimes seems to be. I've said it before and I will say it again: 80% is roughly the same. There's a bottom 10 percent and a top 10 percent. Now before "more than 10 percent of women" start thinking that they're in the top 10 percent, let it be clearly stated that membership in the top 10 percent doesn't make one exempt from being jilted either. Less likely, yes. Exempt? Not a chance.

No, this isn't going to have anything to do with ratios or options. It simply has to do with the fact that women all can drive men to the point of not wanting to have anything - at all - to do with them. I've been driven to that point more often than most would probably imagine (and everyone saying I have a short fuse that helps lead to such occurrences can shut it).

Frankly, any man that says he can't be driven to such a point needs to turn in his card because he's obviously a simp who will do anything and take anything for it. That ain't life. Straight up. That. Is. Not. Life. If it is life for a man, what woman would want anything to do with someone so spineless? I always hear that women want men with backbones. Wait. Let me stop there before I venture into the Bermuda Triangle-like world of female hypocrisy.

But it's not just the fault of women. Not much is exclusively the fault of one side or party, especially when dealing with love and relationship matters. There are a whole lot of simps in the world, and they mess things up for the rest of us. Matter of fact, I just happened to run into one of the worst simp moves of recent memory. Worst part is that the pepetrator is someone whose hustle I've come to respect, especially recently.

Lloyd has a new song out called 'Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)'. I promise the timing couldn't have been better. I also promise the subject matter couldn't be worse. Opinions and emotions like those expressed in this song are the reason women think men are slaves to it and treat men as if they are.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have missed one of my ex-girlfriends in that respect. 'Have' as in 'once did'...and it never got anywhere near the point of what I'm talking about. A dedication to an ex? Missing it that much? I don't think so. I'll move on before I say anything more detailed.

No one is above being denied or rejected, and everyone has a breaking point. And just to be clear, I'm not saying this to down anyone or "take anyone down a peg" (although I take no responsibility for how people take these things). It's just that I've reached a point where I had to say something/ This ridiculosity has gone on far too long. Yes, men turn women down. No, the power can't get women everything they want and out of everything they don't want. Men deserve a little bit more credit than that, especially considering that said power is mostly the same across women. It's not what makes men fall in love. It's not what's going to keep a man around. Women have to use other attributes to stand out...and when it comes to those attributes, there's much more variation.