HEARTBROKEN?

Sekarang di TV ada acara yang namanya Miss Advised. Basically ini acara reality soal tiga orang cewe yang pekerjaannya ngasih advise soal cinta, tapi mereka sendiri ngga kunjung menemukan cinta sejati. Sebetulnya menarik sih konsepnya. Sayangnya, mungkin karena diproduseri Ashley Tisdale, yang dalam pandangan gw kapasitas intelektualnya sangat diragukan, cerita soal tiga cewe ini betul-betul menyedihkan. Bukan menyedihkan kayak Carrie waktu berkali kali dikecewain Big di series Sex and the City, in which emang Big being a total asshole. Kalo Miss Advised menyedihkan karena kebodohan cewe cewe ini. Gw baru tau kalau di dunia ini ada cewe-cewe yang sebegitu tolol mau mempermalukan diri sendiri untuk kemudian dipermalukan cowo cowo yang mereka taksir, di TV, disiarin di seluruh dunia pula. Banyak cewe pernah, including me, ngalamin masa masa memalukan sama cowo cowo yang disuka, tapi at least ngga ada dokumentasinya, buat diketawain orang banyak.

Ada juga orang yang punya reaksi sama kayak gw, nih gw kasih link-nya:
http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2012/08/miss-advised-is-over-thank-god.html
Karena yang nulis lebih tua dari orang tua gw, menarik banget untuk baca tulisannya karena kita bisa memahami acara TV Miss Advised dari sudut pandang seseorang yang berasal dari era dimana cewe diharapkan untuk selalu poised and composed di hadapan cowo.

Kalo menurut gw sendiri, habis nonton acara itu, cuma satu aja sih komen gw, ini acara kayaknya scripted. Soalnya kok ada ya cewe-cewe yang naif banget kayak gini di umurnya yang udah senior? Entah mereka sampai mau bertingkah kayak gitu demi kepopuleran atau apa, tapi dilihat dari sudut pandang manapun this show is not doing any good for the three girls, baik dalam love life maupun karir. This show is suicide.

Kalau acara ini ternyata memang bener "reality", well, that sucks. Nih tiga cewe yang katanya expert soal love and sex perlu denger wejangan nyokab gw yang kata-katanya udah terbukti bener, "Jangan terlalu fall sama anak laki-laki, just give them 50% of your love. Biarin mereka yang kasih lebih dari 100% cinta mereka ke kamu. Atau kamu cuma bakal sakit hati akhirnya."

WOW!

Emang bener, terlalu nunjukin afeksi ke cowo yang baru loe taksir tuh ngga baik. Guys would mistakenly take that as you are easy. That's the last thing a girl wants in life.

Gini aja sih mikirnya, cewe luluh sama cowo yang affectionate. Tapi cowo malah ilfil sama cewe yang affectionate. Why? Karena mereka dibesarkan untuk jadi tough, jadi mungkin mereka lebih appreciate cewe yang tough dibanding yang murah hati ngasih perhatian dan belaian. Right?

Or they just simply heartless. Who knows? Who care.

The End Of Men

Lately, I am reading on The Kite Runner, and thinking of how can a lovely neighborhood as Afghanistan could change into such a messy place filled with inhuman-barbaric violence and stupid wars.

Yet, Afghanistan is not the only country who experienced war and suffering from it, unfortunately. The world in general knows war very well. It has gone through ages and experienced a lot of wars.

If we tracking back to the names of who-hold-the-responsibilities (read: trouble maker) for all the famous war ever happened on earth, well here is the list:

1. Wars for power in the Ancient Rome happened in generation initiated by Romulus, Gaius Marius, Julius Caesar, Pompey, Crassus and Octavian –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome

2. In 1009, Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ordered the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and then Pope Alexander II gave his blessing in 1063 for Christians to battle the Moslems in the Crusade which then last for 200 years.

3. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia

4. On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb student and member of Young Bosnia assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which then lead to the World War I.

5. September 1, 1939, Hitler with his crazy Nazi invaded Poland and begun the World War II.

6. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who claimed himself as “The Mother of all Battles” invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, which then started the Gulf War.

7. George Bush with his “War on Teror” doctrine, initiated the war in Afghanistan and then Iraq.

Can you see the similarity from all of those names? Yes, those are men’s names.

M-E-N.

Well there are numbers of violence done by other men in lot of other parts of the world, including violence done by Taliban to their own Afghan people, violence in South Africa, war in Darfur, and including Majapahit kingdom who invaded Asia back then. But it will be too long to be mentioned here.

I really don’t understand of how human misery always started by men's initiative (except in natural disaster), which I never know whether it is out of his wounded ego or simply madness. And in every war, you can see that the violator (either the aggressor or the defender) are always men. From the top level of politician to the lowest rank of soldier, all are men. And in Africa or Afghanistan, these men make and teach children to kill!!

These men kill, shoot, beat, stab, burn, explode and do a lot more of horrible deeds to their human fellow, for nobody knows what for. And women and children always stuck in the middle of the chaos they have created, as the most suffering victim in this situation.

“EXTINGUIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSHHHH!!!”

Uuurrrggghh, how I want to scream it as loud as possible out of my lung, while I’m spraying infectious viruses around the globe which kill only men.

Don’t blame me to think that as far as men rule the earth, there are no real period of peace, as violence can always be found through “penjajahan ekonomi”, capitalism, corporate takeover, etc, although when there’s NO war. As it is of their destructive nature that they make damages as long as they live. They born with an easily wounded ego. They always need to feel superior, aggressive, always want more and ready to take over everything and possessive.

Hence, men are not important for the future of the human species.

(I am not recommending female ruler right now, it just that tragedy is unavoidable as long as there are men)

“EXTINGUIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSHHHH!!!”