Take a moment to read the following and consider how far fetched and offensive it seems, it is from the book 'Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche'. Chapter Fourteen 'The Friend'
"Far too long hath there been a slave and a tyrant concealed in woman. On that account woman is not yet capable of friendship: she knoweth only love.
In woman's love there is injustice and blindness to all she doth not love. And even in woman's conscious love, there is still always surprise and lightning and night, along with the light.
As yet woman is not capable of friendship: women are still cats, and birds. Or at the best, cows"
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm#2H_4_0018
Zarathustra walked the Earth a long time ago "the ancient Greeks speculated that he lived six thousand years before the philosopher Plato" (http://www.livius.org/za-zn/zarathustra/zarathustra.htm). Zarathustra was a religious teacher and his writings present some ideas, that could still hold resonance today.
I am sure that in our present society you will find men with the opinion that women cannot be mere friends to them, that women hold too much sensuality and can therefore only love, but that to add insult to injury, a women's love is contrasting and confusing ....
Women are also described as animals, 'she is so catish' or 'what a bitch', 'she is such a cow', or 'I have a date with this hot bird'.
Examples of these elements or aspects are expressed through our music. Contemplate these Bo Bice lyrics from the song 'My World'
"Did you know that you were leaving when you first told me your name
Convince me that you love me while planning your escape
Always looking past me on to someone else’s face
Tell me
Is he all the things you tried to change me into
Kept me at a distance while you told me you want more
Plans about our future made with one foot out the door
You say that it’s over but there’s some things I can’t ignore"
http://www.bobice.com/
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