I was always taught at women were just as strong as men, and though we can do anything they can do we still need to let a man be a man at times. Well when you’re 8 you have no idea what that means. Well now at the tender age of 30 I completely understand what my mother meant by that. Here is where my question lies, when is a woman being “too much” of a man?
Recently I saw a video on Facebook , where a woman was proposing to her man. And hunny child when I say he was more concerned with that watered down drink then her proposal , trust me it was a sight . "Girl, if you don't get your behind up off that floor. You're letting your desperate show." I must say it made every part of my plus size body irritated with anger. However, this is not a new trend. Nope.
For those of you who watch Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, you will remember that Josaline ask Steebie J to marry her. I thought it was the most insane idea then and I sure as heck think this it's crazy now. Now, I know that we live in a time in the world where gender roles are slowly disappearing and a lot of things are now acceptable. However, when it comes to a woman proposing, to me that is where I feel that we need to still be old fashion.
Are we so bent on getting out of past that we turn the last standing tradition thing into a mockery? Call me old fashion, call me stuck in the past, but I think there is something wonderful about a man asking his woman to marry him. You new age women can say that it is nothing wrong with asking a man to marry you but answer me this: don’t you think that if he wanted to marry you he would have ask you? I'm pretty sure Beyonce said, "if he liked it then should have put a ring on it?" Here's the secret: that song didn't mention you should do it for him.
I am in no way being shady. I am just saying, Do you think that if you tell your girlfriends that you ask your man to marry you that you somehow become queen bee? What else are you going to do to let your desperate show even more? Are you buying your own engagement ring? Will you also be paying for the whole wedding as well? So let me get this right, you go out and spend money on your man who treats you more like his part time chick and you ask him to marry you? His response is “aight, let's do that then." How tacky is that?
Are you that desperate for a man that you have to beg one to marry you. No, boo boo. Don't do that. But like Kermit says, "That ain't none of my business."
