Daddy's Dating Rules

[Beirut]

Beirut, it's dad's like you that give a bad impression to their sons. YOU date anyone you find attractive for the obvious purpose of sex and if you hypothetically had sons, they would get the impression that it's ok to act that way. So in other words you're the last person to be complaining about this.

No, I'm the first. I am "father" to two little girls who's biological progenetor walked out on them. I know first hand the consequences of irresponsible men and now it's my job to repair the situation. Part of that is to protect my little sweeties from other irresponsible men and to make them feel safe in the world.

Yes, my sons, if I had any, would be raised like me. To see women as desirable on many levels. What they would also see as well is that there are responsibilities that go along with their actions and you can only be a man when you accept and live up to those responsibilties. You want to bang some broad, great. You make a baby - get a job boy. 'Cause y'all got some bills to pay.

As for me personally, my parents never talked about dating or anything that is more then a friendship with girls, and till about the time I was 17 I was scared to even touch a girl inappropriately. Especially one I didn't know for years. I'm not saying because it's like some sad story, this is the way it should be. Kids are not suposed to have sex unless their parents agree of course, which is totally reasonable in my book.

You are of course free to view relationships and morality as you see fit. I am in no position to say you are wrong about anything.

Also, you can't blame boys for wanting to have sex when the girls want it just as badly. You don't have the right to chase them around with a knife or a shotgun or whatever in order to exact revenge if something hapens between them. I alway thought women were equal to men, by doing that you are affirming the popular belief among rednecks that women are objects to be owned.

Of course I can't blame the boys for wanting to have sex. But I sure as hell can if they plan on having it with anybody living in my house.

Oh, I would use an axe. I like axes. And any boy who shows up at my door with romantic intentions will know to the depths of his soul just how much I love axes.

Women are equal in some ways and not in others. And to the limits of each specific relationship, and in different contexts, women are to be owned. But that ownership comes with an equal or greater amount of responsibility. Authority without responsibility is for cowards. If I work all week, get up early every morning and feed the kids so my woman can sleep late, if I walk the kids to the school bus stop every morning and then walk back home to get ready for work, if I tuck them in every night and clean up their barf at 3AM when they're sick, if I help them with their homework and guard them when they play in the park, then I have earned the right to act the redneck with my woman from time to time.

Besides, she likes it.

Authority and responsibility on equal terms. That's what lets a man act like a man. And until the boy at the door with romance in his heart has proven that he can live up to those standards, he's nothing but a target for my wrath.