Roman Rama III
The Signal
Roman Rama III
With all the discussions surrounding “The Vagina Monologues,” which was recently performed on campus, I thought really hard about the whole empowerment of women topic this show brings, and I’m with it all the way.
I support anyone who can take charge of life and succeed. However, I do wish there was a way to add another version of the monologues. What about a guys’ monologue, or should I say MAN-ologue?
How about “The Penis MAN-ologues?” They could depict many known and unknown problems guys go through.
Believe it or not, guys do have issues too; we just “man-up” and hide them inside our masculinity – one of our problems. Some of the difficulties guys encounter include: erectile dysfunction, the social edict to not cry in public, bottling up our feelings, occasional sweating, pressure to commit meeting women’s expectations, body hair, providing for our family, the famous “does size matter” issue, hair loss, height issues (since most girls like tall guys), occasional morning wood and casual odor problems.
Bringing all our manly problems together, the main theme to my show “The Penis MAN-ologues” would revolve around the popular saying “nice guys finish last.”
Why is that phrase true? Why do some women say they want a nice guy but then actively pass him up for a bad boy who doesn’t treat her right?
I have been both the bad boy and the good guy. Of course, I started off as a good guy until I had my heart broken by ex’s who cheated on me with bad boys.
Fed up and single, I started caring less and turned into a bad boy myself. I started dressing differently, picked up a cocky attitude (being a football player helped with this), and dated multiple girls at the same time. I projected a totally different image and girls started to notice. Now that I think about it, I remember being appealing to women who were in relationships with some really good guys.
Playing the bad boy helped teach me what I really wanted in life. Even though it attracted more women and made me feel good about myself, it only satisfied me for that moment. There were no long-term opportunities I could get with women using the bad boy act.
It wasn’t until a couple years later that I realized I wasn’t going anywhere with the bad boy act and just decided to be myself, which for the most part is a good guy.
Catching myself back at square one makes me think about the phrase “nice guys finish last.” Women tend to think there aren’t any more nice guys out there, while I tend to wonder how many more nice guys left in today’s world are going through the same thing I am.
The play “The Vagina Monologues” deals with real issues of brutality that women have gone through and still go through today. Real men would never treat women disrespectfully. To good guys, any man who chooses to use force or disrespect a woman is considered a coward.
“The Penis MAN-ologues” would be a great follow up play to “The Vagina Monologues.” It would show women that there are nice guys out in the world today who would pull out a chair and open a door.
Come on. This article is the exact reason there even needs to be a women’s studies program in the first place. Here’s a clue, if you have to keep saying you’re a “nice guy”, you really aren’t.
Repeat after me: It’s not all about YOU.