Just An Opinion: Our Girls Are Gone Part One

Our Girls Are…Gone Part One By Raymond Tyler

In recent weeks I have been on the sidelines while all kinds of things have been going on in social media that I wanted to address. I wanted to address them…didn’t address them.

The number one reason is because in 2014 if some one says “Mustard and ketchup are different” the people that believe mustard and ketchup are he same thing will argue and fuss and throw tantrums till someone’s head explodes. Meanwhile, neither side is really listening, except for an opportunity to call the person on the opposing side an “idiot” or some other negative word.

First of all, it is truly stupid in my humble opinion to argue with someone that has a closed mind.

Second, it’s even dumber to approach an opposing idea with a closed mind…there are people who would have wanted you burned at the stake for saying “the world is round.”

Third, the dumbest is the person that dismisses an opposing argument with “you’re an idiot.” I have seen so many issues when examined with a rational and thoughful mind that have more than one right way to look at them. (Hey for years there was NO evidence that The World WAS Round.)

I don’t know what happened to “agree to disagree” and move on but I clearly missed the funeral.

With that said…

I was enjoying my version of “The Sunday Paper”…CBS’s Sunday Morning and while going over the headlines Charles Osgood announced that the leader of Boko Haram said in effect that the over 200 school girls he kidnapped where married off and would never see their familes again.

While I love Sunday Morning, Osgood read it like he was reading the football scores from Saturday’s College Football.

After I composed myself I thought about everything that has been assaulting me in the news from women being kidnapped on the streets on camera to the woman who walked around New York with a camera for 10 hours to make a 10 minutes video proving “street harassment” is a problem.

So I knew I would have to sit down and write this editorial and again place words that people do not want to hear in front of them. The bad news is that I know for people that have closed minds and won’t change, they are most likely to accuse me of everything from “hating women” to being “an abuser” of some kind. I will address that in a moment.

The good news is…that if I’m right…. maybe someone with an open mind will read something that help’s them and help’s the women we love stay safe.

More good news is that I will read and consider every opinion of disagreement and evaluate it from a LOGICAL stand point. The emotional and the ridiculous will be treated as such.

I LOVE WOMEN. I BELIEVE MEN HAVE TO DO A BETTER JOB…WORKING WITH WOMEN TO HELP KEEP THEM SAFE…I WROTE AN EDITORIAL ABOUT IT. LIKE TO READ IT? HERE IT GO!

I LOVE WOMEN

I love women. I have a mother that I love and care about. I have a beautiful intelligent niece. These are the first two people I wanted to hug and thought about after hearing about the marriages and enslavement (rape) of the 200 school girls in Africa. I cannot imagine what I would do. I love my niece and because I love her and I know the world we live in… she has rules. Not because I do not love, not because I think she’s inferior. The opposite is true she’s a lot smarter than I was at her age. My niece has rules and the rules sometimes are less a reflection on her as it is a result of the world we live in. From eating vegetables to not playing in traffic to holding my hand when we are in a store, these rules are meant to try our best to keep her safe. Likewise there are things I ask my mother to do that seem like common sense to me. For example with the holidays coming up we ask Mom to try and do big ticket shopping with either myself of my brother, because we do not want her hit in the head and robbed or worse. Again we realize my mother is not at fault for wanting to go shopping alone…however…being from Atlantic City …my mother also knows that people watch and look for the opportunity to take advantage of weaker people. Again this is an indictment of the world not my mother. I love women…all women.


If you take nothing else from this article…please.
HELP THE MEN THAT LOVE YOU KEEP YOU SAFE!!!