Monday, September 6, 2010

Foreword


Foreword: Mythology of Pussy and Dick, toward Healthy Psychosocial Sexuality

Sexualityis determined by biology and social psychology. In the socialization ofhumans, mythology plays a critical role in manhood and womanhoodtraining rites. Mythology lies in the deep structure of the mentalprocess, yet mythical notions, stories, tales, ideas, values are clearlypresent in the surface structure of human behavior. Ritual behavior issimply the enactment of mythology, the stories of the tribe, the values,mores, manners, morals. Myths prescribe the acceptable and theforbidden , the sacred and the profane.

Of course the Shamanoften transcends tribal mythology to extend the narrative, take it to ahigher level, much like a Coltrane solo, or a Miles Davis tune,connected to the past but very much into the present and future, theunknown, into the space of fear and dread, and yet it is beautiful, ifwe go there with Trane, Miles, Dolphy. So mythology must be fluid,dynamic. There comes a time when old myths must be discarded, throwninto the dustbin of history. And so it is with the patriarchy or myth ofmale domination.

In the patriarchal or male dominated society,men are taught they own women, that women are their personal property orchattel real, as opposed to real estate, i.e., land, buildings. Isn'tit ironic that a people who are descendants of chattel slaves wouldcontinue in the tradition upon liberation, that they would perpetuaterelationship slavery, i.e., marriage, girlfriend, boyfriend.

Idon't want to own nobody and surely don't want anyone to own me.Imagine, the other day a brother said, "My pussy is at home!" We triedto tell him, first of all, he doesn't have a pussy, his woman has apussy, so his pussy ain't at home. And imagine when he arrives home and"his pussy" is gone. When he locates "his pussy" will he be happy, sad,angry, violent, for why wasn't his pussy at home, why did it leave, ordoes it have the right to leave? Maybe the sister was with her friends,telling them, "Damn, ya'll, I got to go home to give that nigguh somepussy." They reply, "Girl, you ain't gotta do that, that's yo pussy,girl!"

In this atmosphere, women can be verbally, emotionally andphysically abused. They can be beaten and killed for violating theman's so-called ownership of their bodies, minds and souls.
Clearly,there is absolutely no difference in a woman stoned to death in a Muslimsociety and shot to death in a Christian society because of hersupposed adultery and/or infidelity. Of course, these days women areshooting the men to death for their freedom of expression or socalledsexual transgressions.

The man is more often than not affordedhero status in Muslim and Christian society for executing "honorkillings" because he was disrespected by "his" woman. These days womenare exercising their right to retaliate on the man for his indiscretionssince marriage myths and rites suggest ownership by both parties,though man has the ultimate authority in the patriarchal society.

Womenare now attending court mandated anger management classes and receivingconvictions for assault and or homicide in the killing of their mates,all in the name of love. Tina asked what does love have to do with it? Iask, what kind of love is this--and if this is love I don't want it!

Ifwe are to move toward healthy psychosocial sexuality, we must examinethe myths we live by. We may discover these myths are toxic, reactionaryand detrimental to our psychosocial health. We may need to transformand radicalize these myths/rituals in the light of modernity and postmodernity or the new millennium.

In the present era of spiritualconsciousness, we cannot behave as cave men and women. We cannotcontinue rearing little cave children whose behavior befits the StoneAge, bereft of compassion, willing to kill at the drop of a hat becausesomeone dissed them, especially their girlfriend who gave up "her pussy"to a friend or stranger.

We must jump out of the box ofignorance, jealousy, envy, religiosity, narrow mindedness, insecurityand the world of make believe. We do not own other human beings. This iscalled slavery by any word. Partners, boyfriends, girlfriends,husbands, wives, must dispel and discard mythical notions of ownershipand domination.

Our bodies are the temple of God, not theproperty of another. No attachments but to God! We are slaves orservants of God, Abdullah (we are all Abdullah, the servant of God).This is the attitude of radical spiritual consciousness. No one owns usbut God. Our life and death are for God. We are thus free to do as wewill since we exist in God and God exists in us. We are indivisiblefrom God, thus we are God, we are Divine. Man is divine, woman isdivine. We are equal beings in the temple of God and the temple of Godis the universe, and all in creation is of God, by God and for God.

Ifyou desire to surrender yourself to your beloved, this is yourrite/right. In love, it is indeed all for the beloved, love is theannihilation of self for the beloved. Yes, we lose our "self" in thebeloved. In my play One Day in the Life, Karima says, "I sacrificedeverything for you, but you blew it buddy, I'm through with you!"

Wepray you shall do the will of God in your relationships. If you don't,no one can judge you but God, especially the God in you or the selfaccusing spirit! Certainly, no one has the right to beat or kill you,stone you to death, shoot you in the head. Nor does anyone have theright to verbally or emotionally abuse you because of your behavior thatmay, from time to time, cross the line of propriety. And as per sexualtransgressions, pussy and dick ain't nothing but a muscle, so why areyou tripping over flesh, a muscle?

Your pussy belongs to you,your dick belongs to you and you alone. It is attached to you, not yourboyfriend, girlfriend, partner, husband, wife, lover, trick! Humanbeings are subject to do anything during the course of a day, and youare free to do so. Vows of fidelity must be thrown into the dustbin ofhistory, along with Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, and the return of adead man after two thousand years.

If you persist in yourwretchedness, ignorance and world of make believe that you own someone'spussy and dick, your mental health shall suffer along with the generalcondition of society that is rapidly heading to the precipice as wewrite. The mental hospitals, prisons and jails shall remain full ofthose partner abusers guilty of assault and/or homicide.

We urgeyou to free yourself from the prison of your mind based on primitivemythological notions of ownership and domination. Indeed, love the oneya wit, but you don't own them. You can't force them to do anything.

Whycan't we just get along, Rodney King asked? Why can we love and beloved in return? Why must we be ugly to each other, especially in thename of love? Why can't we love without the negativity? Why must we hurtthe one we love, and yet, as Dr. Nathan Hare says, there can be nomaster without one willing to be the slave. Just as I cannot love youunless you allow me to love you, I cannot hurt you unless you allow meto hurt you.

Love begins with self love. If and when you don'tlove yourself, you cannot love someone else. You can fake the funk for atime. But if you don't know yourself, you cannot know your partner andmate. You can be with them twenty, thirty and forty years, but you don'tknow them. This is why couples break up after ten, twenty, thirty yearstogether. They never knew each other, they were faking the funk, butthe funk caught up with them. Yes, there was abuse because in theirignorance they first abused themselves, then abused their mate orpartner simply because they never followed their own bliss or purpose asJoseph Campbell taught us. Nancy Wilson said, "I Never Been To Me!"

Indeed,life is about getting to the real you, your mission and purpose. Whenyou cannot achieve this, in your frustration, you are bound to oppressand dominate your mate and those you love. Sadly, you have beenprogrammed by the American or Western mythology of Christianity andCapitalism. You are thus the man and woman in the box. You may deny youare in the box, yet your very existence , and clearly your behavior withyour mate is evidence you are inside the box of Christianity andCapitalism. In short, you are a slave, albeit a free slave, but a slavenone the less. In turn, you desire to enslave your mate andchildren--Capitalism has programmed you to desire cheap trinkets, thingsand more things, conspicuous consumption, materialism, the world ofmake believe.

Yet with all your materialism, you have notfollowed your bliss, you are totally devoid of spiritual consciousness.You may be religious, yet your practice of religion is a desire forprosperity that would be alien to Mary's baby! You do not desire toliberate the captives, help the poor, the broken hearted, the hungry,the homeless. You are arrogant and wicked wearing your rocks, animalskins and plastic clothes. Yet you are not happy, nor is your mate. Evenyour children are little assholes, ungrateful bastards!

You hidethe pain by medicating yourself with drugs, sex, video and internetgames, religiosity and other escapism from your life of nothingness anddread.

We pray one day you shall awaken and throw off the chainson your brain, throw off the oppressive mythology of Christianity andCapitalism, or any other oppressive religion, including Islam, or anyideology that promotes pie in the sky or other worldism, escapism fromfacing reality with a radical agenda that is about seizing power fromthe blood suckers of the poor, the global bandits who promote the worldof make believe.

How can you be at peace with yourself and yourmate while you enjoy the benefits of a society that spends a trilliondollars per year to commit mass murder around the world to perpetuate aworld of make believe, to keep people deaf, dumb and blind, consumingtrinkets that send them directly to Yacoub's workers: the doctor, nurseand undertaker.

It is this mythological psychosocial order thathas you drunk with thinking you must own and oppress somebody,especially those you supposedly love and cherish. Jump out of thebox--free yourself, your mate and your children. Strive toward a radicalspirituality that oppresses no one, but frees everyone. Love should notbe slavery. Free your mind, free your mate, free humanity.
--Marvin X
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  • South
    Thursday, July 22, 2010

    Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
    " The making of a woman ABUSER "
    Our criteria for raising a boy child condones/condemns our perception of what the responsibility's to women are .

    When a boy shows the sign"s of he"s ready for a female ( puberty ) . What do we do ? In some form or fashion , is introduce him to the idea (mind set - thought pattern ) that an encounter with his first sexual contact is casual (prostitute etc. ). No responsibility and definitely not a wife .
    Then he is raised differently than his sister . No home making ( shelter ) skills ,cleaning , laundry ,sewing , ironing , etc. No curfews ( lateness ) Hanging out etc. Predatory out look towards women .
    Son how many women you got ? Not even the responsibility of a girl friend .
    Mother always bailing him out of responsibility's . SON ; Mom I got this girl pregnant Mom"s reply ; How you know it"s yours ? Escape ism an " ABUSER " is borne ( Born ) .
    To cut this out , we mus raise our Family boy responsibility .
    En de name ob de " KONKER " .


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  • The book will be a great source by which young people can come to grips with their troubling sexuality. It will help move the internal conflicts from below the solar plexus to above the neck. For many young people, especially black men in their 20s and 30s, there is little more than hot amorphous vapor in that region. So-called urban lit is their bible in coming to grips with the violent urgings of their penis. I used to conceal my own risings with a jock strap. It took me sometime to train myself to sit still: running after a woman, any attractive woman, was an addictive impact on the soul. Your teachings in this matter is a kind of how-to book, much needed within our oppressed communities where inordinate violence is turned within, on our women, on our children, and our reckless unfulfilled manhood.
    --Rudolph Lewis, Editor, Chickenbones.com
  • Yes, how can we be lovers when we ain't even friends. We don't know each other nor do we like each other, although Nikki Giovanni once said in a 60s interview with me, "We must love each other for our differences."

    Now who is bold enough to do that? If and when nigguhs don't agree with you ideologically, their attitude is fuck you. So much for unconditional love. m
  • Chicago-Midwest
    Peace beloved, once again, you have hit the head. I had made a comment on Facebook awhile ago, stating; "We need to be more of friends to one another, than just friends, sleeping with each other." A lot of Black relationships, do not last that way.
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