Women Are Everything They Accuse Men Of

Responding to “If We Eliminate Man, Would War Cease To Exist?”

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Annelise Lords’s essay, If We Eliminate Man, Would War Cease To Exists?, muses whether there would be wars in the world without men.

She was the noor of my eyes and I loved her more than anything in the world. In my young innocence, I thought all other women would be kind, gentle, and beautiful just like her. That was my mistake.

I know your piece certainly isn’t coming from a place of hate, Annelise. Your writings exude that Jamaican blend of deep spirituality and camp-fire bonhomie (I forgot the spelling of that word and searched more than ten minutes for it!), if anything, that swagger and vivacity that is, as with long dreads and the patois, entirely unique to that quaint Caribbean Island.

As a woman in this crazy world of ours, it’s apt to have thought along that line.As a man, the question played in my mind for a prolonged period of time some time ago: will the world be without wars without men in it? Lying on my back early Sunday morning thinking about life, I morphologically strap a clean canvas on the plain, tough consciousness of my being.