If all men are dogs, then women are dog-groomers. A provocative sentiment is it not?...
News Source: Nation News
The man brave enough to turn the familiar modern-woman?s adage that ?all men are dogs? on its head is Dr Isaac Newton.
Newton is an author and motivational speaker, an Ivy-league university graduate (he attended Princeton and Harvard, as well as Colombia University) who as he puts it was ?manufactured in the Caribbean, but put together in Antigua?.
He was in Barbados recently promoting his book which bears the attention-grabbing title: If All Men Are Dogs, Then Women Are Dog-Groomers. The book?s title begs the question ? just what does he mean by it all?
According to Newton in a lecture held at the headquarters of the National Organisation Of Women, it simply means that men and women?s negative sexual and romantic behaviour feed off of each other.
?Men are not dogs in a vacuum. Women don?t participate in ?doggish? behaviour in a vacuum,? he said during the lively discussion that followed his presentation.
But do women really encourage this behaviour which hurts them? Do women in other words ?groom? the dogs that then turn around to bite them?
?To the extent that men do engage in doggish behaviour and practices, to the same extent there?s a sort of connection between the ways in which men benefit from doggish practices because women comply,? he told the small, engrossed audience.
During his often amusing presentation, Newton claimed he was well into his adulthood before he realised women thought of men as being dogs and related the incident that forcibly brought the revelation home.
He had been invited to Yale University to give a Martin Luther King Day lecture when, who should cross his path but a young woman he described as being ?ominously beautiful?? Summoning up his courage, he approached her and offered a compliment.
?You really are incredibly gorgeous.?
The response?
?Get out of my space, nigger.?
Taken aback by the hostile response, he beat a hasty retreat and went on to give the lecture. Afterwards, he was approached sheepishly by the same young woman, who apologised for her earlier snappish response.
?I thought you were one of those dogs,? she said, explaining that her last three boyfriends had cheated on her, leaving her suspicious of men and their motives.
This response prompted Newton to check around to see if this was an isolated case or more widespread.
He posed the question to several of his female friends:
?Do you think men are dogs??
Without exception, ?unanimously? in fact, every woman he spoke to gave a resounding ?yes!?, going on to break down how and why men are dogs and relate their bitter experiences.
Cheating, stealing, lying, manipulating ? these were the sentiments expressed by his female friends about the male of our species.
Deciding to take a different, less obvious line, the ever-persevering Newton tentatively approached several more female friends and asked:
?What comes to mind when you think of men??
The answer once again was overwhelmingly - ?dogs!? And why?
?Cheating, stealing, lying, manipulating,? came the responses.
?This notion of men being dogs, as sensational as it is, is very, very real. We noted that there is a truth about it. The truth is that women have definitely experienced men to be liars, they steal, they cheat ? that is a real personal experience,? observed Newton.
