It is not a penis, it’s Zapiro!

Many people go about conducting their business in the name of pointing out social ills, some are hell burnt on challenging democracy, while some, unfortunately stoop so low that they personalise their differences with certain people.

If anyone says that the famous South African cartoonist, Zapiro is telling it as it is in an objective way, I would tell them to bugger off. In the recent past, the man whom I used to hold in high esteem in his field of making political statements through drawing has taken a totally undesirable direction, which has caused him to lose so much support.

It is understandable that everyone is entitled to their own opinions in this country and it is everyone’s duty to challenge whichever course of national interest they might think is heading the wrong direction, but there are always limits that would sway your argument from being creditable to complete hogwash.

I lost respect for Zapiro’s work two years ago after the acquittal of Jacob Zuma’s rape charges. This renowned cartoonist used that as an opportunity to run his personal agenda by drawing cartoons with more sexual undertones, a person viewing those cartoons would swear that Zuma was in fact a gurgling, brainless rapist that Zapiro made him to be. I cannot even begin to imagine how many people were influenced by those drawings, hence Zuma’s continuous protestations about being charge and tried by the media.

Alas! Zapiro’s master pieces reek of the main opposition’s “daily chorus”: bitch about the ANC at all cost. He has gone overboard—I think. What is up with the shower head? All those cartoons depicting Zuma as a man with an uncontrollable urge for coitus? The machine gun Zuma is always shown wielding? I see a great deal of “player hating”, total disrespect of Jacob Zuma as a person and in Zapiro, I see a petty person whose bitterness towards political change in this country can only be equalled to the feeling Chuck Norris gets after losing a fight. He is living in the eighties and he seriously needs to make his art more satirical in subtle way, without him revealing how much of dick he really is; it is not funny anymore.

Single, Young dad.....

When I grow up, I want to be exactly like the guy I saw in one movie. He was a single, successful young “darkie”.

I always knew that there was bound to be a counter “boast” to that “woman empowerment” barrage. I * AM * TIRED*. Guys, here is our come back

I have decided that I will not get married in my life. I vow to stay single in my gigantic house, with a fabulous silver convertible, huge music collection and a gold fish. To avoid coming home to a grumpy self centred brat, who wants it all and now.

Whoever said a man cannot do without a relationship is downright living in the 70s and needs a serious wake up and perhaps a mental shake—up. Guys are moving on and up, thanks to the ladies for showing that it can be done. Although most of the “woman empowerment” stuff is conducted to the detrimental of males, you have proven that independence is a way to go. One just needs to watch the movies, soap operas and music videos. The media has made the emancipation of a woman its chief ideology and I’m not surprised to see that everyone is buying into it, even the “down on their luck” call-girls (oops) want to be independent—that is why some of them are in the “industry in the first place”.

I am worried about a boy child. It seems like everything is working against him. No social admiration and certainly less opportunities. Gone are the days where a birth of a boy child is greeted with extreme jubilation. In fact it is now a case of “one more burden to the world...let’s try again.

I have a plan to bail all the male species out of this woe of deliberate “man hating”. Just be single. Do away with stress and work very hard on your career, to be on par with single, super moms. When all of us are flooded with work and little play time, maybe we will start to be attracted to each other again albeit on a new, health level where no one is dependent on the other.

Step one: Work extra hard on academics, Step two: Fatten your bank account, Step three: Avoid cheap, brainless floozies, Step four: exude the air of self important, Step five: Tell yourself that you o not need anyone in your life, Step Six: Live life to the fullest!