The-Dream keeps it really real. (via pitchfork)
This is absolute horseshit. Who are these men? How does a man pose under the guise of “realness” as the victim of some tyrannical monogamy? Why should any person accept any less a degree of commitment from a partner? Simply because one has eyes to observe other options? Because our faculties have no consciousness? Are we imperiously ruled by some wild, atavistic nature or a ruthless, helplessly inverted puritanical impulse? It is one thing to accept a weakness and another to fully give in to it. Cheating is not a lifestyle, or, if you are particular, not one that need be tolerated just as one would not tolerate the need for opium. Any man that claims his tendency to stray should be accepted, as if it were nature’s own trademark of virility, as if any sudden burst of hedonism need be accepted as substantive, should be sent into the wild with a pack of dogs to see how capricious nature truly is. I am ready to have conversations about the naturalness of monogamy. I welcome discourse on the forgiveness and acceptance of an imperfect partner that has gone astray. I am not ready to accept, as a statistic or a rule, that 99% of the time “he’s going to cheat”. Any woman that accepts this is foolish. Any man that promotes it is a coward. If you can’t find strength enough to be faithful now, then prepare yourself for a lonely life once your faculties prove less useful, and nature’s call not be answered so easily. There is more to love than this.
