What makes a man a man. An obvious requirement could be that the person is a male. An age requirement could be used, but maturity matters more than age and it is possible to have one without the other.
I'm not going to go into what I think a man is now, I may do that a little later. Now I want to talk about what is in my opinion a horrible excuse for a man.
I currently work nights on a road construction project on a major road in Detroit. I was walking down the street at around 2:30am when I noticed a well dressed woman walking across the parking lot of a McDonalds alone. She looked like she may have recently left a club, but there isn't one in the area. Something seemed odd.
I approached her, said hello, and asked how she was doing. She proceeded to tell me how her oyfriend was tripping, she went to the club with her cousin and a friend, had a few drinks, didn't dance or anything. Her cousin dropped her off at his place and he went off accusing her of sleeping with some guy.
I personally didn't care about that. She said she left her phone in her cousin's car and asked if I had a phone she could use to call her cousin to come pick her up. I had no problem with that.
As soon as she gets off my phone a car comes around the corner, slows down and a guy starts yelling for her to get in the car using language I prefer not to use unless I'm really pissed.
She starts to walk down the street ignoring him. He drives along still shouting and everybody is watching. After a while he jumps out, runs across the street and grabs her. He tries to drag her to the car but she resits.
When I see this I run to my truck and head over there. He throws her up against the wall, then she falls to the ground and he pins her down and starts shaking her.
He sees me coming, runs back to his car, which his buddy who was riding with him hopped in the drivers seat and they sped off.
An older disabled gentleman was closer than I was and he was checking to see if she was okay. I did the same. I know their situation was none of my business, but I firmly believe that there is never any reason for a man to lay his hands on a woman in a violent way. I cannot stand there and watch if it is happening in front of me. The other man walked with her to where she was going and I drove around the area to make sure the two guys in the car weren't just waiting for her to walk away from the well lit populated street. She got to where she was going and they were no where to be seen.
I'm glad she was okay. I am also so disappointed that so many people just stood around and watched. There were about 6 or 7 guys working out there between where I was and where this occured and none of them moved. It seemed like thit was entertaining to them.
THis is already longer than I intended so I'll stop here.
