A Shortie or Two

I so enjoy poking fun at present day slang. Apparently, shortie means baby. I gathered this from context clues. So if I’m using it incorrectly, let a lady know.

Why do educated men have issues dating women with a kid or two?? Back in the day, when I was with F, and I know most don’t know who F is, I remember him telling his friend, “Get you a chick with a kid. Maybe she’ll be a 5. You don’t have to take her anywhere. Just bring movies over, play with the kid a little and she’ll be happy…You can chill at her house when you don’t want to be with the folks. Plus you don’t ever have to worry about her sneaking up on you in the club cus women with kids can’t just up and go like other women can. Baby-sitters don’t grow on trees.” This friend was newly out of graduate school and living with his parents until he got on his feet.

Was I mortified?? I was too ‘in-love’. Never fret, once I was out of that haze of love, I was undone at ther perception. Undone because it might-could be true. Single mothers, from what I’d been seeing, exuded something that said, “I will take what I can get because I’m damaged goods.” But when I really-really looked at the women, you know-looked beyond the surface shyt, I saw that it wasn’t having the kid that made them so accepting of the bull and his shyt. It was a whole smattering of other issues leading me to believe even without the shortie, they’d still put up with crap by the pound.

Fortunately, all young (40 and under), childless, educated men do not look at the single mother as being an ass source and a place to lay his head. Nevertheless, they still choose not to seriously date them. Why? Is it because they think the baby-daddy can always come back?? Cus for-real, for-real, some of the women do think the shortie’s dad/ex-husband is going to come back and finish the fairy-tale they started. Is it because they want her undivided attention and don’t want to have her time split between being his lover and someone’s mother?? Could they be that selfish?? Is it because they want whomever they end up with to have an un-used womb?? Help me out here!

Educated women will easily date a man with a whole team of babies and matching baby-mommas. Why?? All too often these women don’t have to see the kids. Why?? Because the men don’t see the kids. And you know what? These same women ignore the glaring fact that the man is crap. Why is he crap?? Because any man who ignores his babies, his own flesh and blood, his responsibility, will eventually be just as craptastic to you. Sure there are cases where the baby-momma (Have I told y’all how I hate that term?? But I’m only using it to keep with my plan of infusing slang to attract a wider audience.) refuses to let the responsible father see the shortie if he isn’t going to be with her. A judge can clear all that up though!

Another reason educated women are quick to date baby-daddies is because there’s a belief that as you get older, it’s impossible to find a man whose been stingy with his sperm. Men don’t have this issue because even if they are 40, they can still get with a childless 24 year old and most people won’t look at them like they’re a dirty old man. Is this fair?? Heckie naw!

It is no true that every person over 35 has a child and if they don’t there’s something wrong with their equipment. I’m tired of hearing that. People, it’s called being responsible! It’s called planning. It’s called BIRTH CONTROL!! Look into it. Nor is it true that every single mother (or father) made the child because they were being irresponsible. Divorce rates are high. A lot of people are single parents because of divorce. Ya see, they got married and it didn’t work out. Marriage? You heard of it??

But this isn’t about that. It’s about how men folk are writing off some perfectly good women because she has a shortie, or two. It’s about the double standards we cling to when it comes to parenthood. It’s about men being able to get away with living their lives as if they don’t have a shortie!! It’s about realizing if you’re dating some who has a child and s/he puts that child on the back-burner for you, they aren’t shyt! And if you breed with that person, they will do the same to your child.

Lots of women think their husband/man’s baby-momma drama is cute. They say, “He wouldn’t never try no stuff like that with me!” To which I say, “Bitch please!” Go your dumb ass on and have babies by his trifling ass and see how it goes down. And it kills me to hear men talk about how horrible their shortie(s) mother/ex-wife is. Well kind sir, you married/laid down with her!! She was a hot-shytty-mess before the baby came so why are you complaining now?? Oh cus now you’re stuck dealing with her. Go sing that song to someone else!