This is a fun story that came out of a conversation with a female friend about objectifying women. She asked me how I would like it if women objectified men. My brains started working (both the one in my head and the one in my pants) and this is the tale that came out of it. There are many twists and turns and, I think, if you keep an open mind and just have fun with it this story could really entertain you. ENJOY!
DOWN FOR THE COUNT Part 1
JOURNAL OF MARK PARKER
My name is Mark Parker. I will be starting college next year with hopes of becoming a waiter—I'm trying to manage my expectations.
I was getting dressed in the locker room after a swim meet one day listening to the sexual escapades of my teammate Topher Grady. Topher is a man's man, the guy every guy wants to be and every girl wants to be with. He is a physical specimen and he was telling my close friend Louie West about his date with Jane Seward last night. I won't go into the sordid details, but let's just say he banged the hell out of her. My friend Louie was also a guy every girl wanted. I am not like them, not that there is anything wrong with me (I think I look pretty good) but I'm just not "That Guy". Although Louie usually hung on Topher's every word, I noticed he seemed distant, disinterested in Topher's recent, very graphic tale of sexual achievement.
We are all in High School (and over eighteen) and our swim meet had just ended. I finished dressing and headed for the door. I looked back at Topher and his captive audience of guys who love to hear locker room talk about nailing women and I knew better than to interrupt his tale of sexual prowess. Personally, I really didn't want to hear about it today. The love of my life, Abigail Van Houten, was away for the week. Her Grandmother had a close call recently so Abby and her Mom went down to care for her. Thankfully, her Grandma will be fine and I was really looking forward to Abby's return.
Abby and I aren't officially dating, but I think everyone knows how I feel about her, I've just been too chicken-shit to tell her.
We live in Whitby, South Carolina. It's a small coastal town with a very low population in the off season. The kind of town where everybody knows everybody and everybody knows everybody's business. And no, we are not a bunch of hicks; we're just everyday people trying to live our lives.
I will be graduating soon with a class of 103 students. It was 102, but the new kid, Brad Drake, showed up not long before that big storm we had a few days earlier so now it's 103. Brad is a strange guy, keeps to himself, he's kind of Goth and not fitting in well at all. Sometimes I think if I wasn't a friend of Louie's I might be a guy like Brad, lurking in the background all the time, no friends, a bit of an outcast, so I feel kind of bad for him. It has to suck to be the new guy in the last few months of senior year.
I started to walk home that day when my Mom's mini-van pulled up. I was surprised to see my Sister, Carla, driving it.
"Hey!" I said, "What are you doing home?"
"I'm homeless for about a week. After that big storm the river near school flooded and all these rats poured onto the campus. There's rats everywhere—thousands of them, like, millions of them!" She said.
"Yuck."
"Yeah, so until they get that under control class is suspended. Hop in"
I jumped in and gave her a hug. I won't bore you with the details of our conversation, just family talk, and catch up chitchat—the usual. I'll just tell you the parts that have to do with my story.
"So when did you guys become such prudes?" She asked.
'Huh?" I said, having no idea what she was talking about.
"What's with the new suits? Where are your Speedos? I came to watch a boys swim meet and I was very disappointed with your team's choice of attire!"
"Oh yeah, last year the board of education decided that the swim teams should all wear Jammers instead of Speedos, you know, for modesty sake. I guess one of the mothers complained; she said the skimpy Speedos were 'too revealing'. They say the Jammers makes us faster anyway."
"Yeah right! If they were interested in making you faster they'd have all of you swim nude. That's bullshit, when I was going here the guys wore Speedos and the girls all went to the meets to see the guys in their Speedos! Cute butts and bulges that's what swim meets are really about!" She said teasing me.
Carla has always been very blunt; she really likes to tell you exactly what she's thinking at all times.
"Well, the girls wear one pieces. It's not like they're wearing bikinis or anything, so why should we have to?" I argued.
"Because it's traditional. It's the correct attire for the sport."
"But you just said it was so girls could check out our bodies!" I added.
"Yeah so . . . wouldn't you go to the girls swim meets if they did wear bikinis?" She asked.
"Of course, but women are meant to be looked at!" I said realizing this was a losing argument.
"What!" She exclaimed.
"You know what I mean, women are beautiful. Their bodies are amazing and wonderful and designed to be ogled. It doesn't mean they only have that value, it just means they have more value because they're hot!" I knew I wasn't going to be able to explain this properly.
"Whatever that's supposed to mean! You have a lot to learn, Dude!" She said.
She looked me up and down.
"So it's okay for men to look at women, but not the other way around?"
"No, it's just that . . ."
Carla cut me off, "That's probably why you finally got the courage to go out for the team in the first place, right? They changed the Speedo policy and then you signed up!"
"No, that's not why I signed up, I wouldn't care if I had to wear one. I signed up to get in better shape!" I argued, even though I didn't believe my own story.
Carla looked at me and laughed, "Yeah right, I bet if you knew Abby was checking you out in a Speedo you'd show her just how much of a man you really are!"
"What does that mean?" I asked.
"You'd pop a rod in two seconds flat! I know you. You couldn't stand a bunch of chicks watching you walk around in front of them as your package flopped from side to side!" Carla said checking my reaction. I could feel my face beginning to turn red.
She smiled and continued with enthusiasm, "Water droplets rolling down your firm, wet, shiny skin, your round, tight little ass hanging out from that thin fabric barely concealing everything that God gave you!" She said unable to contain her joy at making fun of me.
"All right, All right! Enough of that! God, you're a tease!" I said, while trying not to laugh myself.
I have to admit she was right. I was starting to get hard just thinking about Abby looking at ME the way I look at HER, or the way I look at all women for that matter.
"You couldn't stand women looking at you the way you look at them!" Carla added as if she read my mind.