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WALKING DUMBASSES 2

Have you every stopped and thought about it when a gal says something along the line of “fat bitch”, “skanky bitch”, or something similar?  Chances are good the one pointing the finger is just as fat.  I mean, when you are wearing a few score Happy Meals on your ass, you turn around and scoff at an ass that is at a max like ten to twenty pounds heavier.  Don’t get me wrong, an extra ten pounds of ass is a LOT!  But should people in glass houses be throwing stones?  There is ALWAYS someone out there skinnier, heavier, taller, shorter, smarter, better.  As soon as you think there is not, along comes one and proves you wrong.  In the case of fat bitches, do you see all that many that aren’t?  Unless you are a vegetarian jogger, odds are you are fatter than someone.  I like a bit of jiggly on my gals, personally, but I like pretty much any kind, also.  Bitches is bitches-I don’t play favorites.  But it isn’t what the guys want, is it?  Bitches be fighting amongst themselves and insults and back stabbing are routine.  The point here is, however, that you don’t believe your own hype.

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There is always someone out there better than you.  If you don’t keep that in mind, you’ll end up captured and tortured and then killed.  You can’t allow that fact to paralyze you into inactivity or cowardice,  nor can you allow it to make you act sloppy and cocky ( it rhymes, so you can remember and repeat ).  A good rule of thumb is to always keep in mind that most folks are morons, just not the enemies you face.  So always try to improve your last performance and learn from any mistakes.  Rick’s Merry Band Of Dumbasses didn’t have either attitude.  They thought they were good because they could kill zombies.  Good gravy, if you aren’t trapped and surrounded, how hard is it to kill slow zombies?  I mean, you could use better weapons than knives, hatchets or machetes ( like, more spears.  I understand that crossbows are not idiot proof.  Under stress you’ll miss and can’t reload.  But ANYTHING with reach is nice ) but it is still pretty darn easy.  That doesn’t mean they ever did all that great against human enemies-and kept making the same lame choices.  They didn’t seem to EVER acquire much in the way of combat proficiency.

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How many times are you going to surrender?  If you actually survived, would you do the same thing that almost gets you killed all over again?  Jesus, don’t EVER surrender.  In a major war between nation states that signed the Geneva Convention, surrendering got you tortured, starved and killed.  After the apocalypse, there will be even LESS restraint as far as treating prisoners.  First of all, there is the food issue.  They can’t feed you.  So they either kill you or they sell you into slavery.  The slave traders in turn can’t feed you well enough, so you die of malnourishment while laboring.  You WANT to be tortured for their entertainment, killed or die in a labor brigade?  Then surrender.  Otherwise, you attack.  99% of the time you’ll die anyway, but at least there is a slight chance of escape ( and if you aren’t a dumbass to begin with, the odds of being in that situation decrease  anyway ). 

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Now let’s discuss the female warrior aspect of The Walking Dumbasses.  Ever since Linda Hamilton in Terminator and the Xena Princess Warrior show ( if not before ), being a Beatrice Badass has been an entertainment staple.  If you’ve been reading here the last few years you know what bullcrap that all is.  Aggressiveness for its own sake is NOT a female trait.  Defending your family is not aggressiveness in and of itself.  And females simply do NOT have the upper body strength of males.  The best conditioned female athlete with very high energy requirement diets cannot perform at the same level of the average male eating the average diet.  The Walking Dead will probably never address these issues.  But at least, reading between the lines, you catch a glimpse of this in the last show of the last season ( season six ).  There were females in other groups that were subordinate to the new baddest group, but the main force was all males.  This would give any group an advantage, whether the show addresses this or not.  When your group has superior warrior qualities, all other factors being equal, they are going to prevail.  When a group already handicapped by females allows those members to be the mates of the men, their performance becomes even worse.

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Females under perform physically, their presence handicaps the men.  And then when the men are prone to surrender at the drop of a hat anyway, well, you can imagine the end result.  I don’t know if Rick, having been a cop, accepts surrender as a normal course of combat, but only in Hollywood is that not going to get you killed.  And then there is the black guy ( he also played in “Jericho” ) who goes pacifist on the group.  You have a Surrender Monkey as a leader, half your force is female, nobody is learning combat skills past pumping a trigger, and THEN, on top of all that, you coddle some stupid ass when he becomes delusional and thinks all life is sacred?  The hump you say!  The tribe is the only sacred lives-the enemy is worse than cattle to be slaughtered.  When you allow a pacifist attitude to poison the minds of the other members, there goes another drop in combat effectiveness. 

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Perhaps the whole show is a warning on how not to try to survive.  Perhaps all the dumbass-ness is merely a plot technique  to create conflict and/or trick the audience.  Perhaps it is a clever commentary on all that is wrong in our society.  Or perhaps we are just supposed to feel superior because we would never be such dill-holes.  We think.

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