Rant #2,146: It Doesn't Matter

Today is Friday, May 18.

We are slowly creeping toward Memorial Day and the coming of summer.

My allergies are killing me.

I cannot find a new job.

Blah, blah, blah.

But you know what else is coming ...

Tomorrow, the royal wedding between Prince Harry and commoner American Meaghan Markle, a marriage that is a made in heaven affair for the times.

They are young, good looking, and she is of mixed race, all to satisfy current trends that the media loves to jump on.

But really, what is the fascination with royal nuptials on this side of the Atlantic?

Really, I have no idea, I can just theorize.

We could have had our own royalty, but George Washington, as legend has it, did not want to be called "King."

If that is actually true, good for him.

I guess his action has made many of us yearn for a real American king and queen in a bizarre sort of way.

And when I say "many of us," I really mean the female part of the equation.

They seem to be the only ones of us who are obsessed with what is going on in England right now, they were the only ones obsessed with the goings on of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and while I won't say that every woman is so obsessed, do you honestly know a single male who cares about this stuff at all?

No, and here we have another reason that men and women are different, and this time, it has nothing to do with anatomy.

From infancy, little girls are generally brought up to believe that their own prince will one day come, whisk them away and they will have a storybook pairing with their own Prince Charming.

Even though the reality does hit them later that nothing is as described in fairy tales, they still retain that ethic, that adoration for what could be.

Boys are not brought up this way at all.

I am not even saying that it is a conscious thing, that parents bring this kids up like this on purpose.

But this sort of "Cinderella Theory" does exist, even if it isn't out in the open.

This gives women a reason to be so interested in the marital affairs of the royals, an event that has absolutely nothing to do with anything over here.

We have had our Presidents who have had marrying age children get hitched while they are in office, but it just isn't the same.

And with today's with-it women, who supposedly want to do it all--career, marriage, motherhood, etc.--what are women so fascinated with when looking at the royals?

Their unions are so old-fashioned, you cannot believe that so many women actually buy into this stuff.

The royals get married, and the new princess--or whatever they are now called--are expected to do one thing while married, and one thing only:

Have babies.

And not only have babies, but have male babies.

If this doesn't go against the current female ethic, the current feminist credo, well, I don't know what does.

Look at Harry's brother, Prince William, and Kate Middleton--she seems to be a baby factory, and every kid she has puts Prince Harry further back in the chain of command. Harry is now sixth in line for the throne, but who knows, before you know it, the way Middleton spews out kids, he could be seventh, eighth and ninth before you can blink an eye.

And that is another reason that I cannot understand this fascination that so many women have with the royals and their weddings.

They are so old fashioned, so retro, so backward in their thinking about why women were put on this earth, that I have to think that so many of the women obsessed with this actually want to harken back to those days, even though most of them wouldn't admit it.

They would be very happy to have babies, stay at home, and run their own households, but the reality of it is that due to economic and other reasons, the can't do it--but their obsession with such goings on allows them to dream.

So there, I have said it, I have said what nobody else would--many of these women are as old fashioned as can be, but because of current mores, they can't voice that opinion ... but they can at least dream about it when they see a royal wedding.

So good luck to Prince Harry and the beautiful Markle--she is a nice looking lady, guys--and I hope they have a long-lasting marriage, and yes, have many, many kids.

Me, I will be watching the New York Yankees this weekend--baseball royalty if you will--and hoping they can get their games in after a rain-splattered week of no baseball.

And who do they play?

The Kansas City Royals, of course!

Have a nice weekend. Speak to you again on Monday.