The Mockery of the Thorn: Men Laughing While Women Struggle During the Government Shutdown and SNAP Pause

The Rose’s Rant: Laughing Men, Struggling Women, and the Harsh Truth of the Shutdown

Trigger warning: This one cuts deep. If it hits a nerve, it’s because too many people are dodging the truth. I’m not defending the women or the men. I’m calling both out. 

And before anyone assumes otherwise, NO, I’m not on food stamps, SNAP, Section 8, or any kind of welfare benefit. If I was I wouldn't have to give up my own meal so my cats can eat, while I work and tread water to keep up with bills.

If you missed my last post on the government shutdown and SNAP, [The Thorn of Entitlement: Government Shutdown and the Rose’s Warning], it dives into another side of this issue.

The Rose and the Reflection: Rotten Soil and Misplaced Loyalty

The rose doesn’t bloom in filth. It grows in soil that’s been turned, tested, and tended. What I’m seeing online during this government shutdown is the opposite, rotten soil. The mockery, the entitlement, the pride in struggle that’s self-inflicted.

Some men are laughing that women will “finally need them” now that food stamps are paused. Some of these same men lived off those women’s benefits, eating steaks, crab boils, and lobsters while contributing nothing but stress and musty peen. They didn’t pay a bill, didn’t bring peace, didn’t lead. Yet now they’re cheering, thinking dependency will make them needed again.

Accountability goes both ways. The women aren’t blameless. Too many invited those same men into their homes, knowing they brought nothing but appetite and disorder. Kids eating cup noodles while a grown man licks butter off crab legs. The rose doesn’t grow for those who neglect their roots. You can’t expect abundance when you’re watering weeds.

Predatory Males Disguised as “Men”: Cheap Access and False Pride

Lately, the weeds have been shrilling. Men online are joking that with SNAP paused, certain women will “lower their price to 40 dollars” again, reducing their worth to a quick exchange for cash or attention. This is the only way some men feel relevant. They don’t build, they bargain. They don’t inspire, they exploit.

I’ve seen men celebrating that hunger will make her settle. Settle for what? For the ten-dollar dinner and a pack of cheap hot dogs you’ll bring her? Bringing over spaghetti noodles and a 99-cent pack of Bar-S franks while getting your “dollar’s worth” doesn’t make you a provider. It just proves how little you think of yourself and the women you claim to want.

This isn’t dominance; it’s decay. When a man measures his worth by someone else’s desperation, the rot has already set in.

It’s not about attraction; it’s about cheap and free access. These men celebrate a women's struggle just to feel powerful again. Some of these same “men” are on SNAP themselves, yet they’ll cut their noses off to spite their face and revel in low-vibrational behavior.

Have Compassion for the Deserving

Not everyone receiving assistance is reckless, lazy, or milking the system. There are people who truly need help and are doing the right thing. Many are veterans who served this country, the elderly living on fixed incomes, the disabled who can’t work, the sick who can’t afford both food and medicine, and the working poor whose wages don’t stretch far enough to survive. 

Others have fallen behind on rent due to outrageous rent hikes, forced into impossible choices just to keep a roof over their heads. These are the people hit hardest by the shutdown, but they’re invisible in the chaos.

Instead of the laughing "men" having compassion for them, the conversation shifted to pure mockery and how they can finally get a woman to "summit." F@ck other people’s struggles, the sleepless nights, the skipped meals, the impossible choices they have to make, right?

The Rose’s Warning: Energy Comes Full Circle

When people start mocking others’ hunger, it reveals how far they’ve fallen morally. The universe notices. Those who exploit, or take glee in someone’s sudden vulnerability will see that energy boomerang back in ways they didn’t expect.

We can’t keep blaming the system when we’ve built our lives on sand. If the same shutdown that pauses benefits also exposes your boundaries and cruel behavior, that’s your signal to rebuild.

Reflection Questions

• Where have you let entitled people drain your energy while thinking loyalty excuses their behavior?

• Are you feeding your own growth, or just feeding people who take advantage of you?

• What boundaries need to be drawn so your peace isn’t negotiable anymore?

• Are you tolerating chaos disguised as “love” or “partnership,” and why?

• Who in your life is consuming your resources without accountability, and what would happen if you stopped giving them access?

• What patterns are you repeating because of misplaced loyalty and how can you cut them for good?

• How would it feel to finally prioritize your worth without apology?

Never auction off your worth for crumbs.

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