I have recently started a YouTube channel – Emma Sharp Dalton-Brown (Jamaica Emma) – where I have been posting videos of poems that I have written and problems/issues that people are faced with each day.  The poems are, so far, based on serious topics – sexual abuse, domestic abuse, bullying, prejudices, etc.  The other issues are, so-far, husband-related – you know, the typical male behaviour that goes on in your house – light-hearted jabs at an otherwise lovely husband.

A problem has arisen from the latter, unfortunately, as one man, whom I know, accosted me yesterday at a theatre to tell me off, as if I were some insolent child, for my posts.  Picture a man approaching me…..I, of course, think he’s coming to hug/kiss me hello, so I reciprocate with a hug and cheek to cheek ‘kiss’.  The thing is I read it all wrong…..as I discovered within seconds.  This man in question was not coming to offer me polite pleasantries!  He wanted to know if and how my husband was putting up with my YouTube video logs that were about him!

Taken aback by his brazen accusation and assumption that my husband has a proverbial wooden stick up his @$$ and is unable to laugh with me, I told him that my husband has a good sense of humour.  So, said man would not accept this as a suitable answer and persisted with his complaints about my actions, to which I replied, AGAIN, that MY husband has an excellent sense of humour and actually finds my posts about him funny.  Well, that shut the man up, as he turned, scuttled out of the row of theatre seats and trotted down to his own row.

The truth is, I don’t like to upset people.  Really, I don’t.  However, I am equally going to stand up for my freedom to speak out on issues, my freedom to express when I am exasperated by a situation, my freedom to have a laugh and my freedom to post videos on my YouTube channel.  As I am a sensitive person, one who empathizes with others and hates to hurt anyone, my posts will not be malicious.  Anything you see will be in support of a cause or will have a humourous aspect.  For those of you who are concerned about my husband’s dear heart.  He can handle it.  He dishes out more than he gets, trust me!!

Thank you for your concern, but we are truly fine 😉  My husband is a honey, most of the time……but this does not mean that I am going to, overnight, be alright with his typical man-blindness or man-oblivion.  I am a woman, it’s exasperating and I will continue to make some of you laugh.  I can’t please you all….sorry, not sorry.