Women are not lesser than men. IMO they are better. This is intended as a guide only. The days listed do not by any means apply to every woman. I'm just covering what sex ed. missed in high school. To men, the menstrual cycle can be like the bermuda triangle; it's just a mystery. Men's hormones arguably don't follow the calendar like women's do.
Women are not manic or unstable. To me this seems like you are taking everything this thread has to offer and trying to make it negative. This is about understanding. This is not about men or women being better or worse. Any conversation or lecture about men or women being better of worse is doomed from the start.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by brianna
Throughout history women have been cast as manic and unable to control their emotions and on some level i think this thread builds on that history.
|
Do you think this thread makes out women to be manic and unstable? Does this thread go along with the history you didn't cite in which women are considered useless emotional animals? I don't see that anywhere. All I see are people reacting to some information I chose to give. All I see are people trying to understand or debate what was in my article. I don't see the history of women's rights or anything of the sort.
Honesty time. Your pointing out that there is no male equivalent thread to this one makes several things obvious.
-You were hurt by this thread for some reason, and you think it's only fair to hurt men back. Some sort of emotional equivalent exchange. Well, you have an opportunity to make such a thread if you see fit. I say that if you think that thread needs to be made, then please make it. I would be glad to see it and I would participate and watch the thread with interest.
-You came into this expecting to see bigoted remarks (as sexism is a type of bigotry). You did not cite one post in which there was such a remark, though. Other than some one sentence answers that are too vague to understand completely, there are no such remarks. All you really have to go on are implications that you yourself are are trying to get out of us.
Quote:
|
The idea that woman have these weird hormones that makes them confusing and hard to understand paints them as lesser to men. the implication is that men were born normal and women are somehow flawed
|
Who said (or insinuated) the hormones were weird? Who said that men don't have hormones? Who said women are flawed? Nowhere are women insinuated to be weird. This is explaining a fact of life that is less than obvious to men. Just because it isn't obvious to men does not make it automatically "weird". That's like calling physics "weird" to people who don't know much about physics. It is simply information that some people don't yet have. I'm trying to educate. Is that really so bad?
This post is mainly about understanding the opposite sex, so that we can bridge the gender gap further. This actually
promotes appreciation of women by men. You, as what appears to be a strong woman who wants equal treatment, should be applauding this thread for it’s purpose of bridging the gap.
Just so you know, the article I wrote was not just some article based on experience. A lot of research went into writing it. It is based on several books including
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom by Dr. Christine Northrup and
Romance on the Run-Quality Sex for Busy Couples by Tara Roth Madden. I also contacted Dr. Al Cooper, clinical director at San Jose Medical Center who is an expert in male and female sexuality. That guy knows more about sexuality than someone should, btw. He himself attested that these figures are the case often enough to make it the average or norm.