So my friend thinks this sort-of-permanent bad mood of mine is just temporary because it's PMS. That is so unfair. And we are expected to compete with our male counterparts who do not even know what PMS is, if they did they would give women time off and declare each day of menstruation a national holiday. And what should happen if a woman does not need ovulation, PMS and menstruation, not necessarily in that order? Nothing, she still has to grin and bear it. Ok maybe not grin, just act disgruntled and bear it because there is no solution to that. And we are supposed to be the weaker sex. Yeah right! If we are the weaker sex then howcome do we get to give birth, something so hard to do that it's called labour? And I would just like to see men breast-feeding, the poor newborn choking on some real hairy chests. So that's reserved for women. Because they are the weaker sex. But they're not. And we've never been. We have just been very crafty all along at making men believe they are strong and macho. Just as women used to feed food to their male partners every day, (some are still doing it till today), we have just as well fed their ego. The way to a man's heart is not through his taste buds, but rather through his ego. And for those of us who just couldn't be bothered to cook tell them that they are marvellous in everything, and that includes gastronomy. I wonder what having a lesbian lover would be like, but there would probably be more hard work involved than in a heterosexual based relationship. I can safely talk about a gay relationship between two men.... that's easy. One falls into the pattern of a wife, the other of a husband, but both have egos and each man caresses the other one's ego. But for a man-to-man relationship to work, one has to caress the other's ego that little bit harder. In some of the gay relationships I have come into contact with, one feigns a moody PMS, because the one has no idea how bad it can get. Some even go as far as allowing themselves sick-leave for a purely imagined menstruation. They just lie low for a while. But that is also because they have never experienced the pain and cramps that comes with it.
And all this makes women naturally better for the economy than man. The minute a baby girl is born, Nuvenia, Carefree, O.B. and Tampax probably rub their hands in glee. Just that tiny baby has millions of eggs in her ovaries which will be, in due course, contributing to the economy. Next come Max Factor, Coverderm, la Roche Posay, Maybelline, and probably something like l'Oreal for the baby's teen years. It includes a lot of spot concealer to cover the odd blemish right before menstruation. Then the girl gets cleverer and it's on to Estee` Lauder's best of them all... Maximum Coverage which gives a model-like cover, and nobody can resist Christian Dior because it's flawless. Of course Gillette has a hand in it too, as do beauty therapists with their savage waxing strips. It never ends. And for the boys? Well in boys as in hetero boys, it's just Gillette, perhaps Nivea, that's about it.
And then we're supposed to get the same pay-check. Come on, it's about time we got extra benefits ... just for being a girl.
And all this makes women naturally better for the economy than man. The minute a baby girl is born, Nuvenia, Carefree, O.B. and Tampax probably rub their hands in glee. Just that tiny baby has millions of eggs in her ovaries which will be, in due course, contributing to the economy. Next come Max Factor, Coverderm, la Roche Posay, Maybelline, and probably something like l'Oreal for the baby's teen years. It includes a lot of spot concealer to cover the odd blemish right before menstruation. Then the girl gets cleverer and it's on to Estee` Lauder's best of them all... Maximum Coverage which gives a model-like cover, and nobody can resist Christian Dior because it's flawless. Of course Gillette has a hand in it too, as do beauty therapists with their savage waxing strips. It never ends. And for the boys? Well in boys as in hetero boys, it's just Gillette, perhaps Nivea, that's about it.
And then we're supposed to get the same pay-check. Come on, it's about time we got extra benefits ... just for being a girl.
