I've decided that where it says in the scriptures that "Man" should do this and that...it really is just for men. Is it really fair for women to have to climb to such expectations? Don't we suffer enough? God says don't eat the fruit. Eve eats the fruit. God declares biological warfare and hits us with the M-bomb (mentruation). Oh, hey wait, Adam ate some too...ah ok...go till the earth and pull weeds?!!! Come now...we women know we do that part, too. I don't blame Eve...not at all. I just figure God wanted to torment men a little more by giving him crazy hormonal women. But, where does that leave us?
This being said after a whole week of crazy PMS (yes...that's why the bipolar posts) and now I know I have to endure a whole week of painful cramps and heavy bleeding. 2 weeks of my month. Freaking HALF of my month, EVERY month until my body finally decides it wants to stop producing those fun little eggs. Then menopause...which doesn't sound fun at all. Oh, or I guess I could get pregnant again. hmmm...no, really getting fat for 9 months and then enduring heartburn, leg cramps, constant peeing, hours of labor, and then at the end of it all...another BABY! Nah...cramps it is.
Ok...where do the men have it bad? They get to leave the family for most of the day and work. I get that that can be a stressful thing to earn a living for the family. I do. I have sympathy for that especially when work is hard to come by. It can be tedious and boring and they have to learn to work well with others, blah blah blah. yeah...I've seen a couple episodes of the office. And for our military men...yes, their life is on the line in many cases. Which would scare the crap out of me. But, it doesn't seem to phase them. Ok, not all men, but I've got a manly man and I don't see fear, I see excitement, adventure, the thrill of new experiences, and of course, "I get to play with guns and jump out of airplanes and travel the world!" (ok maybe he didn't say that exactly...) Back to my point...where do they have it bad? What is making it hard for them in this life???
I'll tell you what their challenge is. It's what has been tormenting them from the very beginning. Eve, women, US! WE are their ultimate down fall. Think about it. What do the men get chastized for? Pornography (naked women), Beating their wives (the woman made me do it), having affairs (the woman wouldn't put out...I had to get it somewhere), being in debt (the woman's out shopping), drinking (the woman's driving me crazy), oh I can go on and on.
So, really, it's not fair to make us, as women, face the judgments of God. We do our part. We make the babies and care for them and teach them despite that the fact that we're CRAZY and unbalanced half the time we're doing it. In God's cruel, or should I say ingenious way, he inflicted men, with not only noxious weeds, but with us. They had to stay with us. They had to leave the Garden and enter a world where they would forever be tormented with our beauty, stubborness, and bipolar ways. Poor men. You know this started out as a rant to justify why we have it bad...and now I just pity those poor men.
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On the PMS thing, you should look into Mirena. I got one after Alex was born and haven't had a period in about 2 years. It's fabulous!! And it keeps those silly baby things from happening. And no crazy hormonal pills to remember to take.
You just made my day. And will likely make Will's when I force him to read it.
I begged the surgeon to please, please take my uterus when he was stapling my stomach (especially after the whole 8 pound ovarian cyst fiasco). But he wouldn't do it.
Ariella you are so funny. Love this post and your random train of thought that all "women" have. We ALL have a little bit of crazy in us, don't we?
I love reading about other crazy ladies. We're all in it together. Just a big pot of crazy soup.
Okay I can't say much because I think I've only had three periods in the past 5 years...But oh I'm good on the crazy part.
Every now and then there comes a post that says what we all really want to say. I think taking out a uterus should be a main form of birth control after having kids. I would much rather be hormonal (from the ovaries)than deal with bleeding for 5-7 days and not dying from it. I mean, how NATURAL is that??
amen sistah!! Ariella you are pretty dang good writer!!!
Ok sis... if your periods are that bad you need to get an oblation... ask your OB. I had one in September and haven't bled since...yea! Which is a blessing as I was bleeding pretty heavy for months and months. My friend did it too... insurance usually covers it... I will tell you all about it. Loved that rant of yours.
That was fantastic. I read it to Cheyenne...who did agree with you. (He has deemed me the Crazy Bitchy Pregnant Lady)
I've seriously considered getting a Mirena or oblation, but I fear those intrusive things that blast my uterus or manipulate my hormones. Somewhere in the back of my mind I blame them for cancer. I know...silly, but I do.
The pill too. I had crazy reactions to the pill when I was first married. Adam was seriously wondering what he had gotten himself into. Never before had I thrown things around the room and thrown a complete tantrum...well, maybe when I was 2. Off the pill, I became my normal self.
I've had a hate relationship with invasive birth control ever since...so has Adam. That's the reason, 4 kids later, that Adam opted for doing the end-all-baby-on-the-male-side surgery.
Emily, seriously, how DO we survive so much blood loss every month? I accidently let it slip to Bryson that I bleed every month. He was so concerned. Later, that afternoon (he must have been pondering it all day) he says, "Mommy, when you die, then Daddy will come home from work and take care of us?"
Poor guy...no, you're stuck with crazy mommy for a long, long time.
Amen sista. Blah blah blah.
After skipping through the whole PMS thing and on to the part about we men, all I can say is Amen!
It's about time someone gets it!! :)
I know you said you blame cancer on birth control and oblation...but come on, thirty years free of periods on one hand, cancer on the other, I'd say it's a fifty/fifty shot... :)
I'm glad I'm not the only crazy one out there! I love love your post.
ooh, Shilae...good point. Really? 30 more years?
We're all a bunch of crazies. What a sorry world this would be with no women. :)
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