Graycap23 said:

There ya go

Byron said:

I think the crap women have to deal with is far more apparent, because we live in a rather male chauvinist world. But under the surface, that system chews men up and spits them out for not falling in line at every step. And for those men who do, it too often coddles them into social oblivion.

Everyone suffers.
[Edited 5/19/09 11:10am]

Lammastide said:

Very true ...

MrsGoodnight said:

Absolutely!

Graycap23 said:

Comparing sexual assault and choosing the accurate partner to marry... That's nerve.

Women. And gay men!

MarySharon said:

Comparing .....or giving different examples?

ernestsewell said:

Of course it does, in minority.

Graycap23 said:

You quoted so I assumed you wanted to compare.

MarySharon said:

Just an example of the 2 burdens men and women have. Nothing more.

Graycap23 said:

I wouldn't call the other one a burden IMO. You still have choice to marry any person or not. Besides, one might found out he made the wrong choice by marrying the wrong person (And I'm not plagiarizing Depeche Mode here ), then mistakes of youth become a burden but it works for both genders, I don't see the point in dividing men & women on that one.

MarySharon said:

There are more woman that marry successful men because of their looks than vice versa.
[Edited 5/21/09 5:52am]

Byron said:

But is a sharp kick in the balls guaranteed to happen once a month for 40 years, give or take?

On the average, women.

Just wanted to read everyones opinion before i said it

WOMEN

meow85 said:

No, but it will probably happen more than pregnancy lol

Plus, nobody gives us sympathy or buys us chocolate when we've been slammed in the fellas

And cramps, as painful as they are, are at least connected to a natural occurance in nature and is even connected to the ability to create Life...a kick in the sack is connected to nothing other than vomit-inducing pain and hysterical laughter on "America's Funniest Videos" lol ...

Byron said:

You wanna talk about vomit inducing pain? Come back when you've given birth. Pushing a human being out of a 'personal hole' is no fuckin' walk in the park! Sympathy and chocolates (hell, an entire Thorntons/Ghiardelli store!) is the least a woman should expect after that experience...

AND! After you've given birth there's the 9,000 litres of blood (OK, I'm exaggerating, but it looks and feels like it's that much!) your body expells over the next 4 to 6 weeks, just to make up for all the periods you missed whilst pregnant.. and the maternity towels you have to wear.. OH THE FUN!!! It's like wearing a mattress in your knickers.

Then you have the stitches, because 8 women out of 10 tear during childbirth - do men need to have their ball sacks stitched back on after a kick in the knackers? Nope.

And do I need to talk about the excrutiating pain in your breasts as your milk comes in, especially if you get mastitis... and there's that feeling that you've been wearing a barbed wire bra, filled with ground glass as your nipples get used to a human being sucking milk from them.. the cracked and bleeding nipples and having to bite down on something, with tears rolling down your face and your toes curled up as you try to feed your baby. Extremely uncool.

Labour and childbirth can last for days, the postnatal period, months... How long does a kick in the nads last for again??

Women - absolutely.

Men can face challenges and have to some expectations placed on them but it doesn't even come close to the way women are treated across the planet.

PanthaGirl said:

I agree 100% with panthagirl