You Go Girls! 7 Ways Women Are Tougher Than Men
I heard a strange, high-pitched screaming coming from my son Henry’s room and rushed in to see what was going on. I should’ve known–Serge, my husband, got poop on his finger again. Just a smear, but you would’ve thought he lost an appendage. Now, my husband makes his own furniture out of barn wood, can tile floor like a pro and apparently has no problem gutting a deer. But a little poop smeared on the same hand that reached inside hot deer guts, and OH MA SWEET JESUS, all bets are off. Me? I get a little poop on my finger during a diaper change, and I’ll go make myself a nice sandwich after I’m done. Poop schmoop. Our varied reactions to poop got me to thinking about all the ways in which women are more tenacious than dudes. Seriously, have you ever met a man who, when sick, doesn’t act worse than your teething baby? Exactly. Here then are seven ways women are tougher than men. – By Monica Bielanko
Flu? Who Me? Nah
Sick men are worse than sick toddlers. When guys feel a little tickle in their throat they’re down for the count. Me? I got the flu I’m still dropping off kids at school, doing laundry, making dinner. Don’t believe me? A study shows men are way more likely to call in when sick than women. Yup. Dudes get the sniffles and call it the flu, while women get the flu and power through it without complaint.
I can assure you that our second child would not exist if Serge had to carry our first one. I can just hear him now: retching over the smell of dog food, complaining about his weight gain, and don’t even get him started on his spider veins and hemorhoids, girlfriend.
It’s laughable, really, to envision Serge experiencing the pain of childbirth. He knows it, too, having said, “Child birthing is a heavily-slanted one-sided affair in which the hero is always a heroine.” Childbirth trumps all. When your lady comes back with, “Did you ever push a human being out of your body?!” you must admit defeat.
It’s not so much the pain or the blood loss, but just the mere annoyance of that “monthly visitor.” I mean, can you imagine dealing with a dude for a week while on his period? The whining and complaining that would ensue? I’d rather be locked in a cell with a sick toddler…and that’s saying something.
Chicks are hard core when it comes to hair removal. For funsies I’d love to see some dude get a Brazilian bikini wax and see how well that goes over. About as well as a kidney stone working its way out of his system, I figure.
Ever had to enter a bathroom after a dude who just vacated his bowels? Yeah. Here women are, using lobby bathrooms in hotels so they don’t stink up their shared rooms, and dudes drop deuces that could melt your eyebrows right off your face without thinking twice. Braving those bathrooms and cleaning the piss splash from around the bowl every couple of days should garner us some sort of special Wife Day. We’ve earned it from surviving your bathroom behavior.
Ever seen a guy try to walk in high heels? It’s pretty funny, isn’t it? Not so funny when you think about the lengths (5 inches, to be exact) so many women go to in the name of fashion. Whatever it is, women have feet of steel.
