Sara O'Rourke

Men and Women



Posted: Thursday, June 04, 2009

by Sara O'Rourke

Being female is a challenge.

People may well say that complaining and moaning is all in a woman's genetic make-up, and therefore that everything I am about to say is all a result of some hormonal imbalance going on amidst the nervous activity in my brain, but take it for what it is, I urge you - an example of, if nothing more, the complex confusion and emotional battle we endure - sometimes on a day to day basis.

It is often that I will remark to the males in my family, 'it is so much easier being a man, If I were in control I would make you all experience the same things we do and see how you like it!' It is the same things that normally trigger such decrees - namely periods, the prospect of having to carry a baby for nine months, have it destroy your figure and then having to actually give birth to it, as well as the more social pressures keeping our appearances trim and tidy.

Outwardly, at the very least, it appears to me that men have it a lot easier. The fact that they mature later on than women spares them a whole load of emotional turmoil during their earlier years because they do not understand or care about things as much as we do, yet.

And, as much as it disgusts me to say it, for having to live with so many more physical and emotional hindrances, women are not always given the respect they deserve for coming out the other end and biting the bullet. In the workplace, there is still inequality with regards to responsibilities and wages, despite the fact that if anYthing at all a woman's natural obligation demonstrates how strong and capable a person she really is. On the streets, there is still prejudice that women are all dramatic and shallow - isn't that a shallow belief?

What open eyes even a day would bring where the gender roles were reversed wholly and we could for once experience and appreciate the struggles of the opposite sex. Alas, it is an impossibility - for nobody has yet managed to make their fortune this way, yet many have doubtlessly thought long and hard about it!



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