Bitterly complaining for nothing

An almost warring but interesting conversation with good friend Peter.

The warring came from his rather extreme point of view that women pretend to have to suffer each month but that men do so every day.
Peter means that for most of her life a woman each month menstruates during 2 to 7 days.
While having this period, the woman has to facilitate a clean and hygienic response.
Next, Peter explained that a man has a beard growing on his face and needs to shave every day.
Not only during 2 to 7 days this bodily maintenance has to take place, but every day of the month.

The tendency of Peter’s way of putting these two things next to each other was, that women sometimes make a big thing of their period while in fact it is the man who holds all the cards to complain bitterly.

It was a point of view rarely seen of such a high level of silliness.

Peter was offered the information that often menstruation comes with heavy pains.
That many women suffer greatly each month and often need medication to deal with the period.
This was waved away.
Shaving, according to Peter, was not painless either.
During the process of shaving itself, the cutting of the hairs is hurting especially when a cheap razor is used.
Often, in spite of good carefulness, the razor cuts into the flesh causing bleeding, pain and a demonstration during days of an unsuccessful shaving exercise.
Last, according to Peter, there is the “burning”.
This is a pain a man feels after shaving.
An intense pain on the cheeks like a forest burning.
“And all this a man is experiencing every damned day of the month”, said Peter, “so don’t give me that crab of 2 Tylenol days a month”.

Next, Peter was presented with the facts that menstruation is a naturally occurring phenomenon, only seen in humans and apes.
And this is the same for a man and his beard.
But the man is not obliged to shave.
A woman has no choice.
She is obliged to take care of herself.
A man can stop shaving and ignore the growing of the facial hair while it would be disastrous if a woman would have the same attitude when having her period.
To just let it go like growing a beard.

According to Peter, this is not the right way to put it.
Even when a man decides not to shave anymore, and he lets grow a beard, this needs maintenance.
A beard needs cutting and trimming and sometimes even shaving in certain areas of the face.
It continues to be a daily occupation.

Lastly, Peter was reminded that most women these days, do shave also.
“You mean, the ones with a moustache?” he unkindly asked.
Of course this was not what was referred to.
It is the armpits that are kept hairless by many women.
Peter happened to know that women shave their armpits while taking a shower.
Often eventually resulting in blocked shower drains.
And this kind of shaving, Peter claims, is not a very serious activity.
Just four vertical strokes in each armpit and that’s it!

The conversation fortunately ended on the latest news from a biologist from the Netherlands presented to Peter.
It turns out that in Europe lice have almost disappeared.
This has to do with a fashion that came from Brazil several years ago.
The Brazilian fashion is that women, but men also, shave their pubic hair.
This is not only attractive for certain persons, but it is also hygienic.

As a consequence, the conclusion is that a woman has her monthly period.
On top of that, she has to shave her armpits.
And now her leg pit needs shaving every couple of days as well.

Compared to the simple activity of the daily shaving of the face by the man, he lost all rights to complain for even one second.

To this Peter had nothing more to say.




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