battle of the sexes.

women are from venus, men are from mars.
i never really understood that, but i thought it’d be a proper intro to this entry, which is pretty necessary considering the wall wars going on between some of us. haha. and as amusing as it is, you men need to learn some straight up facts and us ladies need to cope with some truths.
so it all started when my darling pumpkin pie answers “vivaldi” instead of “verdi” and tal decides to pester us with “why didn’t you pick alex he totally would’ve gotten it right. after all he is a guy.” then came the shocker.

“and really, shouldn’t you know by now that men do rule the world? they are better.”

if you google ‘battle of the sexes’ or ‘superiority of men‘ or ‘unfair treatment of women‘ not only will their be a slew of jokes, crude comments, and explicitly drawn cartoons, but you’ll see facts. for example. recently, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has recently admitted that women outperform men in all levels of education. even though this statement is, oh just a few centuries overdue, it’s nice to have an organization that thinks so. nearly 51% of the medical field today are dominated by women, and according to Forbes, women now own 46% of private businesses. everyday, 420 women start their own businesses, twice the amount of men. women-owned companies now generate $2.5 trillion in annual sales and employ 19 million people nationwide. even politically, i’m sure everyone knows that nancy pelosi is now proudly representing not only democrats, but women as well, as the speaker of the house.

even stepping away from the serious side. men complain constantly about their 80 hour work week and come home and totally laze out, but have they ever considered the fact that stay at home moms have a 118 hour work week with no pay, healthcare, or contract involved? they have no time to themselves and prioritize themselves on the bottom of their list, after “children” and “husband” and “groceries”. men? they’re at the top of their list, then comes “family” and “football” and “poker”. women are the more emotional of the two. guys can go complain that we pms too much, but you know what? emotions show that we care and have more of a conscious heart than you do, and our pms at least shows we can carry on your bloodline. and really. even if men were leaders of the world, who got them that far? without teachers, them majority being women, you little boys would still be mulling over paper boats and marbles since you guys wouldn’t have the knowledge to do anything better. so in the females’ defense, i close my statement with this:

“It’s really no wonder, though, that females’ verbal skills have continued to pass that of males, because the majority of a guys’ time from the age of 5 is dedicated to playing video games, fuming to themselves, and breaking the silence only to banter with each other about their superior proficiency and yell at the television when they can’t pass level 2.” –The Daily Iowan

then there’s the men. if you think about this carefully, there has to be a catch to this dispute. if men had no good qualities to them at all in the beginning, then why would they have been destined as leaders to begin with? why the bias? okay i know claud and dena will hate me for mentioning these points at all, but in all rationality, i have to. let’s start at the beginning of time. Jesus was a man; God is referred to as a man; and i think i can say that in at least the religions of Judaism and Christianity, those two figures preside over the universe. since the most important leaders of time and space are portrayed as men, then it would only make sense to continue this trend onward–hence the creation of man before women (yeah i guess you could say that men were rough drafts and God kinda screwed up, but then again God doesn’t screw up so depends on how you look at it).

then look at what women admire most about men (or at least what i admire most)–their physique, their mass of muscle and ability to protect. true, we need brains in the government, but with just intelligence and no security, our country is just about as doomed as it would be without intelligence. people argue and say that it’s really unfair that women can’t take any real positions in war, but i would like to think that the males of the government took into consideration our pretty faces and didn’t want to see them marred in battle; i’d like to think that they were thinking of our health and detriment to our nation if we settled for just average soldiers; i’d like to think that the sexist portion of their mind wasn’t working. men speak significantly less than women. instead they just think it in their heads instead of vocalizing it.

but guys and girls, really step back and look at the picture and realize something. men wouldn’t exist without women, nor would women without men. without nurses in the army, the soldiers would never carry on. without the strength of men like prince charming to rescue aurora from the tower and the dragon, she would’ve never lived to tell the story. it’s the enveloping protection of men and their quiet, yet irresistable, allure that makes us lose our breath and our natural spontaneity and perpetual thoughtfulness that melts their hearts. women run the household, but there’d be no house if men didn’t work while we were on maternity leave. men own the football field, but they’d lose their motivation to play if there weren’t head-turning cheerleaders rooting them on or motherly volunteers making them nice protein filled meals to build their muscles. men get sick twice as often as women, but women tend to be more concerned about their health and are there instantaneously with a thermos of chicken noodle soup and tylenol. men grasp a situation as a whole and think globally, while women think locally, relying on details and nuances–you can’t change the world without changing a city; obviously both are equally important.

there’s a reason why women and men were different, or else the theory ‘opposites attract’ wouldn’t be valid. for us to rival with each other as to who is better and who is worse defeats the glory of each sex and is totally unnecessary. neither is better than the other, and men need to realize that women should be treated fairly while women need to realize that men are working on it. nothing is everything, and everything comes in moderation. women and men were put together on this earth to live in harmony, each to fill the other up in areas they lack.