yeah, she's a feminist, but she was born before they invented PMS. Not the symptoms, silly, the label. She refused to give in to the pressure to use the label as an excuse to mask her actions and lower her standards of personal conduct.
Some of the most respectable women I know are a bit moodier sometimes, but seem to go out of their way to recognize and compensate for the hormonal cycles and sometimes associated mood swings that they've been dealt by nature.
Course, some of the men I know take great care to be respectful of women in general and their spouses in specific and do all they can to lessen the effects of those monthly cycles. It's called taking care of each other.
But to take PMS and nagging as inherently feminine? I don't know, I thank that's a crutch used to get away with behavior that would otherwise be grating, annoying, and rude.
I in no way intend this as a pointed attack or a personal jab, the issue just bugs me in general and I thought I'd get my opinion out there. I have tremendous respec for what women go through, and appreciate them the more for it. |
