Nasty bitch syndrome.

Another drafts queue ditty...

One of the things I find infuriating about society today is the overwhelming tendency to relinquish responsibility for one’s behavior to some kind of external factor. People today can’t run away from themselves fast enough it seems.

It’s just not their fault. No one is above this and it has become so prevalent it is truly disturbing.

In the spirit of running away from one’s behavior, today’s subject is PMDD.

PMDD for those of you who are unaware is defined as the following:

PMDD is premenstrual syndrome (PMS) that is so severe it can be debilitating due to either physical, mental or emotional symptoms. Treatment is recommended because PMDD interferes with the sufferer’s ability to function in her social or occupational life. The cardinal symptom—surfacing between ovulation and menstruation, and disappearing within a few days after the onset of the bleeding—is irritability. Anxiety, anger, and depression may also occur. The main symptoms, which can be disabling, include

• feelings of deep sadness or despair, possible suicide ideation
• feelings of tension or anxiety
• panic attacks
• diarrhea
• mood swings, crying,
• lasting irritability or anger, increased interpersonal conflicts. Typically sufferers are unaware of the impact they have on those close to them
• apathy or disinterest in daily activities and relationships
• yeast infections
• difficulty concentrating
• fatigue
• food cravings or binge eating
• insomnia or hypersomnia
• feeling “out of control,”
• increase or decrease in sex drive.
• increased need for emotional closeness,
• physical symptoms: bloating, heart palpitations, breast tenderness, headaches, joint or muscle pain, swollen face

Gosh!

Could the symptoms be any more broad based than that?

I hate to say it but the description sounds just about like every angry feminist I’ve ever run across. Merely saying it makes me an incredible sexist pig, I know. I still find it very funny though.

Thing is this... let’s say for a second this is a totally valid condition and I’ve no doubt it is to an extent. If true, by accident of gender men are not subject to this. So, there is a difference between men and women, a real physical and physiological difference affection not only people’s bodies but their behavior too.

A DIFFERENCE.

Meaning as much as certain quarters would want you to believe otherwise men and women aren’t the same.

Further, is there any time when we would readily excuse this in a man’s behavior? Excuse it without viewing him as weak or diminished in some capacity? View it without calling into question his ‘manliness’ or thinking less of him somehow?

I think not.

Then again, since there is some kind of prize in being part of the privileged elite of being a white male in this society (I guess I have all these fucking benefits I’m not aware of) who am I to say. Who am I to call into question this ridiculous double standard that is crammed down our throats? I’m tired of this crap being foisted around, this emasculating bs society and certain quarters use as their rallying cry.

Equality? Let’s all shave our fucking heads and run around in jumpsuits like a science fiction movie taking up the assignments given to us by some faceless bureaucracy. In the meantime, don’t expect to get a pass because your plumbing is slightly different and you’re having a crappy day.

WE ALL HAVE CRAPPY DAYS!

Your biology is not an excuse and if you want to use it as an excuse some of the time don’t be at all surprised if it gets pulled out of the hat other times when it’s less than convenient to your cause.

 Now, I know there are some quarters where this post will be received like the turd in the pool.

This is over 8 years old and to me underscores something of a strange argument that we continue to have. The argument being that there are no differences between the genders. Better still, the misandry that is perfectly acceptable in today’s society.

The narrative that men are evil oppressors and women have nothing but the most noble of motivations for all their actions in this world, it’s so patently ridiculous.

What has this narrative wrought?

We’ve all heard about the collegiate gender gap. But the implications of that gap have not yet been fully digested. Women now earn 60 percent of master’s degrees, about half of all law and medical degrees, and 42 percent of all M.B.A.s. Most important, women earn almost 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees—the minimum requirement, in most cases, for an affluent life. In a stark reversal since the 1970s, men are now more likely than women to hold only a high-school diploma. “One would think that if men were acting in a rational way, they would be getting the education they need to get along out there,” says Tom Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. “But they are just failing to adapt.”

And the question here is whether they are failing to adapt or that we now have a new kind of repression in place, a passive aggressive way of portraying boys as bad from a very young age:

“A more level and wider playing field for girls enabled them to blossom,” they write. “At the same time, the slower social development and more serious behavioral problems of boys remained and allowed girls to leapfrog over boys in the race to college.”

You know that’s the same kind of language we used to hear from racists (and still do today).

But, misandry is alive and well in America.