Who's The Bigger Cry Baby?

by Fabricio Contreras

I think everyone would agree that the female gender is more emotional than the male. The question is, why? Is it just the way women are? Is it hormones? Is it because they can’t control themselves? Scientific tests have proven that many outbreaks of emotional woman stem from hormonal surges during their menstrual cycle. Throughout the month, a woman’s body remains at an average “set point”, or normal, level and rate of hormone secretions. During their menstrual cycle, the endocrine system in a woman’s body secretes too much hormone, to compensate for that lost during the cycle. Therefore, the body is thrown into a tailspin without knowing which way is up. A woman’s body simply does not have the means to fight off the insanity occurring within itself. Furthermore, when a woman is experiencing menopause the endocrine system is pumped into overdrive, constantly secreting hormones. The body at that point is in a constant state of turmoil. It can’t just make the hormones turn off, and it can’t get rid of them, so the only choice is to wait it out (unless you have the help of medicine).

Another interesting fact, is that women typically know how to communicate their feelings more than men. Women have an expansive vocabulary that they can use to help describe their emotions. Not to say women are smarter than men, they are just quicker to use emotional words to convey their feelings. Men are usually more subtle and guarded with their emotions. Whereas, most woman will tell it as they see, to whoever they want to tell it to. Therefore, since women normally voice their emotions more openly, they can possibly be viewed as “perceptive” or “sensitive”. Men, on the other hand are viewed as “enraged” or “infuriated” when they express pent up emotions. Men tend to hold things in and not let it bother them. Since women let it out more often, it strikes us as odd when men finally tell us how they feel. There’s also usually a force behind it- simply because the emotion has been buried for a period of time. I can see how it is viewed as strained and unnatural when a man openly expresses emotion. It’s because we’re not use to seeing it. When something is unfamiliar, it’s bizarre. So why do men receive responses such as “why are you crying about it?” When in reality, women are the ones that “cry about it” on a continuous basis. For example, a woman might express her wishes for her husband to do the dishes every day for a week. When the husband finally accomplishes the feat, the woman is pleased, but also at the same time upset once again that it’s taken a week. The man lashes back with a request that has gone unspoken for who knows how long about the woman taking the time to do something for him- we’ll just say…take out the trash. And thus opens the vicious cycles. The fact is, both parties are upset about a particular issue. The difference being that a woman is quicker to tell you to do the dishes.