LIFE-Day Tuesdays: Female issues

I had the first of three cervical cancer vaccines today. The Aussie govt. has allowed them for free for 12-26 yr olds but that ends in June next year so my mother had to force me to go get them. It canes when it goes in because of the acidity in the vaccine to preserve it. The sting fades to a dull ache though and it does depend on your pain threshold (mine's decently high). My doctor was all thumbs up when I said I wanted to get the vaccine so now I have to go back twice more to get the follow-up shots. Yay for injection fun. The moment someone makes a prostate cancer vaccine, I'm telling every guy to go get it. The more painful the better. They have a whole faculty for Women's Health in hospitals. Does anyone know if they have a Men's Health ward? When you really think about it (like I am right now for this post, first and last time I assure you), female health issues are huge. It may have something to do with the fact that we give birth and our hormones seem to run far more amuck than the average male. We have to wear more articles of clothes, endure pain every month, spend so long to get ourselves ready for anything, spend more money on stuff like cosmetics that guys will never need to buy (if they're not drag queens that is) and to top it all off, we're encumbered by social perceptions of beauty all the time- men are also but for some reason, I think it starts earlier for females and it affects us more. No wonder many girls want to be men and many men are so thankful that they're not female.

But there are definitely some major pros in our corner. We get to wear dresses! I know that guys can wear suits (which I'm deeply envious of) but there are so many dresses and so many different colours and cuts and fabrics and textures! Heels, hurt as they may, have that crazy ability to make our legs look awesome. We have the "female" licence to cry in public, weep at sad movies, let our emotions out, show affection without fear of ridicule and we can get other people to carry heavy stuff for us =)

There's plenty of other pros about being female right?