Battle of the Sexes

Bad Choosers

By K.L. Casado

The tired cliché has rung throughout the halls of maternity wards and law firms for years. "The Battle of the Sexes" as it is called; the everlasting struggle for supremacy among men and women. However, in the wider scope of events, how easy one's life is would ideally be more important than how supreme one is. Just ask Colin Powell or maybe even a reincarnate Kurt Cobain. It does not matter much if you're the top dog if your a top dog with an uncomfortable life. Maybe the important conflict is not which is superior, but rather which gender proceeds through life more easily. The question remains then: Which?

It would be impossible here, given the talents of even this writer, to name a clear victor. Scholars and philosophers for years have attempted to do so, yet no gender has ever been definitely identified. However, the clear victor here should be the female. From start to finish, with a layover at child birth, women tend to live easier lives. Men run the government. Men go to war.

Men encounter more obligation inside and out of the family.

When looking at specific instances, life may equally challenge the two.

Both must acquire food. It is noteworthy that men generally eat more than women.

United States law mandates that both complete a certain amount of schooling.

Both must toil through the identity crisis of adolescence, followed by the mid- life crisis of aging, and lastly, the mortality crisis in their elder years.

There is a great possibility that both must appropriate wealth, provided they are not substinence farmers living in some foreign country that does not tax (In which case, the man would slave away in the fields from dusk until dawn while the woman would wash a dish, tie their eighteen ignorant children down to a chair and show them the beauty of using a hula-hoe). Men and women share many hardships throughout the progression of their lives. However, men have generally acknowledged them and taken responsibility accordingly, while women have continually inflicted even more troubles upon themselves.

The familiar fancy of a fellow goes as follows: The man works, makes a living to support his family, provides food and shelter and accepts a position as the head of the family. A majority of jobs are not fulfilling. A man's existence at work is scarcely a spiritual uplift and ordinarily may be draining and exhausting. Even more distressing is a man's dependence on such, for bearing the responsibility for his naked family's hunger might be a bit