Hey, you women out there.\u00a0 I got one for you:<\/p>\n
You know if a guy grabs the butt of a woman he finds attractive and when she objects he\u2019ll make the, \u201cIt\u2019s the testosterone, I couldn\u2019t help it\u201d excuse?<\/p>\n
Know how we don\u2019t have any real sympathy for that?<\/p>\n
Then why should we expect sympathy for flying off the handle at our hormone cycles?\u00a0 Why should the menstrual cycle give us a free pass?\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, my moods are very much hormonally-driven.\u00a0 I just don\u2019t think that me being mean in the face of that is excusable.\u00a0 I feel like I\u2019m a grown up and responsible for my behavior.\u00a0 If I pull the \u201cI\u2019m at the mercy of my hormones\u201d card, and then expect a man not<\/em> to, then what I\u2019m really saying is that as a woman I\u2019m not as much of a grownup.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not into that.\u00a0 I think expecting all<\/em> the grownups to be<\/em> grownups whether they\u2019ve an innie or an outie is what makes the most sense.<\/p>\n And since we\u2019re all human as well, yes, apologizing when one screws up[1]<\/a> is a good idea, too.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I was wrong to do that, and I\u2019m going to try to do better\u201d should be in all our repertoires.<\/p>\n Hey, you women out there.\u00a0 I got one for you: You know if a guy grabs the butt of a woman he finds attractive and when she objects he\u2019ll make the, \u201cIt\u2019s the testosterone, I couldn\u2019t help it\u201d excuse? Know how we don\u2019t have any real sympathy for that? Then why should we expect sympathy … <\/p>\n
[1]<\/a> Not if.\u00a0 When.\u00a0 We all do screw up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"