So many guys have it easy.  No make-up to worry about, gut size doesn’t matter, clothes (and shopping for them) is very simple.  Men can be easily entertained for hours in front of a TV – God forbid you try to wrestle it out of their hands – and leave the house a total mess.  It just doesn’t register on their “I care” scale.   One day, while I mused about how complicated it is to live the female life, I asked the women in the office what advantage or “ease in life” they had over men.  Not one came up with a good answer.  One tried…she said, “I don’t have to shave everyday.”  Well I had news for her.  I have to shave both legs every day (I get 4:00 p.m. shadow), many more square inches than a guy.  And guys can simply grow beards!

If you are male and reading this…please know, I’m not generalizing.  There are good guys, too.  But admit it….you do have an easier time.  Guys can grab a bar of soap and one change of clothes and have everything they need to travel (soap shampoo, soap toothpaste, soap for the body, and even soap to wash their clothes if they forgot their second outfit.  Twenty year olds will still marry you, even if you are 80.  Now that’s telling it all.  Read on:

 Born Female 

-by Linda Athis

I wore no bra.
I did not bathe…
nor shave
my legs bearing half-inch hair.

I scratched and belched,
and had no care.
Turned on the TV,
and ruled the remote.

I zoned into a blank,
uncaring stare,
watching war and blood,
crime, celebrity, cruel sport,
and babes with glittered hair.

My conscience rebelled
with guilt. Unfair!
Too bad, too bad.
I did not care!

I needed this day,
This rest from hell,
to discover a world,
where I might have been male.

We spent with random.
Checked our beauty in mirrors.
Saved for big city trips,
and shopped with no fear.

Shoe boxes stacked high,
new clothes piled on arms.
We giggled, burst with joy,
under the weight
of too much youth.

So glad we indulged
in that sudden explosion
of rough, young blood in the veins.
Embracing the sliver of time
when you mistake the world as yours.