Delicate Flower or Steel Magnolia- Women Aren't as Delicate as Men Think They Are

Women are truly fascinating creatures…and a total contradiction at any given moment. I just thought I'd throw that out in case there's a man around who has yet to learn the facts of feminine life…or had managed to forget it.

Stop and think about it. Many's the woman who refuses to stay in the same room with a mouse…even when the mouse is trapped in a trash can and can't get near her…yet thinks nothing of crawling thru spiders, bugs and other assorted vermin to rescue a kitten trapped under a house.

More than a few women will literally shake in their high heels if you so much as show them a picture of a gun. But… those same women would kill you without so much as batting an eye in order to protect their children. And they wouldn't hesitate to use one of the guns whose picture gives them the shakes to do the deed.

Starting to think that women aren't quite as delicate as you might have thought? That's progress, but let's go back in history and see just how strong some women really were and how incredibly delicate many men considered them.

Back in 1620, when the Mayflower made it's first voyage to the New World, the trans-Atlantic trip wasn't for the faint of heart. Yet women endured the journey, including storms, sea sickness and short rations, just as well as the men…and sometimes better.

Incidentally, women do one thing that men have never done and will never do…unless things change radically…and that's to give birth to children. Childbirth still isn't easy, but imagine what it was like in the late 1500s - early 1600s in a virgin land populated with wild animals, disease and indigenous natives who may or may not look on you as invaders to be destroyed. And they say women are delicate! Hmm-m-m-mph!