JSTFU About That About Which You Know So Little

For me, I am never at a loss of having something to carp about. Finding the time, energy and will to carp about it is another story. The latest attack on my sensibility is two commercials. The first is for some drug to control fibromyalgia. It pisses me off. The shill begins by talking about the chronic pain and then informs us that doctors say it’s ‘over-active nerves.” I bet they lost sleep coming up with that explanation. But wait, maybe they just consulted with the drug for “over-active” bladder! Yeah, that’s the ticket. Given that both are primarily women’s issues, is it any wonder that both conditions are due to an over-active state? After all, in truth aren’t women supposed to be passive.
It’s ludicrous. Given the deterioration of our air, our food, our water; the “over-active” rush of chemical pollutants into every corner of the earth, must it come as a complete surprise that some women might become overly-sensitive to all this CRAP?! Might it not be possible that these conditions are due to some CRAP that’s in their environment?! Or the absence of any good, organic mineral in our food?!
This is just the newest version of ‘hysteria’, ‘women’s diseases’, and all the other failed medical doctrines throughout his-story. I don’t know who is stupider, the men who concoct this BS or the women who believe it. Such stupidity wears on me and wears me out. Oh, and women, be sure and don’t drive or use machinery when taking these pills. Telling women not to drive etc, doesn’t that sound familiar? In the same way we weren’t supposed to ride horses, ride bicycles, exercise? Didn’t we hear a lot of that last century? And the one before that? This tag line is never delivered in a Viagra commercial for instance. I suppose a 4-hour erection leads men to drive BETTER!
For the sake of what little sanity I have left after the constant onslaught of this sort of nonsense, I have to believe that men, perhaps, mean well in their errant analyses of ‘women’s problems’, but, as a famous, female feminist whose name escapes me just now said: My next essay will be on how it feels to get kicked in the balls.