The Weaker Sex a Dying Breed
The other day I was washing my hands in the restroom at work. A lady I know ran a comb through her hair and said to me, “Doesn’t thin hair suck?” I agreed and started telling her about how mine started falling out a few years ago. She informed me (though I already knew) that it was stress and nerves. I’ve come to find out that there are a number of men at my place of work who have wives struggling with one or more ailments. It used to be that women almost always out-lived their husbands. It’s not that way anymore. And my feeling about it is that it’s largely because women are now forced to work harder than they were created to, and they cannot stop even when they become old. They care for their own children, then possibly their grand children. Before they die, they care for their ailing parents. And many hold down a full time job while doing all of these things. Add on the stress of the money problems many of us face these days. As a kid, back in the 1970’s and ‘80’s, I r