If Men Could Menstraute and The Great Lawsuit

“If Men Could Menstrate” was by far my favorite article. It provides a hilarious picture of men stepping into women’s shoes. My favorite part of this article was picturing them boasting and creating slang phrases about the menstrual cycle. When I was reading this article, I noticed that it was making fun of men, their pride and their peculiar ways. I, for one, would not want to be around a man while he was menstruating. This was a very well written article that had me laughing. It also had me thinking “Yeah! Go women!” It completely changed my attitude about menstrual cycles. 

But this has me thinking of the things that women do that are the opposite of what men do. An example: most men want to be big, while most women aim to be small. It would be a strange funny world to see very buff women walking around with their arms slung over the very skinny shoulders of their boyfriends. While the men wore dresses and the women wore classic pants and white tees. Or if men shaved their legs and women didn’t. Ooh those pasty legs!

This article also makes me think of women’s and men’s roles throughout history. I can picture it starting with the cavemen. The men hunted the women gathered. Then as time goes on I guess it goes back and forth between man being more superior than women and reverse throughout history. Sadly, it hasn’t been even in the account of years. But we can see moments where women were not thought of as inferior… It has been changing, however, because Cleopatra was a leader of the most prosperous civilization in Egypt. Then I guess it would be presidents. And now there has been the first women senator. Now there are many women in politics… including one who will likely run again for President.

Talking about the roles of women and men offers a great transition into the next piece of writing, “The Great Lawsuit”. I believe that the most powerful paragraph in this writing was the second to last one. This is where Margret Fuller takes both men and women in our minds and seamlessly joins them together. She turns the ‘written in stone’ roles into something more malleable and pliable. “…we believe that the Divine would ascend into nature to a height unknown in the history of past ages, and nature, thus instructed, would regulate the spheres not only so as to avoid collision, but to bring forth ravishing harmony.” Margret Fuller uses this sentence to show that what is happening is different from what normally happens. It has never been done before, “…to a height unknown in the history of past ages, and nature…” But she believes it will not only not end in war, but “ravishing harmony”. That it will make the human race stronger “the Divine would ascend into nature”. Almost Godly.