Final Blogtastic Reflection (#4)

For my final blog reflection for 4th quarter, I chose "Blagojevich on 'Celebrity Apprentice'" as my favorite blog post. The reason I like this one so much is because I feel very strongly about the subject. This usually characterizes my favorite posts. When you're really passionate about what you're writing about, it just makes it a lot more fun to write. And when I saw that Blagojevich was on a reality t.v. show and not in jail, I was just outraged. I was also able to incorporate a bunch of sources in this post, which I think adds depth and more credibility to a post. And from those sources, I used direct quotes and dissected them to prove my point even more. It just had more substance than some of my other posts.
This year I have really developed as a blogger. Not that I blogged before this class, but my style has changed since the beginning of the year. I started my blogging career by mostly writing about certain issues that I encountered in my everyday life, but didn't necessarily connect to class. But as the year continued, my posts started to become extensions of class discussions, which is what I think Mr. Bolos and Mr. O'Connor intended them to be. And when I could not extend the discussion to my blogging, I wrote about prominent issues in the news. Not always, but I tried to.
I have really enjoyed blogging this year because I do like to write, but essays can often times be laborious and they take a long time to do. On the other hand, a blog post doesn't have to be long. You can write a little about a lot, and that's what I've really liked about blogging this year.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Strength and Pain

     A few days ago in class we discussed the difference between men's and women's sports and athleticism and all that good stuff. But this reminded of this theory I have. First, I think it can be universally aknowledged that men are more physically built than women. Men are just naturally stronger than women. But this is where my theory comes in. I think women can handle more pain than men. And I look at this from two ways: personal experience and biologically. First the personal experience. Whenever I have a stomach ache or a headache, I still go school. I pop an advil and suck it up. But my brother, and not to beat on him or anything, but if he gets a stomach ache at school, he comes home. Maybe it's just him, but a little stomach ache never gave me a reason to go home. Ok, and now looking from a biological standpoint. From what I hear childbirth=pain, and lots of it. If men were the ones to give birth, there's wouldn't be any people left. But like I said, it's just a theory, and it's very hard to prove either way. In fact, in this article from MedicineNet, it says that "there are so many overlays of societal and cultural norms and other factors that go into the reporting of pain that it may not have a biological basis at all." This article suggests that men have a higher tolerance to pain than women. They concluded this by performing different pain tests on both genders, including tolerance to heat. However, the article also acknowledges that the experiments can sometimes be inaccurate, and that there are many factors to be considered. But I stand by what I said: men are physically stronger than women, but women can handle more pain than men. What do you think?
Posted by at

1 comment:

  1. Anna.SFebruary 21, 2010 at 1:12 PM

    Actually, my brother and I were talking about this one time. He told me that, while the average woman has a higher pain threshold, for the reasons you mentioned (birth/pms), men have a better memory of pain. This makes sense in the cave man's world, if you think about it-- a man is outside, likely to be injured from, let's say, a thorny bush. After touching that bush once, he's going to be biologically hardwired to remember thorny bush=painful. A woman probably had fewer problems like this, or at least when she was gathering berries or whatever they ate, she would be able to ignore her pain better so that she could keep collecting fungi and roots (I really don't know what people ate back in the day).

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)