Is that supposed an Who reference?

I blame Christina Aguilera for a lot of this rubbish.

Oh, boys will be boys but girls will be women.

Actually, very true.

It's what I've always believed.

Quite profound.

I have some very personal opinions about that very notion.

It's connected inexorably to puberty and millennia-old cultural projections.

M*nstruation as an integral, focal part of the female experience of child-to-adult transformation is the key to it all.

Boys don't experience that obviously, thus they're both not forced to accept an inexorable, biological drive taking place beyond the ego/self as girls are.

Girls/women have to face it at an emotionally, shockingly early time of development - it's a trauma, it's burdensome, it wrenches the child from childhood, yet it also allows them to face the future and the universe with an eternal, infinite, cosmically charged sense of the world-weary yet fatalistically pragmatic.

Boys don't have that honour.

Or power.

Boys/men conjure up their sense of power through genetically predetermined factors and - more haplessly - through a sense that they control their s*xual/procreative identities.

Men do not control it.

Instead, many men blame women for having power over them simply by being one half of the inevitable procreative plug-socket dynamic.

I have more opinions.

Apparently there was a session (easy now!) with Nile Rodgers, but nothing came of it.

Because she's too good for Nile Rodgers hand me downs.