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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Getting kicked in the balls vs. giving birth.

I browse Yahoo answers a lot and I find this specific question a lot after looking up how many times it has been asked.

It's stupid.  (what I do with my time).  but I wanted to write my answer to these closed questions in a fair way after reading all the responses.

I am a woman so I wouldn't exactly know the experiences of what it is like being kicked in the balls, but nor did I ever give birth to compare anything to, so I am using my imagination.

First off, the experience of pain depends on the person.
There was an account of a woman who laughed all throughout her delivery and there was a video of a skater dude slam his balls on the end of a rail thereby breaking his ball sac, but then smile at his girl friend as he cupped his balls.

In alphabetical order if you must.  

For "men":

Why it is:

The penis is full of nerve endings, so a kick to the balls hits all the nerve endings. Simply it.
The "del" or "dol"  system seems inaccurate in many ways, but birthing pain has been often described in terms of the pain scale(1-10).  0-3 means that you can ignore the pain and do any activities without it in mind.  4-6 means that pain is constantly in your mind but you can still do virtually any activity.  7-9 means that  you only think about the pain and you can't do anything else.  10 is included but inconceivable in all human experiences unless you are maybe dead.  A doctor who hears a "10" won't respect your opinion.   For men, I would assume the pain to be around 7-9 because of the "throwing up" responses I often here as responses and because I could imagine some men fainting at 9.  In rare cases it might cause death. 
men were not made to be kicked in the balls.  

Why it doesn't seem like it is
A man only experiences this pain for a much shorter period of time than women do for pregnancy.  
He wears a cup during sports but not while he is walking around on the streets thereby allowing a vulnerable EXTREMELY, 10+,  painful spot be exposed like he doesn't care.  Some men say they don't want to wax like women do because going so will be painful.  Men do support and such even knowing that doing so will produce a greater chance of injury over there.   There was a tv special about a man who had his penis surgically removed (with pain medications of course) and there must also be transgenders also from men to women (but in all honesty I don't know how transgender surgery happens).  

inaccuracies/bias in statements.  

1.  When a man asks this question on YA!, he often chooses another man's response that often supports his thoughts on getting kicked in the balls as worse as the best answer despite all the other responses by women or men saying giving birth is worse.  the Same goes for women who ask this question. 


2.  The dol or del experiment is inaccurate in supporting men's views because it produces a lot of unanswered questions:  How did they test it?  Who volunteered to test it?  What is a tangible measurement of "dol?" (besides that it comes from dolor).  How many subjects did they have?  Who tested it? Why would someone volunteer to test it?  and if they did it on an animal, how did they measure their responses?  Why wouldn't hitting an animal's balls be caught as animal cruelty?  and Why are all the top sites listed for this experiment listed in comments or forums?  In fact, I looked up "dol experiment," and it was corrected to "doll experiment" (for black and whites choosing black or white dolls).  I also looked up "del experiment" in the google search engine and found nothing related such as "lana del rey."    Another problem with this experiment is that, when it is referenced, there are different results listed with the "del" listed.  I've heard 9000 and 3000 and over 9000 for the del or dol listed for men, and 47 or near there for people in general, and I heard 97 or a number a little over 50 for giving birth for women.  Also the sheer fact that some people say "dol" and others say "del" discredits this experiment as even existing.  Also, the dol experiment doesn't make any sheer sense in numbers?  why is the maximum experience listed at "40-something" but the pain that men experience is in the thousands.  even the fact that women's numbers are higher than 40-something means that the maximum pain experienced by people in general is wrong.  Some people wrongly put it as men experience it as 47 out of 9000 each time until 9000 is up.  If that is the case, how can 9000 be a conceivable experience?

3.  Anyone who asks this question never specifies how hard it was hit: to the asker who was probably a man: was a rope simply pulled under you?  Did you fall on your balls?  did you fall from skateboarding, did somebody come at you there with a knife?  Was a 9000lb weight dropped on it? Did somebody kick you lightly there by accident while you as a little boy stood in front of your father while he kicked to get up?  Did you get lightly kicked there during sex?  Did somebody do a full frontal attack on you in your balls out of anger?  How many times was the man hit?


4.  Some men report to be hit all the time,  in that case, that's unfortunate for that person and would be a major flaw in that body if he were to experience so much pain in his life and not adjust. If the a pain of that specific person was that high, then maybe he should just wear a cup.  




 For "women":
Giving birth  
Why it seems like it is. 
A woman in labor has often been around 7-9 (where some women faint at 9). 
Even though women's vaginas were made to give birth and take the pain of it, sometimes it tears during delivery, sometimes but rarely it causes death, and sometimes a c-section is necessary. 
When the pain medication wears off there is only pain for recovery.
A decision to have a second child doesn't discount the pain felt at one point.  
A woman experiences the pain for a longer period of time.  First, 9 months, then delivery, then recovery.  During recovery and 9 months pregnancy she probably experiences less than 7 because she can still move around and read. 


Why it seems like it isn't:
Women were made to give children and take both the delivery and 9-months without going to the hospital. 
There are often pain medications available, for the unfortunate ones: its hard labor.  For the many countries with no medication, there is only birthing pain for women.
Some women will still go through that pain again for another child.  


inaccuracies/bias in statements.   
1.  When a woman asks this question on YA!, she often chooses another woman's response that often supports her thoughts on giving birth as worse as the best answer despite all the other responses by women or men saying getting kicked in the balls is worse.  the Same goes for men who ask this question. 



conclusion:
I would say they are about the same.  For a pregnancy that runs smoothly and for a man who had a ball kicked there.  The man may initially feel a little more pain at first, but it dies down quickly unless there is a lasting injury.  the woman in pregnancy feels a lot of pain for a longer period of time.  For the men who have a ninja kick there and the woman who undergoes a complicated (and without pain medications) for pregnancy and both faint would experience like a 9.  I was measuring the pain at one time,  a man should recover faster because it was a one shot pain at one time without being too serious an injury (unless there is that's another problem), and a woman just experiences it for longer.  A women needs to stay at a hospital for delivery and follow ups, but a man doesn't need to be hospitalized if it wasn't too serious.    Maybe cancer is more serious than both even if the pain may be less the entire time because there is hospitalization for that "serious" problem.

And then there's this guy:


You know after watching videos like
I'm starting to think pregnancy hurts more. 

 


Thursday, September 13, 2012

Is college a good investment these days?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120911110618AARIsoZ&cp=10

no:
Why? because of our system called capitalism.
When Obama or any other politician says at the end of his term: "we have created 1000s more jobs."  They really just made 1000s more Mcjobs and what are Mcjobs other than low paying, low skilled labor?

We must consider that the main reason anyone wants to go to college is to get a job "survival" in educated society (when the average intelligence level of everyone is middle school level). I was watching the news one day and the newswoman said : "I know it doesn't seem worth it, but trust me you need a diploma because all those higher paying jobs out there require a diploma."  It's true, but capitalism doesn't speak utilitarian.  Those higher paying jobs are given to people from other colleges (better ones) or illegal immigrants with equivalent qualifications that the corporations don't want to pay as highly.

The biggest problem with this question is that education must be seen as an "investment."  It takes respect out of education to be called an "investment" because it is seen merely as a means to an end rather than a search for a truth or a betterment of oneself.  Because of capitalism, everything in society has a monetary value and is expressed monetarily.   Noam Chomsky said, "The purpose of education is so that one may be able to teach themselves and discover something."  (not exactly)  If that was held to be truth coming from a scholar: Why must a young adult go to college for the proof of knowledge (a diploma) if they could not just educate themselves?  In this sense the education system has failed in america.  because the fact of the matter is we couldn't teach ourselves.

but we can regurgitate.  In a politician's page there is always something about improving the education system.  They can mean well, but never follow through.  In our society of the US of A, a politician has a high probability of failing to make anything good out of "improving education."  Why?  because capitalism by its core meaning of (purposely)limited supplies and limited amount of job positions raises generations of class disputes and teaches our youth that only the most pushy and aggressive will survive in this economy.

Why else is it that the 10 least useful majors ranked by many are arts and humanities majors?  It shows how the arts and humanities have fallen from power and favor.  The 10 most useful are science and math majors.  This surely takes the right livelihood out of education.  Consistently near the top are: business and economics that goes along nicely with the capitalism.  Nowadays, people grudgingly go with these majors for the money not because they like it, but because their livelihood will surely come from it even though a person would have been better of as a philosophy and could have come up with some majorly important philosophical idea!  It is a utopian ideal for a person to willingly choose to go to college to learn what they want because they want to.  The professor-student relationship would be better, and people would be rightfully in their place.

Also, there is that problem with the $50000/year price tag.  This price tag does not allow people to freely go where they want.  This price tag and other bills are a method for the government to control its people.  You may work to go to college, but you'll also be paying 30% in taxes for a war you don't even care about, and then you will get your paycheck and pay an additional state tax for the groceries you just bought.  In the end you have a little more than half your salary.  the minimum wage of 8/ hour is a complete lie.  The government uses your expenses to keep you where you are and since states have boarders and residency, you must ask for permission to go anywhere.  so think about it: 50 gran a year multiplied by 4 years is $200,000 that you would have eventually paid by the end of your life and it is impossible to get rid of it even by declaring bankruptcy!  You'll get your little more than low paying job to pay that one off for life on top of your son's college bill and your mortgages, car expenses, and etc. etc.

Excuse my grammar/spelling errors.  I was in rage!!!
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April 5 conclusion:

  • Paying for education is just paying to be graded.  It is a lie to say that grades are not a value of your self worth because your GPA may determine whether or not you get your first job at a certain company.
  • Also, the government shouldn't fund education because improving education for everyone doesn't improve the chances that everyone will get a job.  The number of jobs will always remain limited with the policy the USA follows.  








Thursday, July 12, 2012

Yes I have no soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx8obpx4844&feature=player_embedded
Why? because I grew up thinking that everything should be shared and that the media has too much power anyways.  The one who loses her job is a member of the working class.  The working class more directly suffers from the stealing of movies than do people in power.  aka.  the people in power esp. in the media redirected their suffering to workers in their company giving the message that you hurt a number of your own if you steal.  Therefore, this video is effective in instigating sympathy in the "stealer."   I don't steal movies because they are major works that took many years.  I have respect for movies.  But for t.v. shows and music, I stream.  I don't steal necessarily, but I don't buy either, and I don't have less respect or contempt for those who do.  Our generation (10-30 years (huge range) grew up in a culture learning that listening to music is free and so paying for it is not worth it).  Because otherwise,  people should no longer go to shopping malls, inside stores, or any institution without feeling the need to pay (this would be better for society anyways).  People shouldn't club without having to pay for the appearance of "free" music.  Also, there should be no showing of any outdoor movies or free showings without having the people feel the need to pay.  The existing fan basis for hundreds of movies and T.V. shows should also be 10x smaller.  but these things are free from time to time and because we were raised to think music is free due to listening on the radio, mall music and etc, the higher institutions should not punish us for how (we are raised)/ (they raised us) to think.  Stealing doesn't benefit anyone.  It hurts, and anyone who has been stolen from should know, but (directed to CEOs and etc. making millions/billions), paying less tax than the general population can also be considered as good as stealing (and also as dishonest as stealing).

Sunday, July 1, 2012

the amazing spider man (huh) and the dark knight rises (huh again)

Where's the originality? Why do something that's already there?---oh yeah duh. to profit from.  The first spider man must've been lucrative enough to continue recreating the spider man series.  but fucking hell (i've been saying that a lot).  It's only been like 5 years since spider man 3 came out.  Where's the originality these days in creating a new superhero and not just re-doing the old one? Are production companies not willing to take the risk? and put their fate into the hands of (at least) a new super hero?  (instead of rely upon the pre-existing fan base of old American comic based heroes).  Compare this to Japan: a new super hero every season.  Their was Guilty Crown and Tiger and Bunny recently and then there was Astroboy and Sailor moon in the past.  Gundam is constantly being recreated, but that's seriously OLD! Naruto and Bleach are also super OLD.  Generally long running manga lose their fan base after a while, but unlike spiderman, neither of them are done yet. (bleach soon though).  There will hopefully be NO Bleach 2.    I am sick and tired of Spiderman this and spiderman that.  The previous spiderman as a whole was an okay-pretty good work and recreation already.   Batman is also doing the same thing.  Shame on Christopher Nolan for the Batman series and Marc Webb for the Spiderman series.  Give the new age a new hero and let the old ones stand as legends!


2002



2012


Spiderman vs "The Amazing
Too soon to be recreated.  And it seems as though the filming style changed just by looking at the posters.  I personally don't like the newer style of filming because it is more action, less story.  Or that the action and the effects are given so much attention (bling-bling) that the story is very much secondary. I must admit that I haven't watched it though.  The movie itself may be good, but I'm blogging about lack of character originality in this day and age and recreating too early after the spider man 3 release in 2007.  



Hunter X Hunter (Japan)



1999




2012


Hunter x Hunter is being recreated in Japan but for better purpose.  The manga is not finished, but has progressed some after the finish of Hunter x Hunter  1999.  The new Hunter x Hunter is noticeably different in quality.  It has created a fan base for the new age and is released while other superhero like characters are being created. 


Guilty Crown

Tiger and Bunny


Monday, June 11, 2012

Do you know what it feels like to be dying hungry? (actually I don't know either)



As cliché as it seems, being hungry is like having your guts knotted and squeezed without any mercy.
You lurch but there is nothing that comes out because your stomach is telling you it wants substance
In a very twisted and contradicting way.  The rumbling sounds fill your head as you lay quietly motionless blurring your existence or making it more real by reminding you that for as long as you are alive you need food, and for as long as you exist you will feel pain.  You may twist and turn your body to the side or on your belly but your stomach will prevail in its message not stopping until it is satiated. 
On your 3rd day of suffering, your stomach swells from skinny to fat becoming a container of your truest burdens and turning you into merely a wisp of your former self.  But though you are but a wisp, your stomach will be full of emotional hatred and physical emptiness that if you survive, the pain is bound to scar you if you survive.
If at some point you have crossed the line of no return.  You and your stomach will come to the ultimate realization, that pain is as real as your soul and that death—sweet rest—is desirable to your life. 

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Real Life Colors

Here's one way to perceive the world

Blood Period Red
Salmonella Pink
Traffic Cone Orange
Sickly Yellow
Deep Cannabis Green
Depression blue
albino white
Deforestation Brown
Dark Magic Purple
industry gray
Gun Powder Black

others:
bleach white
piss green
blinding white
colorless white
aged pale
Doo-doo brown
apathetic gray
racist black
racist brown
racist yellow
racist white
envious green
avarice gold
wrathful Red
slug brown
emo black

Can I have this dress in Deforestation brown?

Here's another way to perceive the world:

Romantic Red
sunshine yellow
Blush Pink
Summer Orange
lush Green
forget-me-not Blue
Pure white
Earthly Brown
vintage Gray
Midnight adventure Black


Crayola Colors
Brick Red
carnation pink
atomic tangerine
laser lemon
Blizzard Blue
Blue violet
carribean green
asparagus
antique bras
eggplant
white

Artist's colors (winsor)
Bright Red
Cadmium Scarlet
Brown Orchre
Burnt Sienna
Cadmium lemon (pale)
Cerulean Blue
cobalt green
purple madder
Blue Black
zinc white
emerald

misc food:
Raw red
wine red
carrot orange
chocolate brown
radish purple
wasabi green
seaweed green
martini blue
rice white
burnt black
blackberry


I often think:
Mother's Red
salmonella pink
corn yellow
ivory
Mondrian Gray
tree green
Father's blue
sea-foam
anime hair purple
sleek black


misc:
pikachu yellow
spongebob yellow
flesh pink
sonic blue
patriotic red
ruby red
sapphire blue
diamond white
24 K gold
taxpaper gray

ways to say rainbow: the rainbow, the spectrum, the color wheel, colorblind rainbow, rainbow unicorn, food coloring happiness, etc etc.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

english class

how can i ignore what I just saw?
If i found a loop hole?  how could I just ignore it?
The philosophical basis of the 1st amendment protects opinions like mine.  (I was the minority opinion.) While others would like to think me ridiculous for thinking it, how could i ignore it?  I saw their side of the argument.  I even think to myself that it is right.  but it can't be completely right no matter how small it was.  If every little detail was created, the bigger picture will be easier to create.  If jumping to conclusions and "agreeing with the crowd" occurs then it doesn't matter what different opinions people may have.  It is ridiculous.  Still at the same time I believe that everything in this world is good and bad.  Yin and yang. Both sides of the argument. (or why stop at 2, let's say all arguments) are equally valid to anybody as long as it has valid reasoning behind it.  The society constructs what valid reasoning is, so what does what the individual think matter?  Also, also also.
Sure you may find some contradictions, but I am worthy of them.  I know I can be contradictory, but that does not make me wrong.  It could mean that I subconsciously see both sides of an argument.  I can see communism and capitalism as equally fair and corrupt, silly, and fat.
Yeah rambling.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Tribute

You may want to see him again , but you won't because he's dead.  You can't bring back the dead even though the dead wants to be risen again.  but never to rise again <--that's the rule.  Forever in sleepless unconsciousness.  In that unknown world never to return.
exist a little longer in people's minds.  knowing people can't live forever.  we all disappear forever.  It was a good life at least.

Beauty will die.  Just come to terms with the death of everything.  Isn't that a part of growing up?  

Saturday, February 25, 2012

the sound of crying

In a way your dreams reflect your current state of mind.  Recently, I realized summer is going to happen, and that there is a good possibility that I am going to lose everyone I know (esp since I am friends with individuals not groups.)  In my dreams, people fell away in silence to the end of the world.  I woke up before everyone disappeared around me, so in the last moments before my dream ended, I panicked before the remaining familiar faces that bore a defeated expression.  It's disheartening.

We'll be on different floors, we won't have similar floormates, we won't have an in-between to talk about, we won't take the same classes.  Starting next year, I feel the connection I have with anyone now will fade away.  It has happened to me before with commuters.  The frailty of friendship.  I love them briefly and intensely then. though "we" fell away in silence so quickly afterwards.  

  


Thursday, January 26, 2012

"something" can be a cliche title


I used to be worried that I would grow old to be nothing but, but I don’t anymore.
I used to be worried that I would never experience life, never jump the cliff, never leave the nest but I don’t anymore. 
What ever I feel, What ever this feeling.  It’s liberating. 
A life without hopeful lust,  eyes without lust in them, eyes with unyielding purpose.
I live with a goal, I found a purpose. 
I’m up for the challenge, I found a challenge. 
If I live this challenge, I live life.  I live curiously, I live differently.  





Paul McCartney. 

Saturday, January 14, 2012

A lot can happen in 1 week.

  • my friend can become noticeably depressed.
  • my uncle's funeral can happen this week.
  • I can go night hiking around the city.  
  • I can find out my friend likes to put on makeup because it makes him look pretty.
  • I can find out how much tougher that cookie has gotten in Japanese.
  • I can meet an old commuter friend from a previous class who can tell me that she'll lose me as a friend one day.  
  • I can sign up for 2 intramural sports not realizing the commitments.
  • I can apply for a work study job.  
  • I can find myself struggling with Calculus 2.
  • I can find myself smiling amongst a colorful crowd.  
    • An illusion? Maybe.