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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.