8 August

I think a major difference between men and women is that you can go through life as a man almost completely ignoring that you're a biological creature. You could just as well be a robot, your biology rarely gets your attention. Whereas being a woman seems intrinsically biological at least every month, plus growing and giving birth to children, hormonal fluctuations etc. It feels like women are therefore more attuned to the biological reality of being a human. Only sickness breaks the spell, for men, which is maybe why they often don't respond well to sickness. They have almost no experience at dealing with the realities of being biological.