Fun & Famous

WHAT MEN CAN'T HANDLE

and women can

Recently, a man asked me if I could take a look at his eyebrow. He thought that two hairs were suddenly sticking out in a very strange way, and he didn't like it at all. “See, I'm really getting old and getting those crazy old-man eyebrows.” Now, it wasn't that bad at all, but there were indeed two or three specimens that were happily jumping against the traffic.. “No problem,” I said, “I'll get those out in no time.”

I grabbed my tweezers and the fear in his eyes became visible. With big puppy eyes, he looked at my Tweezerman and stammered something about “uhm, uh, what are you going to do? Do you really have to? No, you know what, just forget it.” I sighed a bit about how men always make a fuss and parked the Tweezerman on his eyebrow, instructing him not to move. “It's really so quick and there are literally just three hairs.” I placed the tweezers on it, pulled the hair out, and almost went deaf.

A scream that came out of him, I had never heard anything that loud. As if I was personally pulling his left leg off his torso, he rolled over, dramatically placing his hand on his forehead and lamenting for minutes about how FUCKING much pain that caused, YES..

I sat there, watching, and thought about the hundreds of waxing sessions I have undergone, the dozens of eyebrow sessions in salons, and the countless mornings when I plucked my wildly growing eyebrows in front of my own mirror. About the years of torture from monthly bleeding that I now never have thanks to an IUD, but of which I still vividly recall the back pain, cramping limbs, and never-ending stomach pains. Or what about the thousands of kilometers I have walked in heels, sometimes with pleasure, but often with burning pains and dying toes?

They say that women can endure more pain because they have to push a child out at some point, and that their bodies therefore have a higher pain threshold. When I have removed all three (THREE) hairs from the man in question a quarter of an hour later and he laments asking for an ice pack and is startled to see that it is a very, very tiny bit red in the treated area, I think that might be true.

Men. We should also give them a little break because sometimes they are just like little girls.