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30. Many women like to tell their "war stories".

I'm not sure why. For many women in the post WWII period, maybe it was their response to the attention that their husbands received from telling about their actual war experiences.

Maybe some women are just seeking a sense of validation and credit for what they went through, and the people in their lives closest to them aren't giving them what they need.

It would be interesting to learn about the sorts of stories that women in different cultures share. I bring that thought up because I re-read your points about evolution. In one joint biology/anthropology class, we were shown drawings of three female pelvises (pelvi?) with an infant's skull emerging.

The first was a chimpanzee. From the point of view of the drawing, it was clear that there was plenty of room between the pelvic bones and the hard skull of the infant.

The second was Austrolapithicus, (excuse me while I look that word up), Australopithecus. The drawing indicated that the fit was considerably tighter between momma's bones and baby's bony head. It still looked doable, however.

Then there was Homo Sapiens. Based on the drawing, it appeared to be an impossible feat of physics for that head to emerge from that pelvis. The fact that it has happened literally billions of times on this earth doesn't diminish its essential illogic. It cannot be done. . . And yet it is.

There are some Biblical scholars who say that the story of Genesis and the curse laid upon Eve that her childbearing should be in pain is an allegory. Our big brains, which are the source of our "Knowledge of Good and Evil" are what make the prospect of giving birth so dicey. Getting kicked out of the Garden where life was simple is also seen as an allegory when we went from being animals with limited knowledge who lived directly with nature, to complex, moral beings who had to alter nature and its gifts to survive.