I wasn’t implying that we are all delicate wishy washy and waiting to be rescued from the tower. I just meant that there are certain general attributes that women have (such as sensitivity to others and binah yeseirah) and those that men have. Women are allowed to be tough – I never said anything to the contrary, what I wrote specifically was ‘hard’ – ie insensitive to others. Sensitivity is part of being a mother – which normal woman can ignore the sound of her child (or any child) in pain, for instance?
When you wrote about epidurals, I also found that quite funny. I think that they have their place but too many women go for the ‘weak’ option before really trying to cope without it. Just to give you a measure of how I don’t think that women are supposed to be delicate little flowers, I gave birth to my daughter with no pain relief except for laughing gas and did not speak a word or make a sound throughout the entire thing.