There is a difference between men and women

This is something I learned at a very early age. I was born in the 60’s which was a strange time for me. I remember little snippets of things like the time my favorite aunt took me to go to the movie theater on the Navy base to see the new Disney movie “Blackbeards Ghost”. Even today, one of my favorite movies to watch, thank you aunt Betty. Or watching “Born Free” at a baby sitters house. This was a time that while people where wearing tie dye t-shirts and protesting something I didn’t understand at the time, I still saw women wearing dresses, and men wearing suits. That right there was a hint to me that there was a difference. Another difference was the shape of people, men were taller and barrel chested while women had a different chest shape. Girls and boys had different interests also. Girls were playing with dolls like Barbie (that doll had everything from cloths to houses with a Corvette convertable car in the garage while boys had ‘action figures’ of GI Joe. Mine had an Army Jeep with a Howitzer, but I also had steel Tonka trucks and steel Tonka bulldozers. My mom had a hard time keeping my pants patched at the knees because I must have put over a million miles on my Tonka toys. At the time, the girls were playing with their doll houses and us boys were playing cowboys and indians with our cap guns outside. The girls didn’t want to get dirty playing with us boys and us boys had no interest playing with the girls with their doll houses, not that we were ever invited which was fine with us. Remember the riddle “Girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice while boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails” only in the version I first heard was mud and snails and puppy dog tails.

Children naturally played differently and had seperate interests. Girls were in dresses and had their hair in pony tails with little pink hair clips and us guys were in jeans and t-shirts and short hair. Guys liked sports, and when girls played sports with us, we had to be gentle. In dodge ball, we couldn’t throw as hard on the girls because we could hurt them. Even in the third grade, an eight year old boy could hurt an eight year old girl with a hard throw, and throwing hard was the idea of dodgeball. In football, you would tackle the guy with the ball and in baseball, you would slide into base. Guys were always getting dirty.

Sometime in the early 70’s, I got a look at my first Playboy. There I saw girls, but they were much different than the girls in school. I saw the ‘Vargas girls’ and they wore dresses, or shorts and sometimes shear clothing. It was obvious that girls and boys were not the same. Biologically, we are different. Boys/men have external plumbing and girls/women have internal plumbing. When I got into Jr High school, biology class, we learned about genes and DNA, those things that are the blueprints that make us who we are. Those super small things like chromosomes that determine at conception what gender you will be. XX or XY, female or male. XX being what in science is called homogametic or two of the same chromosome while XY is male or heterogametic, two different chromosomes. Each cell in our bodies has this DNA blueprint which tells the cell what it is and its function like a heart cell will pump whereas a liver cell with filter and an eye cell will translate light (rods and cones). Now the moment the sperm cell (male) fertilizes the egg cell (female) the conceived cell starts dividing, but the blueprint for the person is already locked. The DNA strand dictates biologically that persons sex, or gender, hair color, skin coloreye color, basically the biological person. Environment will also effect that person, but the important and unchangeable part is locked away in each of that persons cells. It is called the ‘miricle of life’ and when you study it, it really is a miricle.

I believe in God, not a god with a small g, but God, the God of Abraham, the God of the Bible. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit triune God. And it really is a miricle that is indescribable how everything a person will biologically be is created at conception.

Maurice Chevalier sang a great song entitled “Thank heaven for little girls”. I have to agree. The movie “Adams Rib” has a great scene in it called viva la difference. Yes, thank God for the difference between men and women. That little difference in chromosomes make a big difference in people. It is only a woman that can give birth. And I think I am safe in saying that if men could give birth, the human race would die out rather quickly. Think about it, humans have only 23 pairs of chromosomes and just look at the variety of unique humans are in this world with just 23 pairs of these micro mini things that we can’t see with the naked eye. No surgery can change this DNA pattern. The cells themselves are locked in function, dictated by the very DNA blueprint created at conception. No elixer, no chemical compound, no scalpel can change what the cells are programmed to do. I have to laugh at the thought of some transgender person that had surgery to make a guy look like a girl and he still has to get a prostate exam. Just because a surgeon cut things off and made a guy ‘look’ like a girl will not change the fact that every cell in his body is clearly programmed at conception to be and act like a biological male. You removed the spout, added pillows to the chest and slapped lipstick on the lips to ‘look’ like a girl but you can’t fool your DNA…you are now a biological male that has been not neutered, but mutilated.

I look at my grand children and wish that they could have the childhood that I did. I hope that they retain their childlike innocence for as long as possible. We need to protect or children from corrupt ideas. Let our children have a childhood. Let them discover the world in time. Don’t let some corrupt people spoil the child like innocence of our youth, that would be childish. Thank God for our children and thank God for the difference between XX and XY.