The Taming Of Her Adrenaline…

We have got stuck historically. Why have we forgotten that we had a life before Eden?

 

Today unless we address the neglected genetic issues of our adrenaline - we will continue to flounder about ourselves. To understand, we have to go back to the time before Eve.

Genetically we were predators, and women were the fiercer sex when provoked. There was a time when she was a loner who went about fending for her own pregnancy, the survival of her babies, the killing of animals for food for herself and her babies - the boys simply pushed off after sex.

The biblical Garden of Eden was about a point in history around the time just before the agriculture era started. That is when people started becoming civilized packs. The time when the division of labor happened, resulting in women staying home while the men hunted – the interdependency made women live longer.

It suited us just fine.

It was the beginning of an era of dependency for her. Dependency is not a genetic trait. It requires the suppression of aggression. It took a lot of hard work suppressing aggression especially that directed towards competing with men. But as a compromise for survival it seemed trivial. 

It resulted in what happened around this time. The great sexual trade-off between Mankind and Womankind. (Was it really kind)?

Politeness became the keyword. “Excuse me, darling, can you please kill a rhino, while I get the baby’s ass - hole cleaned?”

It was also around this time, that the female orgasm was invented. It made the macho male feel like a supersonic stud. (Even then he had problems about his macho-ness?). But it certainly had its merits. It inspired him to go out and hunt - for her (and them).

It suited the ladies well. Since she was not the hunter anymore, she lived longer, had more babies. She now even had a male who was killing rhinos (maybe dinos?) -  Every day for her and her babies.

She cooked, and she served the rhinos (or whatever else) that her husband killed.

Then she slept in the afternoons – Exhausted?

This aspect worries me. What about the adrenaline? 

What about the eons of genetic evolution, when women were fierce carnivorous predators, that finally petered down to dependency? As a hunter and killer she was responsive to her genetics. But trained dependency was handed down from generation to generation, polished and nurtured – till, today, when there is respectability in her lack of aggression and in her parasitical behavior.

This is not in tune with her. It is simply not her nature, however hard she works to make it so.

The issues on women that need to be addressed today is -- what evokes their killer spirit? Are they becoming genetically stupid? Her stresses need questioning. Is living with men so stressful? Is deciding recipes and menus for pre- killed meat so difficult? Does she miss the hunt?  Nobody knows, not even Google.

Research proves that women produce more Adrenaline than men. What do women do with it?

Ask any kind of doctor and they will tell you that misguided Adrenaline is dangerous. They call it the ‘fight or flight’ reaction to stress. If you cannot express your response to stress with action, then your adrenaline causes all kinds of mental and physical trouble.

Women have it different or worse.

Tracey Shors, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Rutgers University has researched on the effects of stress on males and females. Men get sharper, women simply shut down.

Based on research, she speculates -"You can imagine why a male would learn better after a short-term stressful experience," she says. "Maybe he almost got killed, or he almost got eaten by a predator. In that case, maybe he better pay attention to what's going on, to where that predator came from, to what tree he's hiding in, and not go over there again. It’s surprising and as-yet-unknown why the response would be the opposite in female rats,” Shors says. Conceivably, it could be a way of shutting down procreation when environmental stress is high. "You could say that's not a good time to bring young into the world," she says. "But it's all speculation”.

She says “All you can really say now is, stress changes the brain.' I think the fact that males and females react differently to stress tells you this is not going to be a simple thing to figure out."

It would be logical to ask, why?

The natural way is to attack and fight when faced with danger, not shut down. The switch off is about social conditioning.

Psychologist Ruth Moulton, calls it the ‘good girl syndrome’. She says major psychological problems of women stem from “the early inhibition of all assertion and sometimes of all physical activity which was considered either dangerous or ‘unladylike.’”

If your man is hunting for you (or bread winning), stress by proxy does not help either. Dependency makes you worry more.

The more dependent the women the less her energy level – Ask any housewife and she will claim that she deserves her afternoon nap. Ask any doctor and he will have a prescription for depression, blood pressure, exhaustion, or simply lack of self esteem or what ever. That is also another expression of misguided adrenaline.

We can always say what is the fuss? Women today have equality with men in every way. But we are not talking about going to the moon or doing the bread-winning, we are talking about an environment that is not favorable to the evolution of the female species.

Unless we allow the old ruthlessness that was a way of life and survival to emerge, she will always be short charged. This is not about being equal to men, or even being independent of them, but about expressing a personality that has not been around for a long time. She has become polite. It is becoming a handicap. All she has to do is make it a removable handicap. She does not know how? Nobody else knows how anymore.

Has there been a real Evolution for women? Living in an environment that trains and encourages dependency makes it questionable. 

Our inspiration for our evolution and for our future lies in the past – Our fierce identity. Us - before Eden.

Last we heard about Eve was that “God told her not to have sex. And she did”.

Every woman would have been alright, if only Eve had obeyed.

Copyright © 2014, Lima Sehgal
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