What do these idiotic, repressed feminazis know about stress? Next to nothing!
I think there is a hidden lesson here.
Stress is a biochemical reaction, the boosting of cortisol and/or epinephrine in the blood. The experience of stress, therefore, is essentially the same for everyone.
The issue here would be, not the experience, but the need for the experience. Most people think they would be happy living without stress, and there evidently is an amount of stress above which life becomes difficult to intolerable. But the truth, I think, is that most people crave some level of stress--to put it another way, we need adventure, something to conquer and be victorious over, whether it's a dragon harboring a princess, a Super Bowl ring, overcoming a disease, earning a doctorate, rebuilding the '68 Stang, exceeding the sales goal...or beating back the Nazis, rebuilding after the earthquake, taking back the neighborhood from crack houses.
The problem with contemporary liberalism is that it is a cause without a crisis. Women are no longer being kept barefoot and pregnant; minorities are no longer being enslaved and lynched; the poor are no longer starving, naked in the cold, stuck in breadlines. The fewer "dragons" to conquer there are, the more effete one becomes, and the more effete one becomes, the reaction to perceived "dragons" exacerbates in order to reach the level of stress necessary to produce the sensation of competition.
Conservatism, however, is a cause with a host of crises, most of which are 'old news' around here: everything from the national debt to the gutting of the military to abortion to the destruction of the nuclear family to unconstitutional exercise of executive authority, among many others. The conservative's problem is not to find a crisis, but to try to choose among numerous crises which one to attempt to conquer. For example, do we concentrate on opposing abortion, knowing that in doing so our nation will go bankrupt, or concentrate on the national debt and government spending, knowing that in doing so another million unborn babies will never see the light of day--or neglect both, and concentrate on ridding the nation of undesirables (i.e., terrorists and foreign gangs)?
The paradox of the country's political movements is that conservatism, which indeed faces many crises, is nevertheless far less stressed and tends towards optimism, while progressivism, which has obtained practically all of its goals, is nevertheless far more stressed and tends towards perpetual pessimism.