The thought occurs to me, on the subject of "balance." By analogy, we are taught when we are very young that we must control urination. We don't just empty our bladders automatically, the instant we feel the urge. It isn't socially acceptable. We wait for the appropriate time and place. Barring disease or injury, the inability to control it usually indicates some weakness or incompetence. The person is still a small child, is elderly and infirm, is drunk, or is perhaps mentally challenged in some way. And then those who cannot control it are expected to manage the situation, by using protection, catheters, or some other method of making sure there aren't random puddles being left everywhere.

In the same way, we are taught to control our tear ducts. We don't just start it up whenever the urge hits. We wait for the appropriate time and place, and then we control how we release it. Generally, bawling and open-mouth wailing is the domain of babies and small children. Older children and adults have learned to be less demonstrative. There may be tears and some sobbing, but usually the vocal cords are far less involved. Even my overemotional deceased husband was able to control that much.

But getting back to the analogy, if boys were taught that only girls may urinate, and that boys never do, how unhealthy would that be? We teach them to control it, but we don't teach them to hold it back forever, do we?