Menstruation Is Pointless.

[Ash Wednesday]

Well, it IS.

If you're not having a baby that needs nutrients, it's completely POINTLESS except for making you bloated, crabby, crampy and just plain feeling yucky. So shut up with this "beauty of womenhood" garbage.

[Saint Therese]

Preach it sister.
I'm never going to have children. I wish I could have my uterus removed.

Edited November 1, 2008 by Saint Therese

[philothea]

Srsly.

[HisChildForever]

I absolutely agree. I get so furious at men when I have my period. They have [b]no[/b] idea the amount of pain we have to experience every single month. (It's such a distinct pain, too.) They don't experience pregnancy (and those pains - like morning sickness) or giving birth. [spoiler] And I've often heard that a woman's "first time" can be painful, whereas it's not painful at all for men. [/spoiler] I also get irritated when men say "Oh but we have to watch you suffer, that's worse." That's very touching to say, but it doesn't even tip the scale.

[missionseeker]

you talking to me?

[url="http://sccdga.blogspot.com/2008/01/painful-beauty-of-womanhood.html"]http://sccdga.blogspot.com/2008/01/painful...-womanhood.html[/url]

[missionseeker]

Though yes, I agree, it's stupid and painful and gross and i hate it and wish I could .. not be a woman somedays...

[Ash Wednesday]

If my husband or any man ever tells me when I'm in labor that it's worse for them by watching us suffer, I would probably kick them in the face.

I just want to gag when people try to sugar coat these kinds of things with insipid phrases like "the beauty of womanhood."

[missionseeker]

I don't think it's sugar coating it to call it that.

[Slappo]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1690435' date='Oct 31 2008, 09:14 PM']I just want to gag when people try to sugar coat these kinds of things with insipid phrases like "the beauty of womanhood."[/quote]

And yet we can claim "Felix culpa" and "The beauty of the cross" ???

It surely isn't enjoyable I'd assume, but who said beauty was always enjoyable?

[Ash Wednesday]

No, my ranting has nothing to do with what I presume to be yours or someone's blog entry -- I've never read that and at least you or whoever wrote it used the word "painful."

I talk about the people that really try to blow birds and sunshine up someone's butt about the whole thing with no grain of reality at all.

[quote name='missionseeker' post='1690418' date='Oct 31 2008, 11:07 PM']you talking to me?

[url="http://sccdga.blogspot.com/2008/01/painful-beauty-of-womanhood.html"]http://sccdga.blogspot.com/2008/01/painful...-womanhood.html[/url][/quote]

Edited November 1, 2008 by Ash Wednesday

[CatherineM]

I saw something about the fact that women have way too many periods now than we are supposed to. We hit puberty earlier than a 100 years ago, and we have fewer babies and don't breast feed as long. If we didn't hit puberty until 16, married within a year or two of that, and had a kid every other year or so for the next 20 years, we'd have very few actual periods.

[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='Slappo' post='1690451' date='Oct 31 2008, 11:24 PM']And yet we can claim "Felix culpa" and "The beauty of the cross" ???

It surely isn't enjoyable I'd assume, but who said beauty was always enjoyable?[/quote]

People, I'm not talking about serious religious correlations here. Now if any of you don't like what I have to say, let me be grumpy in peace. I never said this post wasn't lame.

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1690453' date='Oct 31 2008, 11:25 PM']I saw something about the fact that women have way too many periods now than we are supposed to. We hit puberty earlier than a 100 years ago, and we have fewer babies and don't breast feed as long. If we didn't hit puberty until 16, married within a year or two of that, and had a kid every other year or so for the next 20 years, we'd have very few actual periods.[/quote]

Very interesting!

[Slappo]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1690453' date='Oct 31 2008, 09:25 PM']I saw something about the fact that women have way too many periods now than we are supposed to. We hit puberty earlier than a 100 years ago, and we have fewer babies and don't breast feed as long. If we didn't hit puberty until 16, married within a year or two of that, and had a kid every other year or so for the next 20 years, we'd have very few actual periods.[/quote]

Make more babies!

I almost feel like I have no place in this thread being a boy and all

[missionseeker]

lol... as long as you're just talking about that other stuff...

yeah, they're pretty pointless. especially the ones that come two or three weeks apart

[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='Slappo' post='1690460' date='Oct 31 2008, 11:32 PM']Make more babies!

I almost feel like I have no place in this thread being a boy and all [/quote]

I just read your post on open mic about your question about women's "visitors" and busted up laughing. In all seriousness I had NOT read that before I posted this.