Seriously, what's the deal with PMS? Why the hell do women have to suffer through that shit? I would like one reason, one reason, why PMS should exist in the first place because all it does is make women bitchy and cranky and miserable.
According to wikipedia, symptoms of PMS are:
More than 200 different symptoms have been associated with PMS, but the three most prominent symptoms are irritability, tension, and dysphoria (unhappiness).[1] Common emotional and non-specific symptoms include stress, anxiety, difficulty in falling asleep (insomnia), headache, fatigue, mood swings, increased emotional sensitivity
What it should really say is:
Step away from the monster, do not come anywhere near it or it can and will kill you.
or
Women should not make any plans. They should stay locked in their house and refrain from speaking to anyone.
That is taking to an extreme, although I think it's interesting that Orthodox Jews seem to be quite strict about this whole period thing. Apparently a woman needs to be pretty much separate from society for a total of approximately 14 days until it's over. I mean no touching anything, no sitting on anything, no handing something to someone, and of course, no touching someone else. Now that is extreme. Seriously people, it's not a disease, really it isn't, relax take it easy, you're not going to catch it you know.
I'm not a feminist myself, but I'd be very interested to know how feminists feel about that point in particular. Any feminists out there?
1 comment:
With a little bubble bath a massage and some sex those PMS symptoms seem to disappear! :)
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