Let’s continue with topics I am biologically unqualified to talk about.
Here’s someone explaining how menstruation feels like. Women will find nothing new in it (feel free to be curious though), but I encourage guys to read it. I came back with some new perspective and understanding.
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For what it’s worth, I recommend empathizing with women without mentioning you read a great article on the internet about women having periods.
Do: If you know she’s menstruating, be as accommodating as you can.
Don’t: “You seem to be in pain. Is the blood clot hurting your vagina?”
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For the number of millennia we two sexes have spent with each other, we ought to have a better understanding of each other. Next in the series: What guys think when they’re surfing porn. (I suppose the reason no guy has written it yet is because the subject matter is distracting. Ahem.)
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February 4, 2013 at 9:37 pm
desi
btw the range of the topics you write on is pretty wide and awesome…travel, adventure, astronomy, tech, politics, menstruation, cannibalism and what not.
February 5, 2013 at 1:23 am
Deepak
Lately, I only have thoughts about such random topics that I want to write about.
February 5, 2013 at 3:13 pm
desi
Recently you have stopped writing on travel in detail, please do not stop writing your travel experience..at least major ones, if not all…I’m sure majority readers of this blogs wants the same.
February 5, 2013 at 12:53 am
Aquatic Static
Ummm….that was super intense. (Incidentally, every woman has a different period – different levels of pain, duration, symptoms etc. Not everyone suffers the same way or with the same intensity.)
This lady’s period is downright scary (she should seriously try tracking her period so she’s not caught off guard OR carry a tampon with her at all times).
Pain pills & tampons – for those of us who have access – FTW.
(Looked at in another light: My grandmom’s generation used to be banished away for the duration of their period. Isolated in a small room. She had 4 children so she enjoyed the break and always spoke fondly of that time of the month
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February 5, 2013 at 1:21 am
Deepak
That was intense but most girls I know have had a few intense ones. Some regularly have nasty periods. YMMV.
She is now a he, and he’s glad he doesn’t have to carry tampons. But yeah, even I was waiting for tampons to appear in that post–naturally explaining how horrible it is to insert it up one’s vajayjay.
About grandmoms, I agree that they got rest but isn’t it better to have rest as well as someone to understand and comfort you, as opposed to being outcast for that period (heh).
February 5, 2013 at 12:54 am
Aquatic Static
Dang. I’m a period apologist…
February 5, 2013 at 1:22 am
Deepak
Yes you are. And that makes you part of the problem. How and which problem, I haven’t figured out yet.
February 5, 2013 at 11:01 am
Xeb
Woah. That was graphic, And while it was correct for the most part, the author left out PMS – which is essentially when all of this is true, except the blood part – which comes later
February 5, 2013 at 12:08 pm
Deepak
That’s because he was asked to explain a period, not a preriod. (Why isn’t PMS called preriod yet?!)
February 6, 2013 at 7:54 pm
Aquatic Static
(because it’s like the rural juror)