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rebloggable, as requested 🙂 

this is the most accurate description of how awful periods are that i have ever read.  *slow applauds*

Seriously, people need to just shut the fuck up about periods not being that bad. I don’t get where people come off downplaying it and not believing what they’re told. You’re a crappy person if you say that kind of shit. 

When a friend calls me to tell me she needs help because she’s at work and she is bleeding into her shoes, it’s that bad. Seriously. She poured blood out of her shoes. Then told me she wears a skirt because she can always wash her legs off in the shop bathroom but pants don’t come clean that easily. 

Is being punched in the nose a big deal? If you forget the answer to that, go ask someone with a uterus to help you remember. Because it’s less painful and bloody than what a lot of people experience when they menstruate.  

Personally, I get enviably easy-going periods that many women would kill me and eat my heart for if they thought it would transfer.  However, I know women who are basically bed-bound for three days because the cramps are so debilitating they can’t even get up to go to work.  How do they hold down a job, you ask?  WITH A GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT.  I also know of women whose PMS actually becomes a medical problem, as their hormone fluctuations can be so bad they get debilitating migraines, or suicidal depression, or crippling nausea.

If you can’t imagine how somebody could possibly actually cope with that, then it’s probably because you’re a privileged wimp who has never been forced to confront how much pain and hardship some people live with when they have no other choice.

GOOD NEWS though, gentlemen, you can in fact share much of the experience of an average menstrual period for yourself!  Simply go out, get yourself addicted to caffeine, and then quit cold-turkey.  The headaches, backaches, lethargy, gut-cramping and diarrhea you’re likely to experience for the next five to ten days are so similar that when I happened to go for four days without drinking tea at That Time Of The Month, I didn’t even realize I was having caffeine withdrawal; I just wondered why my period was lasting longer than usual.

And then consider the fact that women do it all over again EVERY MONTH.