The truth is among us

I got this from a Facebook group I joined...and the news should be spread.




This is for all women who DETEST their monthly menstrual cycle! Is it any surprise that one of the first effects of sin in the world was menstruation? Really, I don't see why guys don't have to have periods too, because they don't "toil in the ground" anymore... they just play video games and football. Where's the justice?!! A guy can work outisde in the dirt for a day, get a tan, grow some vegetables, then take a shower and relax! But menstruation (not to mention child birth)?!

-Happens once a month for approximately a week NO MATTER WHAT! Come rain or shine, finals, dates, dances, major holidays or shopping trips, the menstrual cylcle stops for no woman.

-Menstruation involves bleeding from the vagina. Typing that just makes me feel gross.

-The smell. Horrific at best... like warm, oozing death.

-Cramps. An irritating inconvenience for some, for others it involves being woken up at 4 AM by a stabbing pain in the abdomen that makes you writhe in agony for four hours until you puke five times, curse the day you were born, drench whatever your wearing in sweat, eventually fall asleep exhausted, then wake up feeling like Maryanne in "Sense and Sensibility" when the fever breaks.

-Tampons: we're thankful for what they accomplish, but wouldn't you just rather not in the long run? I have a feeling that tampons will be proven (by experts) to cause cancer of the vagina within our lifetime.

-Pads: again, thankful. But gross

-The dispensers in bathroom stalls. Always overflowing and gross, because who wants to clean that out? (A note: always wrap ladies, always wrap. It's just common courtesy)

-The expense of pads, tampons, pain relief of all types, heating pads, chocolate etc.

-That in order to ease the pain and uncertainty of the menstrual cycle via birth control we have to undergo an exam that is, for lack of a better word, medieval and barbaric.

-When the blood gets on your pants/skirt. It's happened to all of us, and really, there is nothing more humilliating in this life.

-The mood swings. Unwarranted crying and yelling, depression, extreme irritation. No I'm not in a bad mood, I just have my FREAKING PERIOD... OKAY??!!!

-The weight gain. Let's just add insult to injury.

-Let's not forget the break out. As if one couldn't feel more unattractive, having one's face explode the week prior to, during or after this heinous experience really adds.

-The biorhythms developed at summer camp, or other facilities of prolonged communal living, which cause all female occupants to menstruate AT THE SAME TIME. Incidentally, this phenomena cannot be experienced until the women have lived together long enough that they are sick of each other's company anyway.

-The male reaction. Support and understading rather than extreme disgust. I mean, no one wants all the grisly details, but for heaven's sake, if they're not going to get their butts outside and toil in the earth, they had better at least appreciate the burden we're bearing.

-The Old Testament reaction. Far be it for me to criticize the Lord or the people of Israel, but Red Tents? Like, a month of ritual cleansing?

-The fact that Eve ate the apple. Dangit mom.