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Why do we take it for granted that women’s bodily processes just normally hurt? Is that what we would assume about men if every time they came, their balls ached unbearably for 3 or so days? If men had the prob, there’d be millions of dollars thrown at it, pain pills flying through the air, and nurses hired round the clock for their care. No stone would be left unturned in the search for the cause of this boner-decimating debilitation!
But with women, everyone just says “oh pain during periods and birth are normal (and fibromyalgia isn’t real!) therefore that’s just the way women are- with women pain doesn’t mean ‘something is wrong’ like it does with real people. It means ‘everything is fine!’ “
Pain isn’t just something women should take on the chin. Pain for us means the same thing as it means for a male, that SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE.
So why do women hurt?
1. Patriarchy means patrilinealism, which means that males have the upperhand in picking mates. Males select for things in women that make subsequent generations more childlike instead of woman-like. This starts to become a problem for obvious reasons. We’re going on about 6,000 years of it, too.
2. Pollution by men’s industrial factories, radiation from men’s nuclear plants, EMF (coming off smart meters and those fuckign BP wind turbines that do almost nothing), poisoning with synthetic hormones like the pill and fertility drugs, GMOs and processed shit food that can’t hardly be gotten away from.
3. The psychological effect of being told by oppressors that a certain part of your body is a smelly dirty secret is that your brain will slowly stop giving that area quite so much maintenance/attention. When you feel like your menstrual muscles are atrophied, that’s because they are. :( Thought is powerful.
So there are the reasons that natural body processes of women hurt. Pain should never be considered a part of life. Being in pain is not a good evolutionary strategy. Of course, this will be a reason for evo psyche to say that women’s pain indicates that she needs male help at that time of month. Ah-ah-ah, now! Men’s choices in the patriarchy *created* women’s pain.
Reserve your seats in advance.
Which time zone? I’d like to watch the slaughter.
As a woman, I am utterly embarrassed for you. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG with being in pain while on a period. This pain is...
My article tonight at 8:30 will be about this insanity.
Well actually the real reason menstration hurts is not because of men or the patriarchy or because your opressed. Its...
I still can’t tell if this is a really good troll or if they really don’t know how menstruation works
at least OP is doing her part to make tumblr a less serious place. We need more laughs on this website.
oh dear lord. such people do exist.
I needed the laugh today
The only thing I wanted to say is: I don’t get cramps regularly. I only get them when I am around someone, for an...
but at least for me, I am in pain until I cum…so…
I’m laughing so hard at #1 & 3 wtf?????Lmao she is delusional.
*I don’t know why I’m giving this the time of day but I have absolutely nothing to do right now* First you mention that...
Damn.
still a nugget of pure feminist gold never forget