Double standard. Single fail.

A woman has a lot of sex and she’s a whore. A man has a lot of sex and he’s a stud.

A woman wears provocative clothes, she’s asking for it. A man goes shirtless and it’s acceptable.

A woman has big breasts, she must be dumb. A man is well endowed and he’s virile.

A woman with a strong personality is a bitch. A man with the same personality trait is a man.

Women, 85% of them in fact, suffer from PMS monthly, and yet we continue to hear the stupidest comments, the majority made by people that don’t experience traditional periods. Politely shut the hell up please.

Every month my uterus feels as if it’s trying to punch it’s way out of my body. Every freaking 28 days. It doesn’t get easier. It doesn’t get better. And being told, “you deal with it every month so why can’t you just suck it up” doesn’t do a damned thing to help.

“You must be PMS-ing” is my fave. This is one is tricky, because every woman with PMS knows that it does do a number on our ability to behave 100% logically. But women are also really tired of having our judgment second-guessed in our personal and professional lives because of our hormones. We’re a little emotionally out of whack. So, no, this isn’t “my period talking.” So even if this does occasionally happen to be true, it’s also a sure-fire way to make it a lot worse by blaming everything on our hormones or pointing out, that, yes, we are feeling a little testy. If men are testy, is it manstrating?! Can we comment on that during a board meeting?!

Every woman who goes through PMS deserves to be treated, if not like an actual queen, then at least with a modicum of respect. We should certainly not be made to feel embarrassed because our body is working through the mechanism that creates life. When women ask to be cut a little slack because we’re PMSing, it’s not because we’re whiny babies — we’re just going through some major stuff! I wish more non-PMSers (of all genders) would ask what the experience feels like, so they’d have some sense of what a painful, exhausting, expensive ordeal it is. 

I wish men had the pleasure of womanhood, menopause (how ironic, men…opause) and monthly periods. Then they could experience the joy of carrying a child and pushing a watermelon through a key hole or having your organs placed on a side tray while they remove this amazing human life. If they will never have the opportunity to participate in these things, they could at least have the courtesy to be quiet.