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on 08/17/10 at 05:35 PM

I completely agree. Thats one thing that makes you remind of being a woman and let you be pampered by your male counterpart. Its a great suggestion to respect your biological make up and celebrate it!

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on 12/12/07 at 04:12 PM

the penis is in sync with the smell and the chemistry of the woman he lives with every day of the year in and year out. you need to know the man whose penis you see every day as a normal thing in your life.

the pain of the man is not in a cycle but when he has not fulfilled his body's need. he can only do that when he can sense in the woman's cycle that she is receptive. many men have lost touch with the primal instincts and the sense of smell and the intimacy of being with women. we need to be reattached and reintouched to our natural selves.

men need to see and smell and touch a naked woman every day. women need to sense and touch and smell a naked man every day. that is the only way the world goes around.

in modern world, men don't know about periods any more. it is all covered up. alll they know is tv commercials for tampons, which embarrass them. they wonder why the republicans they voted for haven't banned them. women need to lighten up on the deodorizers and realize that nowadays men are women too and they have to acknowledge what men just sense from the oddness in the bathroom now and then.

if there were tv commercials for products to help clean semen off sheets that would be very interesting.

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if a woman is having her period, she should not keep it a secret, but have a naked man change her tampons for her. and whatever she does with his penis is entierly her affair.

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Anonymous

on 09/17/07 at 02:49 AM

"Sugar and spice, and everything nice". Well, that depends on one's definition of "nice".

I realize, of course, that the aforementioned verse is in the realm of fairy tale. It is as inaccurate

with respect to the female of the species as it is offensive to the male of the species (I refer to the

verse that usually accompanies the above that, supposedly, describes the male), and proffers

conscious and subconscious attitudes towards both sexes at an early age.

Being male, and fortunately, not having to deal with menstruation (at least not my own) should

I choose not to, I am fully aware that I have nothing to say regarding menstruation from a female

point of view, i.e., nothing experiential as concerns the process itself. I would also point out that,

if you are a woman reading this, you do not have any experience whatsoever as a man, or in

seeing things from that perspective. Whether you feel that the sexes are equal, or that women

are somehow "better" than men, is your business. In my opinion, the sexes are different. But

please, don't consider your being female as an "accomplishment": the fact that you are

is certainly nothing that you "did".

How women deal with menstruation - either by extolling the virtues of the process, as they

perceive it, and then connecting the process to the tides, the moon, sexual pleasure, numerology,

life, birth, death etc., or by hating or feeling that the process is a nuisance - is up to them.

"Sugar, spice, blood, piss, shit, yeast, bacteria, entitlement, moodiness, emotional unavailability,

fear, pride, teasing, love, joy, reverence, disease, joy in books, joy in cooking and on and on.....

"carpe diem".....all of these might be characteristics of either a man or a woman (including

snakes and snails and puppy dog tails - at least, after a fashion)

Menstruation, however, is a strictly female biological process. My experience? A woman I dated

for several years felt that her period was her "private time". That was her choice. When we had

scheduled a weekend away from the kids in another city, when she arrived (I was anticipating a

weekend that hopefully included making love; o.k., crucify me...there'll be plently of blood for all!),

she informed me that she was having her period. I was initially angry that she hadn't told me earlier,

were that possible.

She said: "I'm not broken".

I said "Can we make love".

She said: "No".

I said: "Then you're broken to that degree".

Some women offer the tautological argument that a "mature man" is one who is not, in any

way, ever revulsed or even slighly repulsed by menstruation, bloody tampons, pads, bloody

panties soaking in the sink, etc. The "immature man", then, is a male who does find the

menstrual process or the things associated with it, at times, less than attractive, delightful

and appealing. Being mature, to me, means admitting that the process exists; however - as

many women also feel about menstruation - I don't have to like it....and I don't.

While I realize menstruation's biological imiportance, the part that it plays (again, anecdotally) in

hormonal fluctuations and mood changes (for better or worse; pardon the phrase), the simple fact

is that women's vaginas are either bleeding or not bleeding. Men's penises are hard, or soft.

Both sexes have bodies, with their individual attributes.

For a woman to say to a man: "Well, you don't really know what menstruation is like....if men had to

go through it, they wouldn't be able to [fill in the blank]....." is simply a ludicrous statement. It

describes a physical act that is impossible for a male and then castigates the male for not being

female. The "logic" is simply ridiculous. If a man were a women, "he" would be just that - a woman,

with all the more-or-less "womanly" emotional attributes and physical processes inherent in

being female. And vice-versa. And for any woman reading this, should you doubt this fact,

somewhere out there in the world of video is an 80 minute documentary of 4 different women

directed by Camille Paglia, who is also the interviewer.

In this documentary, there is a woman who feels that she is actually a man, but was born with

a woman's body, and so begins to undergo the hormonal therapy and long theraputic process

that people involved in the process of sex/gender identity change sometimes go through.

After a few months of testosterone injections, the woman in the film says: "I never knew why

men went to strip bars, or why there were triple-X arcades. I considered myself to be quite a

sexually intense woman - I was frequenty horny - but THIS!! My God, I feel like I can jump over

buildings. NOW I KNOW WHY MEN ARE THE WAY THAT SOME OF THEM ARE!". Imagine that....

So, please, none of this nonsense of: "Well, if you were a woman.....". Well, if I were a woman,

I would handle things the way that a woman does (not that there isn't a tremendous spectrum

and variety there, as far as that goes). And, if you were a man, you would handle things the

way that a man does - again, with all the variations that that sex and humans have.......... believe

it!

Have as much pride as you want in your bleeding vagina; that's great. I think that it would

be an inconvenience at best, and a hated biological curse at worst..

As far as I personally am concerned, I find the menstrual process disgusting, if needed for

procreation (if for nothing else).

Vaginas are "self - cleaning", eh? Well, I wouldn't want to wipe my counters with one, that's

for certain, but then, that's not what they are for. And yes, while "getting your brains fucked out",

the smell of the vagina is an aprodesiac. However, I wouldn't like my house smelling like one -

bleeding or not.

So, wear your red shirts, have your boyfriends make you special Marinara (that's suppposed

to be capitalized, by the way) sauces [what kind of sauces do you make when your vagina isn't

dripping blood?], make red Kool - Aid, dip your freshly-removed bloody tampons in your

water glass at the restaurant and drink up. Oh, and keep creating LIFE, DAMNIT! There

certainly aren't enough people on earth at this point, and it seems as if becoming pregnant,

at least in this town, is rather popular. Now there's a lovely vision - childbirth! Right up there

with "Alien", though perhaps only slighly less disgusting. Or, if you absolutely don't want to

risk becoming pregnant, don't have sex! It IS possible.

Now I'm certain that there is probably a woman or two out there who haven't liked what I've

written. And, there may be a few who agree with me (Stephanie Miller [of The Stephanie Miller

Show] might be one. From a recent show, she mentioned friends who had people over for dinner

and, while eating, watched the video taken of the recent birth of their child! "Hey, pass the Lasagna!

.....My God!" was one of the quotes from the show).

You might be saying: Well if you were a woman............!

Well, thankfully, I'm not.

And if you were a man, you might very well feel as I do. Immature? Maybe, maybe not.

Truthful? Yes.

Rebecca

on 10/01/06 at 08:53 AM

So, if TV is an excellent reflection of what mainstream society wants to see - and this ad was even specifically targeted to appeal to WOMEN, then why all the fuss over it here? Isn't this exactly what women want to see, by definition from it being on TV?

Or, are you saying that TV in fact DOES NOT represent what mainstream (women) want to see - thereby blowing your own theory out of the water?

And, you sure do like commenting on these self-indulgent blogs, nonetheless, eh? :D

Rebecca

Shirey

on 09/30/06 at 02:18 PM

^^ Your comments on this piece and others are overwhelmingly moronic, and yet somehow pompous. Bravo!

Television and other forms of mass media are interesting topics of discussion regardless of whether or not you actually consume them. Like it or not, they are excellent reflections of what mainstream society wants to see, testing the strength of people's values, and noting new trends. Gender discrepancies are definitely worth commenting on, and it is easy to point to television as evidence for this, because it reaches such a vast audience. Blogs, on the other hand, are self-indulgent pieces of shit written by people who are most likely too dense to get their writing actually published.

Rebecca

on 09/28/06 at 01:53 PM

Just STOP watching TV. It is hardly even worth commenting on anymore...you could write a blog on every minute of stupidity they air on there.

Exercise your free choice and mind and press OFF.

Rebecca

shirey

on 09/05/06 at 01:41 PM

you fucking rock! you're definitely one of my favorite writers. i love having sex on my period, but i think that the red parties might be a little extreme for me, but at least it compensates for all the social stigmas that people give to our mighty red tides!

nancy
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on 08/03/06 at 06:24 AM

on a side note.. there is something else very wrong with that ad.. by making a list like that about what 'women can be' just defeats the purpose because it makes a big deal out of the idea that they're doing it.
saying 'i'm a woman and i can be this and that..' shows a sense of self-consciousness that we shouldn't have to feel at all.
just do it and shut the fuck up about it.

it's not like you'd never see an ad saying a man can be a genius, father, a CEO, effeminate, playboy...'

Anonymous

on 06/12/06 at 10:09 PM

Period pieces are sexy.

Natasha VC
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on 05/14/06 at 01:53 PM

You're spot on 36. (forgive the pun)

Ruby

on 05/14/06 at 12:38 PM

No, you're not wrong. I think her point was that we should not stigmatize part of what makes women women, which I'm all for. I know what you mean: when Aunt Flo comes to visit, my breasts ache and I feel like I've been punched in the stomach. But we shouldn't feel afraid to talk about it, or feel ashamed when it happens.

Good article.
Thought you'd enjoy this:
http://www.preciousparts.net/

Anonymous

on 05/14/06 at 11:43 AM

Am I wrong to hate the sight of blood? Am I wrong to not like when my cunt smells like fish? My breasts, one of my most feminine attributes ache, I'm fatigued, in pain, surrounded by gross smells, and inevitably snap at my boyfriend. Bottom line: I hate my period, and it's quite understandable for him to be less than fond of it too. I chug that Midol, plug myself up with tampax, and try my best to pretend it's not happening. But, I don't feel like that makes me less of a woman, less of a feminist, or anything of that nature. Am I wrong?

Miss Pensativa
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on 05/04/06 at 10:01 PM

a good reason to have sex: it makes cramping because of your period go away.

Natasha VC
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on 04/26/06 at 11:52 PM

"Your bitches don't even bleed yet" -Telly

Jack Monroe
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on 04/26/06 at 11:34 PM

"My bitches got mad flavor"
-Casper

Natasha VC
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on 03/26/06 at 10:10 PM

Yes. My words often have that affect. They have banned me from newsletters at work for the same reason.

Anonymous

on 03/24/06 at 10:51 PM

This article made me cum.

Anonymous

on 03/24/06 at 12:09 PM

ewww. great article but i gagged a bunch of times reading this. I am just not ready to get close to the whole period thing. I think alot of guys feel the same way. But then again, it grosses me out when i go down on a chick too.

renita

on 03/12/06 at 08:06 PM

The drug that makes you not have a period was actually based on some research which showed that maybe we weren't meant to have a period once a month at all. In the old days, women began having children after they hit puberty, and breastfed until the kid was about 2 or so, which effectively stopped their period from coming, and then they had another kid. So they just kept having children until they hit menopause, sometimes only having 4 or 5 periods in an entire lifetime.
According to this research, there actually isn't even really a point to having periods at all--they just include the 4 periods a year because it does seem a little weird messing with the menstrual system, so they figure that they should throw in a few just for good measure.

Angela Joy Natividad

on 03/12/06 at 06:27 PM

Wow, I hella dig the imagery about crazy territorial blood-marked period sex.

Interestingly, I too reluctantly think Hugh Grant is hot.