thank GOD for my boyfriend's patience and understanding. i can talk to him about nay aspect of my period/menstrual cycle and he pats my back and makes me tea.
that being said, i hardly get the same response from most other people. only in college did i feel comfortable not hiding a tampon in my pocket to go to the bathroom from class. even then, i definitely got looks...
i thnk a lot of this bizarre mentality comes from the (equally bizarre) idea that women should be dainty... like we should all have periods that are dainty and controlled by a single, rose smelling slim fit tampon. that being said, you are no less or more of a woman if the above is true for you. it's just not true for all of us.
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Date: 2010-03-05 05:55 pm (UTC)that being said, i hardly get the same response from most other people. only in college did i feel comfortable not hiding a tampon in my pocket to go to the bathroom from class. even then, i definitely got looks...
i thnk a lot of this bizarre mentality comes from the (equally bizarre) idea that women should be dainty... like we should all have periods that are dainty and controlled by a single, rose smelling slim fit tampon. that being said, you are no less or more of a woman if the above is true for you. it's just not true for all of us.
sigh.