The 50%
There’s around a 50% chance that you’re a woman if you’re reading this (because men want to read about women just as much as women want to read about men). Man or woman, the case in point is irrelevant: I have something to say, and it’s as true as the fact that you will loose weight after undergoing gastric balloon surgery. Here it is: I’m sick of women making out that while they are having a period, they are as rational, logical and reasonable as otherwise. There! I’m not suggesting that they are completely unreasonable while they are having a period either. What I am saying is that women can loose their patience / fly in to a rage / be unreasonable while having one. That’s just life. So sorry if you’re a woman, but that’s just the way it is.
The point is this: it’s gotten to the point that men aren’t allowed to talk about PMS – it’s that much of a taboo. Worse, there is a faction of females who think that men use the PMS thing as an insult; some of them then go on to say that they are unaffected when they have a period. That this makes no difference to the way they live their life. Well, I’m sorry, but periods do affect women, and they do affect hormones. That’s just the way it is. By saying that they are not affected they are saying, in a way, that they are superhuman. Which is a ridiculous, ludicrous, and downright absurd thing to say. I’m not trying to wage a war here, this just needs to be said.
And it isn’t just me who thinks this. To research this piece I asked a number of women how PMS affected them, and their answers back my writing up. So, next time you start shouting about saying that men are insulting women and that they don’t know what they are talking about, know this: we don’t know, we’re not women. But if you’d like to tell us we’d be happy to listen.