#period problems

[luminarai]

hey, hi, I was just on the former bird app and came across this info from a brand new study and now I cannot stop screaming internally??? what the actual fuckkkk

theres' an article from the guardian here and here is the actual study:

[shadowseductress]

Girls who endure period pain without painkillers should be feared by everyone.

[nicxxx5]

y'all why did evolution decide bleeding for a week straight was favorable for survival?

why have periods not been lost been lost to evolution???

why were periods introduced by evolution?!?!?!

natural selection what the fuck

[twomanyfandomshelp]

Has this been done before?

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[shinydreamtacoprune-blog]

𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 🎀

𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆, 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒚 (𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚)

𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔, 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒚𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅

[24naa-xo]

[dez-ku]

Period cramps + stomach cramps has been given to MK 😈

[annoying--moth]

When the PMS hits and suddenly you hate everything and everyone

[adsinclairofficial]

Me this morning: Going to be productive today, friends! Going to go outside, touch some grass, do some things! Feeling good!

My uterus: Oh, I'm so sorry, did you have plans today? Whoopsies! My bad, sis! Is there any way you could fit some blood, severe pain, vomiting, and uncontrollable sobbing into your schedule?

[reasonsforhope]

"Spanish lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to a law granting paid medical leave to women suffering severe period pain, becoming the first European country to advance such legislation.

The law, which passed by 185 votes in favour to 154 against, is aimed at breaking a taboo on the subject, the government has said.

Menstrual leave is currently offered only in a small number of countries across the globe, among them Japan, Indonesia and Zambia.

"It is a historic day for feminist progress," Equality Minister Irene Montero tweeted ahead of the vote.

The legislation entitles workers experiencing period pain to as much time off as they need, with the state social security system -- not employers -- picking up the tab for the sick leave.

As with paid leave for other health reasons, a doctor must approve the temporary medical incapacity.

The length of sick leave that doctors will be able to grant to women suffering from painful periods has not been specified in the law.

About a third of women who menstruate suffer from severe pain, according to the Spanish Gynaecology and Obstetrics Society...

"Menstrual leave" is one of the key measures in the broader legislation, which also provides for increased access to abortion in public hospitals.

Less than 15 percent of abortions performed in the country take place in such institutions, mainly because of conscientious objections by doctors.

The new law also allows minors to have abortions without parental permission at 16 and 17 years of age, reversing a requirement introduced by a previous conservative government in 2015.

Spain, a European leader in women's rights, decriminalised abortion in 1985, and in 2010, it passed a law that allows women to opt freely for abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy in most cases."

-via Hindustan Times, 2/17/23

Note: Obviously there are plenty of trans men and nonbinary, etc. people who have periods, and many women—whether cis, trans, and/or intersex—who don't. In this case, though, I'm choosing to leave the article's text unmodified to more accurately convey the technicalities of and rhetoric/political context around these laws.

[unfashionably-late-comics]

I feel early days Wonder Woman couldn't get a job because she only had time to prevent world ending crises because NOBODY was helping her out

Ok maybe other heroes weren't born yet but still

[shinydreamtacoprune-blog]

screaming, crying, throwing up

help

[24naa-xo]

[i-promise-i-am-not-on-drugs]

Periods fucking sucks.

What the heck do you mean I have to wake up about ten times every nights for 6/7 days a month until I'm in my 40s??? Because otherwise I'll have to change my blood-soaked sheets in the morning???? Because otherwise I will wake up in a literal puddle of blood?????? Fuck that man, I never asked for that disgusting and useless uterus. I would gladly give it for free to anyone who wants one. Take it, go on. Wish you luck with what comes next.

[annoying--moth]

Being on my period sucks I just felt 5 different emotions... Simultaneously