My Period and Me (1279 hits)
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Submitted by Erin K <baffledpoet.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2004-03-06 16:36:48 EST
There was a time when the very mention of "menstruation" sent a shudder up my young spine. I would console myself: "Oh, boy, I sure am glad that's not gonna be for a few more years. I think I'll go swimming now! Bwahaha - no tampons!"
I do not remember when I first learned that girls hemorrhaged from their vaginas once a month, only an old joke. "Man, I don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and don't die." And I recall reading "Dear God, It's Me, Margaret," and scoffing. No girl in her right fucking mind wants a period. If it's so damned important to you to bleed out your ass, I mentally bellowed at poor, asinine Margaret, why don't you just stab yourself in the vagina? Stupid cunt. (Seriously, I was a messed up kid. My brother was several years older, and definitely not a good influence.)
Then, one winter day, my best friend - two years older than I - got her period. I spent weeks fearing that my mother would try to have The Talk with me. Fortunately, this is the only conversation we've *ever* had on the subject: My Mother: "Erin, do you understand what happened to Jennifer?"
Me: "Yes,mother." Nothing more was said about Jennifer's period; she was lucky, and never got cramps, so there was no reason for her to bitch about it to me, who was becoming too young to share in her "cool," pre-teen life at middle school anyhow. Then, summer struck: we were going to go swimming, but, alas! "Aunt Flo was visiting" (as they told us to say whenever we got asked by boys), and Jennifer had to wear a Tampon. That experience must have scarred her for life, because I know it fucked me up. It took her lying on our bathroom floor, knees up and legs spread (like the whore she would turn out to be), and both of our mothers trying vainly to insert the small cylindrical tube into her. Jennifer wailed and cried and kicked. I was to hold her legs. Yeah, right. I ran out of the room, scared to death. I was only ten, but I knew that my time would come.
And come it did. Seventh grade - started about half way through the day (I think), but I didn't know until two hours after school had finished, and I was preparing to go home (having stayed after for some geeky thing). Upon noticing my blood-soaked jeans, I sobbed, as twelve year old girls generally do, and have hated my period since. Where most of my friends went through a time when their periods were tentative (perhaps they'd get one that month, perhaps they wouldn't), I have yet to skip a period. It is only now that I am almost 18 years old and fucking around that I have come to appreciate my menstrual cycle. Now, bleeding out my vagina doesn't mean being bitchy and mildly uncomfortable (I, too, am lucking enough not to cramp); rather, it means that the little eggs inside me aren't being fertilized. It means that I will not have to throw myself into walls to rid myself of a little bugger growing in my uterus. When I got a period after the first time of having sex, I seriously celebrated. A friend of mine threw me a "Don't Have to Abort the Damn Thing"** party, even. (We're all very paranoid about pregnancy.) So, to my uterus, fallopian tubes, eggs, etc., I say, "Thank you. I love you. I will never take you for granted again."
**Sorry if you don't approve of abortion, don't take offense, just joking around. Please don't be anal about it; this is just a poorly written blurb about how I feel about my period now as opposed to a few years ago. Gracias.
I tried to find a pic of some menstrual art (you know, pictures drawn with blood from your period), but google wasn't cooperating today.
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Submitted by BonesForBucks (user info) at 2004-03-09 19:44:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Parts of this post weren't very great. Especially where you hate on your own post. But I am a guy, and like the insider's perpsective on periods. Plus the whole google-wasn't-helping-you-find-menstrual-art line was great. OK post, could be a lot better.
Submitted by Quartermain (user info) at 2004-03-09 19:30:05 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
**I tried to find a pic of some menstrual art (you know, pictures drawn with blood from your period), but google wasn't cooperating today.**
Thank God.
I experience a lot of periods too, but mine aren't so bad. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't know where to end a sentence.
Submitted by bargled (user info) at 2004-03-09 19:17:55 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
from aaron to erin:
don't ever post anything like this again.
Submitted by Cassiopeia (user info) at 2004-03-09 18:50:16 EST (#)
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I **HATE** the name Annabel. That's my boyfriend's exwife's name!!!! DIE ANNABEL!! DIEEEE!!!!
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-03-09 18:35:01 EST (#)
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+1 for mentioning "menstrual art"
-1 for not finding any.
-2 for a shitty post.
Submitted by Mr._Rude (user info) at 2004-03-08 17:00:18 EST (#)
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I hope you bleed to death you dirty fucking whore. You're disgusting and I hope you burn in hell for eternity for your filth.
Submitted by Lisa (user info) at 2004-03-06 22:29:38 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Worst post ever. Period.
Submitted by hgdhgh at 2004-03-06 19:52:06 EST (#)
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nobody wants to hear about your cunt
Submitted by WookieSuave (user info) at 2004-03-06 18:35:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Made me laugh..... Made my girlfriend laugh......
I use tampons for nosebleeds.......(I recommend a brand without an applicator, hurts like a mother fucker.)
Submitted by GrizzlyHunter62 (user info) at 2004-03-06 18:23:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
You needed four people to get a tampon in her pussy? Wow. The image i get is amazingly clear, and is making me cringe.
Submitted by Lyric (user info) at 2004-03-06 17:49:41 EST (#)
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This was..... terrible.
Submitted by ThatOneGirl (user info) at 2004-03-06 17:49:25 EST (#)
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I damn the days when I actually wanted to have a period.
Submitted by shadowdragon (user info) at 2004-03-06 17:40:56 EST (#)
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i'll be damned if anyone finds a *good* point to this
Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2004-03-06 17:35:17 EST (#)
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http://www.ebaumsworld.com/periods101.html
Submitted by Dazd1 (user info) at 2004-03-06 17:34:40 EST (#)
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Having 2 daughters and a wife myself. God if I never had to hear about this again it would be too soon.
Submitted by MistressSarah (user info) at 2004-03-06 17:10:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Menstrual art...HAHA!
Submitted by hcp28 (user info) at 2004-03-06 17:09:53 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Here is an idea... USE A CONDOM!
Submitted by AnnabelLee (user info) at 2004-03-06 17:00:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Spike, Nah, not shock value, just boredom. I know that my writings aren't exactly up to the same calibur as many others' here, but I felt bad for never contributing, but reviewing.
Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2004-03-06 16:55:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Now there are mental images of two mid-late 30's women tying down a 13 year old girl and... well... you get the picture.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2004-03-06 16:55:10 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
i'm guessing if you would've had more of a talk with your mother, maybe you would've gotten to the part where she says "oh, and this isn't something we talk about with COMPLETE STRANGERS!" now go fuck yourself and enjoy your baby. you've already been destined to fuck that one up
Submitted by SpikeGoddess (user info) at 2004-03-06 16:45:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
+1 for effort, but I guess I just don't think this is going anywhere. I mean, was this just written for shock value? I think maybe it was. There's no overall point here.
SpikeGoddess
Submitted by Beer_bong (user info) at 2004-03-06 16:45:31 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Read the title.