no boys allowed in the room!!!!

I was thinking recently about how much i hate that old canard "if it was men who got pregnant, there'd be [fantastical image of kindness to pregnant people]" - if it was men who got pregnant* then the social effects of pregnancy and childcare historically removing your gender from other social/economic activity would apply to them! even the men who did not get pregnant would be thought of in the terms of being from the fecund gender! this is not helpful!

* i'm not talking about, e.g. trans men, who are a different case, because of how intersecting social and economic pressures affect them specifically.

xposts some of my comics-favouring friends on twitter are v irate about how marvel's not planning to do a female superhero film for at least three years. where are the female superheroes ;_;

Oh :-/

I'm not really into superheroes of either gender but I was happy for you for a sec there!!

(Sorry on phone, that was re tv show)

Haha it's okay! Public interest lawyers are like irl superheroes basically so although she doesn't get the good parts of the story, there are more positive interpretations. Also tbh the hero character's approach to being a superhero is demonstrably flawed from the first ep = ain't nothing to be jealous of there.

So, in comparison to my (no BC) short, painful, rather aggressive periods of 3-5 days each month, this month it has so far gone on 8 days, no pain, no sign of easing up, less ... er, flow, but steady. 8 days is WAY outside my usual bodyclock. Should I worry? Sometimes I think I might be perimenopausal but the GP always poohpoohs me when I bring it up even tho my mum's started in her mid 40s.

...sorry for the random interjection heh.

I was thinking recently about how much i hate that old canard "if it was men who got pregnant, there'd be [fantastical image of kindness to pregnant people]" - if it was men who got pregnant* then the social effects of pregnancy and childcare historically removing your gender from other social/economic activity would apply to them! even the men who did not get pregnant would be thought of in the terms of being from the fecund gender! this is not helpful!

"If men got pregnant, you'd be able to get abortions out of vending machines" <-- this kind of thing, yeah. I can understanding getting fed up with it!

Much like "tipping" and "restaurants in NYC," nutrition talk can take over ANY THREAD. ANY THREAD I TELLS YOU.

What would happen if we had thread about tipping at a health food restaurant in NYC? Let's never do that.

in orbit, my current television namesake has a cursed vagina... that kills!!

At least they spell the name correctly.

trayce, I might bring that up to a doc, yeah.

xp Wait, I don't know what show that is!!

It's the current season of American Horror Story.

Oohhhh I've never seen it before.

Wait wasnt that the plot of "Liquid Sky"?

And a TV series here too, sort of (bout a chick whos ex's all die on her)

Is that Lost Girl, because that show is awesome.

Ha, no! Its "Laid", but theres some interesting parallels.

haha my current tv show namesake is a british clone

My only TV namesake ever was a spook!

Mine was an illiterate policewoman on The Bill.

apparently i have a TV namesake in one of the old mobile suit gundam anime series!! i hope she is a space robot pilot.

update: she IS a space robot pilot. also the princess of an aristocratic-mercantile family. oh gundam.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

My imaginary life, ages 5-12.

Well, that plus roller-skating.

<3 Spooks and orphan black :)

I'm just happy they are using the proper and best spelling.

worst period ever

my sister just brought me the world's largest candy bar, though. i demanded a chocolate rendering of the marble arch but she did her best

Mines still going. 9 days now. Its weirding me OUT.

:(

I better bloody not be pregnant.

trayce, you should see a doctor imo. if it's twice as long as your normal period, that would say that something's up. even if it turns out to be nothing, better to find out now than let it go on and have it be something ungood

Yar. I will tomorrow if things are still happening. I had a papsmear v recently tho and all was well so im not freaking out.

you could have been pregnant and just had a miscarriage :/ Or... it could just be nothing.

my awful periods have finally started to lighten up (note: they're still terrible, just less terrible) thanks to that hysteroscopy and polypectomy I had! YAYYYY

My doctor is telling me ANY hormonal birth control method is totally not okay for me. She suggested the Paraguard.

Anyone had that here? Doesn't it make your periods crazy heavy? Argh, mine are already heavy enough...

I loooooove it but yeah it made my periods heavier. Or...this might be a weird way to describe it but it made them wetter?? Like I felt the blood was thinner and soaked through more stuff (whereas I guess before it was...thicker but there was less of it?)

It has leveled out now, probably took almost a year though. And I'm still a little bit heavier than I was pre-IUD--but not the magic gushers of the first while.

Because if anyone knows where to find that rainbow magic unicorn gushing period wave img, that's basically what it was like minus the rainbows, magic, and unicorns.

http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2010/09/SHINING-ELEVATOR-DOORS.gif

That's not what I was thinking of but it'll do.

Here we go!

http://www.lunapads.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/blowup.jpg

Oh yeah that one.

i've never seen that
i like the one from the overlook better

I like the munchy tampon monsters in the 2nd one.

totally classic image

my sister has been going through awful thyroid-related stuff for the past year, too - complicated by diabetes - but i've documented most of it already in the familyproblems thread. to top off her list of illnesses/diagnoses/injuries-due-to-bad-care, today i got a msg from my mum that the recent laser surgery they performed on her eyes (bc she got some weird spontaneous burst capillary or something), which was supposed to have a side effect of improving her eye sight, has actually over-cooked her eyes and now, at the age of 26, she needs an $800 prescription for progressive lenses.

Today I purchased BCPs from a Mexican pharmacy (no Rx required, 20 USD) PRO: available, cheap. CON: do not match my former pills at all. But seemed like the best option to get me through a month before I'm back in the states and can go to PP for the first time in like 20 years (I only have catastrophic insurance atm)!

jfc your poor sister, j! I hope someday soon the tide turns and the rest of her life is the best any life has ever been, because she seems to have the worst luck! :(

Q how much is the bc? When I used to be on it (no work insurance) they were $7 a pack with a looming price increase to $10 on the horizon around the time I stopped taking them. But, Canada. It was undoubtedly subsidized.

^^ ~3-4 years ago I went off the pill iirc