Jenna: I hope we have kids someday so they can grow up and I can show them this and they can just be like “man my mom”-
Julien: So, they can emancipate themselves?
Not like women have been telling y'all this since the beginning of time or anything.
I mean, yeah, at one point three years ago I was curled up in a fetal position literally screaming/crying/gasping for breath on my bed in my dorm room, so my response to this headline is basically, “No shit.”
No wonder women are so likely to ignore heart disease/attack symptoms. If something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.
THAT LAST COMMENT
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No seriously. There aren’t enough people who understand how important that last comment is. I lost my right kidney four years ago because of “if something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.”
My. Fucking. Kidney.
Don’t force people with periods to internalize and silence themselves when they have cramps!
Can confirm “can’t be that bad because period”. I had a kidney stone and it took me like 2-3 days to realize it wasn’t my period because it basically felt like that. Pain is normal for women (and other people with a uterus), it’s part of being a woman, and so we’re much less likely to know when the pain we’re having is bad because we deal with so much of it some much more often than men do. Pain is not always a “something is wrong” indicator for us.
jesus. I never thought of it that way.
Every woman rebloging this
My mom said that her cramps were equivalent to when she was 7cm dilated during labor.
My cramps have always been significantly worse than my mom’s. I compare all other pains I have to my period cramps and because most pain doesn’t have me on the floor crying and vomiting I tend to ignore it.
I almost ignored my appendicitis because the pain from that couldn’t hold a candle to my cramps.
