Not everyone who likes having a period does it out of sheer hippiedom. I had to be on the pill when I was in my teens because I had periods that never stopped. I nearly had to have a blood transfusion, I was *that* anemic.

The various dosages/brands/mixtures of the pill I tried made me morning sick, bloated, depressed, amd aggrivated my ulcerative colitis. I also just felt strange.

Now that I’m older, my periods are pretty light and managable, and I like the tickly feeling of it running out of me. I like the way I feel brilliant in a beautiful world on the second day of my period. I love how the hormonal fluctuations cause all sorts of changes in my sexual response patterns.

I completely empathize with desperately wishing it would stop, and I understand enjoying the experience. I like my biology sans pill, but pills sure did save my butt. Anyone who wants to do away with their periods should use science to their advantage. It might be worth looking into the Mirena, because then one doesn’t even have to remember the pill whilst cavorting about being an unnatural, baby-”hating” castrating slutasaurus rex!

Screw all that womynly life magick stuff. If there’s a pill that’ll make me stop bleeding without messing up my head, sign me right up.

Flamed? You just made my week.

A seventy year perv can take a pill so he can rape at his leisure, but a woman must spend years of her life imprisoned by her body, if not by pregnancy, then by the shame and the physical disability of menses.

Yes, I have that condition where I overbleed, called whatever I don’t remember because not one GD doctor in all my life has ever bothered to give a damn enough to even let on that such a condition exists. Years of embarrassing bleed throughs, debilitating cramps, wild mood swings and depression and incapacitating anemia are supposed to make me feel like a woman.

Get out of my way you bitch Donaldson, I’m getting the damned pills.

Simple. Men need their erections, and they need to know women are in pain at least once a month. Else, they can’t sleep at night.

Or something…

At which point the term “Autumn in the pine barrens” was introduced.

Ha. Fabulous.

P.S. Yeah, i love the Ani DiFranco quote, too. That song is quite a few years old, too, and doesn’t really relate at all the to the sentence above it, leaving me to believe the writers were, like, “dude, don’t feminists talk about their periods alot?” “Yeah, man, who was that one feminist, you know, from the 90s? I bet she said something about her period, once,” “dude, google that shit … ”

Okay, I don’t know why in my mind the writer just became two people, and a stoner, but whatever.

If they were going to go with an Ani-period-quote, for shock value, they should’ve used “I’m gonna pull out my tampon / and start splashing around …” from Swan Dive … Hell, Ani could be the new poster-woman for Lybrel with that quote ….