Reply #271: which is why we are all perpetually washing it away

[TorchTheWitch]

We spend more money on soaps, shampoos, deodorants, antiperspirants, perfumes and all the other various items to make ourselves less icky... heck, we even shave off a lot of our natural icky hair. When we encounter someone who doesn't perform these basic cleansing rituals often enough we don't want to be around them because their natural ickyness offends us.

Yes, our human bodies extrete all sorts of icky substances, and we're perpetually doing everything we can every day to get it off of us.

Menstruation is GROSS. I personally don't know of a single woman I've encountered in my entire lifetime that DOESN'T find it gross and dearly love to not have to deal with it. I assure you I have ALWAYS hated having a period every month, and I'd still hate it even if all there was to it was the bleeding. I put up with it only because I have no alternative. But in no way, shape or form do I find anything about it the least bit pleasant, and am much more pleasant of a person those weeks I DON'T have it.

There isn't a woman on this board that wouldn't prefer to NOT have them. A great deal of our bodily functions are unpleasant or even downright horrible, and I'm really resenting being made to feel like there's something wrong with me because I DO find menstruation gross, uncomfortable to downright painful, and HUGELY annoying. Because normal body function or not, it IS.