Does anyone else hate their period and hate the way women talk about their period?
I hate the way my period feels. I'm angry, smelly, and my sensory issues get so much worse. It's painful. When I talk to my mom about it, she says that she feels like a "goddess" on her period. When I say I don't feel like that, I feel gross and in pain, she gets downright hostile and says I don't feel that way because I'm a lesbian.
I notice that branding around period products has to do with the moon, flowers, pink and feminine. Everything about it makes me cringe. When I was younger, I wanted a hysterectomy to make it stop. It's taken me a while to think of periods as a neutral thing that bodies do. I don't have to wear uncomfortable pads or insert painful tampons. (Thank you, June Cup)
When people talk about how periods are wonderful, miraculous things, I just feel terrible.