to object to seeing "bear in mind I am pg and hormonal" being trotted out as an excuse for unreasonable behaviour on this forum?

[bibbitybobbityhat]

If you are pregnant you can be feeling sick/tired/anxious/have spd etc

BUT - does it let you off the hook for behaving like a primafuckingdonna?

I think not.

[FunnysInTheGarden]

YANBU. I was never a nutter when pregnant/hormonal (except for a bit when I was BF) No need at all, and no excuse

[TheArmadillo]

YANBU.

I hate I am being hormonal as an excuse on any occassion.

[weedle]

Of course it does, in that same way that 'baby brain' is a perfect excuse for forgetting a birthday or anniversary

[AgentZigzag]

Agree it's not an excuse to be trotted out repeatedly, but being pregnant does fuck your head up.

Which thread are you talking about?

[ManicPanic]

Fuck you OP.













Only joking, but you knew somebody was going to do that!

[marmaladetwatkins]

Ooooh I disagree

I cringe when I look back at my behaviour when I was pregnant but I felt perfectly reasonable at the time.

[flippintired]

Nope YANBU I bloody hate it when women do that. Really lets the side down. I want to shout "get a grip, you self indulgent moo"

[Whatevs]

I was an A grade nutjobber when up duffed with my first child (and for some considerable time after he was born).

Wasn't too bad with second baby, thankfully.

The hormones do drive some of us round the bend, sorry OP.

[Goblinchild]

YANBU, it may be a reason for some of the foolishness but it really shouldn't be an excuse.

[FunnysInTheGarden]

pregnancy hormones were fine, BF hormones are nuts. I seriously nearly lost the plot wile BF...........

[FunnysInTheGarden]

while

[SolarPanel]

YANBU. If women make this excuse ourselves, it's less surprising if male misogynists use it against women....

[Rowan49]

For being rude no, I understand people who get more sensitive/upset over seemingly nothing because of hormones though. I cried a bit because of someone being nasty on one forum because of AF blush

[ManicPanic]

Actually I'm reasonable convinced that being pregnant + having children makes 90% of us a bit neurotic, in varying degrees, including the men.

Like dh always insisting on sitting on dd's nappy changing mat to warm it up for her so she didn't get cold while being changed

Also he did not like to take her out in the buggy if it was even slightly windy, because her perfect skin might then become chapped or develop chilblains or something. Bless him.

[worraliberty]

YANBU at all

[AgentZigzag]

I wasn't self indulgent, but I did nearly set the house on fire four times when I was pregnant with DD2 (leaving the straighteners on for 24 hrs - 3 times, and going out leaving the chicken steaming on the cooker) which I can catagorically say is not typical behaviour for me.

[Whatevs]

So we should conform to a male dominated society for fear of upsetting the apple cart and giving the male misogynists ammunition?

I didn't say I was in capable of doing a day's work, managing a team, making work-related decisions. Just that, in my private life, I was definitely being driven by something quite primal and physical and hormonal. Not unlike PMT, really. Which exists, whether that inconveniences men or not.

[Whatevs]

A lot of men totally freak out, too, btw. And they can't blame it on hormones

[bibbitybobbityhat]

up duffed?

fgs

[Ormirian]

Yanbu.

Yes hormones change mood. So do, for example, tiredness, stress and giving up smoking but you wouldn't accept them as excuses for being rude or unreasonable.

[dreamingbohemian]

YABU

I never get the sense women say 'I'm hormonal and I can be as rude and U as I want to be'

I think women usually mention the hormonal as a way of explaining why they are behaving uncharacteristically

If you've never been insane from hormones, lucky you, some of us are more affected than others

[dreamingbohemian]

Ormirian, actually I have accepted lots of cranky behaviour from friends who were trying to quit smoking, for example

I don't take it personally, I know they're having a hard time, and they always apologise later

Can't we get some empathy up in here?

[bibbitybobbityhat]

I am menopausal atm bohemian so just about as hormonal as its possible to get.

I don't try and excuse unreasonable behaviour with it, though.

[BaronessBomburst]

Try PMT whilst BF. That's the worst hormone combination known to man. Well, to my man, at any rate.