Reddit - TIMs and Periods

Thank you, it was just changed to respond to a benefit bashing post and I forgot to change it back, this has been a good reminder thank you!

It refers to Ricky Gervais calling everything Karl Pilkington said on the XFM days “Senseless Drive” 😂.

It seems funny to address a nice message to 'SenselessDrivel', but hey you picked it

I'm sending you best wishes for your procedure next month. I can understand how personal all this pretend-period nonsense is for you.
I hope everything goes well for you, SenselessDrivel
[see what I mean about the name?]

@SenselessDrivel, “our preferred gender” just says it all, doesn’t it. I’d prefer so many things to my reality - I’d prefer to be a millionaire, obviously, and never to have to deal with chin hair again - but that’s fantasy. How did we get to the point where the whole world has to play along with some mentally ill men’s play acting?

Ah but I had my “womanhood handed to me”.

Who should I thank?

I find it funny how they all have “abdominal cramps”.

A lot of women (including myself) find the cramping to be much worse in our backs.

I shouldn’t have read the Reddit posts because it made me raging angry.
I have large fibroids and have had two years of suffering, next month I’m having a hysterectomy after months on a waiting list, I’m terrified after my mum died due to complications with hers. I really wanted to find another solution but there just isn’t one.

My relationship has suffered badly because we have no intimacy due to pain and I sometimes feel like we are just roommates. I suffer with incontinence and the pain of cramps has been so bad I once visited A&E convinced I was dying.

I wonder if any of these delusional men even know what a fibroid is?! DP didn’t have a clue and he’s 40!

I have had miscarriages, an ectopic pregnancy, ovarian cysts and have never been able to have children, my reproductive system has given me nothing but trouble.
To read utter drivel about men thinking that if they are “a bit cranky” or have some cramping that they know what it’s like to be a woman is so insulting.

As for Modibodi… I’m glad I saw the advert a pp shared. I was about to purchase a menstrual swimming costume for my friend’s daughter, I’ve recommended the period pants to multiple people.
I won’t be buying from them again and think it’s disgusting that they affirm this nonsense.

It is very clearly a sexual fetish for them.

I never used to get cramps, have crying fits or want to eat chocolate. I did have to use sanpro about once a month and there was some quite spectacular bloody flooding during perimenopause, but I’m not sure now whether I actually had any periods.

Not exciting, a TURN ON

Absolutely nuts 🥜

Tomorrow: join the jollies as an online group plays 'we've got rheumatoid arthritis'. Oooh that lovely imaginary pain. Gosh it's exciting. 🙄 Next Friday, the thrills of toothache.

No but maybe I’ll wear them if i ever get uncontrollable crying fits or (more likely) abdominal cramps? apparently they help with that too

honestly TWs should sue for false advertising

Totally derailing this but I’ve LITERALLY just had a convo with my DRs for clarification as I’ve recently swapped hrt. I was on the patches (sequi) with one type of patch ( oestrogen) every 3-4 days for 14 days and then another type (prog) to bring about the withdrawal bleed. The day I started my bleed was the day I was told to restart a new pack for the next cycle.

I’ve just seen the gp as I was told to put the oestrogen gel sachet on one a day for 14 days and then to start prog ( 2 balls every night for 15 days). But I got my withdrawal bleed at day 10 which seemed very soon and so I asked for clarification on whether I should start oestrogen on the day of the bleed or do the full 15 days on prog. She then told me that I should be taking oestrogen EVERY DAY with the additional prog on top starting day 14 for fifteen days and I’m so fucking confused right now.

honestly, hrt seems like a giant unknown within our medical system and women, the ones that actually need this can’t get reliable treatment and that is what medics should be focusing on.

Nope its a lack of basic education thing it goes hand in hand with conversating instead of conversing

Someone should explain psychosomatic conditions to these delusional men

Ah, but do you also feel “affirmed” in your womanliness when you wear them? That’s important, apparently.

Yeah i wear period pants “to feel comfortable”. Nothing to do with the flood pouring out between my legs

Omg if that modibodi page doesn’t peak people I don’t know what does!

"Irregardless"

is that an American thing?

Gosh, eh? Near luna month.

Wouldn’t be all the ‘period comfort’ food they could be eating due to either the expectation of a ‘period’ or because their endocrinologist has ‘cycled’ their hormones meaning they don’t have a flat cycle of Estrogen.

So is it the accumulation of the endocrinologist’s cycle? Or the comfort eating? Or otherwise nothing because they are on a flat dose of estrogen.

It is like they dig the hole deeper with each answer they try.

The placebo effect can make some people believe anything.

Hmm. More like it shows it’s a fetish.

When I was reading through it yesterday someone had put the thought of having period pains etc was “exciting” That literally shows how little they know

I don't like to be nasty to deluded redditors, so I'm just going to say...

...have you heard about syrup of figs?

Can you summarise (in MN-friendly terms?) - it’s saying the link is “Mature Content,” only to be viewed in the Reddit app…