Women's rights general conversations - Thread 10

I love the stare into camera for the "it works" after the glasses cleaning one.

I used to have a hand towel which I’d had since I was a student which had become very thin through many washings - that was perfect, until of course it disintegrated. Then I had a microfibre towel, a longer thinner rectangle than normal towels which was good but dd took that off to uni with her. Apart from using the ready made hair turbans with a button, I recently found an old baby towel, one of the ones with a triangular corner - that works well too, back to front.

Thank you - I’ve not seen Just Melani before. She is exactly like a fabulous boss I once had in the USA - she took no nonsense and had a perfect hard stare too!

The best towels for towel turbans are IKEA's cheap, thin hand towels. Not the thicker, smaller ones, they fall off.

To make a towel (or any other) turban: Bend forwards. Drape towel over head with the edge at your hairline. Bring the ends together at your forehead, twist the ends together and tuck in at the back.

I got very good at turbans when I was having chemo!

Agree, she does the 'hard stare' to perfection.

The Pill was a real liberation for me too - more freedom to have sex with my BF was nice but the freedom from the pain was wonderful.
I managed school more or less ok because my periods were at least infrequent and I was bright enough to be able to take a couple of days off without significant impact. The climbers didn’t get to the throwing up from the pain stage did they?
Except for my bloody English lit o level which was one exam on the wrong day… I reckon that cost me a grade.

This is so funny! She had me at spitting-out-the-top-of-the-highlighter-in-a-threatening-manner😂

Afterwards before he returned it to Boots, he was curious as to its effect and tried it… yelled and fell down.

That made me laugh out loud. Quite slapstick.

I take my god daughter to music lessons and we have a bite to eat after. She had to cry off last time because of agonising period pain (she'd also missed college in the week). My sister suffered badly in her youth.

On the question of "equal rights" I think women should have extra rights because they do two things that blokes don't do. Both can be extremely debilitating and one is potentially crippling or fatal.

One of these rights could be to be able to select the most insensitive bloke they know, or just a bloke at random, who will have to try the tens machine 😆

For anyone not womaning correctly here's Just Melani saying we're allowed to say 'We do not care'. She's good. Three pairs of glasses and a panty liner stuck to her top, what's not to like 😅

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I have a neat thing called a Turbitowel that is like a hood with a long point so you put it on your head and twist the long bit round and tuck it through an elastic loop on the back. Useful!

(Those look pre-formed, but some people can make one by twiddling a hand towel.round their head.)

Towel turban after hair washing.

Same here with the towel wrap, Binturong. I'm not good at it unless I've got the right towel.

I don't woman right either. There are no dresses, heels, make-up, fake nails etc in my life. My nails are kept very short and my hair is a shortish and practical cut. As a youngster I was mystified by other girls and young women with their womanly clothes and hair and, to a large extent, they still mystify me.

None of this makes me any less of a woman and what you can or can't do doesn't make you any less of a woman either, @ISaySteadyOn

Sorry, its one of the problems.with splitting thoughts across multiple threads and other people only getting fractions of my current mental spiderweb. It was just a thought about tendencies being related to what we practice, and that often we're practising behaviours without realising.

As I've just been saying on another thread, a behaviour being more common in one sex doesn't mean it's absent in the other - or that having/not having it defines sex. And I can only do the towel wrap if I have exactly the right size towel.

I too am a woman who is terrible at womanning. I don't feel less of a woman though. I have always known that clichés about how women and men behave is generally nonsense. I was startled when I found out that 99 per cent of sex offenders are male - I shouldn't have been because if you stop and think about it it's obvious but there is a clear and stark difference in behaviour between men and women in this area. Mopping up spills - not so much.

I mostly lurk on here but I had to respond to this. What your DH did is something I, with my dyspraxic brain, would do. And it makes me feel like less of a woman because I can't do all the things that women are stereotypically supposed to do. I am terrible at multitasking and organisation, I trip over my own feet and I can't do the towel wrap on the head thing.
So when people post things like 'Men can't do x. Women are better at it', the negative committee inside my head pops up telling me that I have failed at being a woman because I can't do x.

I know this wasn't aimed at me or anything but just something to consider.

I spotted that too. So tiresome.

Great video though!

I watched the video (thanks for posting it) and then scrolled down to the comments. This pinned comment was right at the top. Of course the gender believers have been unhappy with the language used in the video and they have had to make a hostage statement clarification. Sigh.

Thanks for sharing all the period stories. I have been through my own hell which has been dealing with endometriosis and heavy periods for years.

I get so irritated when transwomen complain of their "periods" online and post pictures of them cuddling hot water bottles and eating chocolate and wanting a special fuss made over them.

Meanwhile real women just battle through the pain, bleeding, etc., and continue as normal.

@bignosebignose on the Sandie Peggie threads - it's about what an NHS computing guy did when looking at "evidence" from a mobile phone.

Apologies for cross thread musings.

MrBint spilled some water from the dehumidifier in the bathroom today, and in his quest to get something absorbent to deal with it he bypassed:
1 the towels on the rail in the bathroom
2 the whole airing cupboard full of towels in the bathroom
3 the loo roll, in the loo next to the bathroom
4 the towel in the guest room at the other end of the corridor
5 the kitchen hand towel at the near end of the kitchen (up 2 steps, along the landing, down the stairs and down 2 more steps from the bathroom - so not that near, but still closer to the spill than 6)

to reach his chosen item -

6 the kitchen roll at the far end of the kitchen.

What was the 6th best? I really didn’t want to ask but I can’t not ask because I hate not understanding things. Although I’m already starting to regret asking.