Living as a woman

[MissScarletInTheBallroom]

This is a thread for people to give examples of experiences which constitute "living as a woman".

I'll go first.

Peeing on a pregnant test and waiting anxiously to see whether a second line appears.

If the "mean girls" say so 😏. Are you saying this thread wasn't started and continued, by people who want/need to make fun of others?

If so, colour me suprised.

Over twenty years of undiagnosed endometriosis and horrendously heavy and painful periods, having my concerns dismissed, played down and sometimes ridiculed. Working in a demanding job for all those years in constant pain. Having a total hysterectomy (and instant menopause) at 40. That's the reality of it for me.

Me too, and then being told they didn’t get a big enough sample and I had to have another one 😩

I feel your pain!! Same

being asked at an interview that was actually this century if my husband would mind me being away overnight for work

I’m so sorry you went through all that 💐

Why do you think women talking about their experiences is making fun of men?

Waddling to the toilets in a shopping mall dripping blood all the way with a post partum haemorrhage.
I asked for a bin bag to sit on for the wheelchair as I didn't want to get it dirty 

Laughing so much when in a bunch of relaxed happy women - strangers but with common, shared experiences.

Living as a woman means you need to be constantly on the alert for men who wish you harm.

Feeling the bubbles in my tummy when my babies were big enough to feel them move.

Realising how much power i had over males in my early 20s, some of them would do anything to please me (being a bit scared too, because they were physically a lot bigger than me and a lot less emotionally in control about it).

The joy of female friendship, how deep and beautiful it can be when you meet another compatible female mind who wants nothing from you except your friendship.

Multiple orgasms 😍

I don’t know what to say, I’m so sorry.

Knowing I was was pregnant but that pregnancy wasn’t viable. Waiting a week, wondering if the miscarriage would spontaneously start while I was at work.
Finally having surgery for which I took 4 hours off work.
Why? Because I work in a senior leadership role and my (male) CEO would simply not want to hear about my ‘women’s problems’.

Trying to find PPE that actually fits (and is within company budget)

Hemorrhaging after a birth, thinking you are going to die. Thanks again to the staff of the NHS.😘

Well this is tricky
me and DH live very similar lives
but I’m as a woman and he’s as a man
niot sure it’s telling us anything ?

I’d work on your comprehension skills before commenting further tbh.

Bless Thankyou was not being dramatic, i am fine just part and parcel for many women.

How disgusting do you have to be to come on a thread where women are posting about some of the most horrendous things that can happen to a woman, and make it all about the men.

This is the last bit of attention I’m giving to the derail.

Without any meaningful pain relief. “Just pop a paracetamol, mild discomfort”

What is wrong with you? Your malignant narcissism is out of control.

Good thread!

Watching on a screen as part of your cervix is lasered and noticing the smell of burning flesh in the room 🤢😂

Also- post-birth: taking a jug of water into the loo with you every time you go for a wee 😬

I think you’re entitled to be dramatic after that, it’s just so wrong that so many women experience this shit. Genuine admiration for you 🤗

oh yes to feeling that first flutter of your baby moving inside you. I used to go to bed super early so I could lie there quietly and feel it when it was super faint at the earliest quickening

multiple orgasm for 5 minutes straight

wear one sanitary towel to catch my lochia, and another across my infected cesarean scar to catch all the puss oozing from it.

Being told by my male boss that I just needed to stop with the "Mom Guilt" and focus fully on work now that my generous 6 month maternity leave was over.

Never 'babysitting' my own children.
Not having a decent night's sleep for about six years when the children were tiny.
Being touched by the 55 year old guy in the office and then told I was making a fuss when I complained.
Having my first period discussed by all my parents friends in front of me.

@user1471453601 you are free to squat on this thread all night awaiting a meanie thing to be said.