the-bearded-poet:

mustyoshi: sexselector: Why do we take it for granted that women’s bodily processes just normally hurt? Is that what we would assume about men if every time they came, their balls ached unbearably for 3 or so days? If men had the prob, there’d be millions of dollars thrown at it, pain pills flying through the air, and… Did you really just say that periods hurt, because the Patriarchy made it so? Actually, she was saying that the fact that we don’t have substantial treatment for period pain is a result of the patriarchy, which is a somewhat more valid point. What I’d have picked out of that to be derisive toward is the fact that the author thinks that nuclear power isn’t safe and that she believes that EMFs are actually dangerous. Those statements sound like something you’d hear forty years ago, not today. It’s pretty embarrassing.

I gave 3 solid and large reasons for how the patriarchy *creates* period pain. Nature does not make bodies that need to be treated. That is not an evolutionary strategy. The patriarchy’s millions of woman-squashing behaviors makes the pain occur. Every day, drop upon splash upon drop is tossed in our buckets. The heavy load is killing our insides. Hence pain.



Women do not just “deserve to hurt”. Women are not some opposite-day aliens in which pain means something different from what it means in men.



Basic fact: pain means something’s wrong.



The thing that is wrong is not that women are broken. We are assaulted by poisons all day, don’t even get me started on taking the pill or using so-called feminine hygiene products.



This. Breaks down. Our plumbing. It is not our fault. It is the patriarchy’s fault.



The green movement as the gov bills it is bullshit, I’m sorry to report. Our bodies have electrical fields, people. Yeah EMF affects you. So does radiation emitted from plants. We know this. :/