# "You can't blame me for being oversensitve on my period." Bullshit. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835 "2006-09-15T14:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/1 "2006-09-15T14:39:37Z")
I’m sick and tired of women who act like hypersensitive drama queens for three or four days a month, every month, and blame it on their period. They pick fights for no reason other than they feel like fighting. Everything in their life is going horribly, horribly wrong, and it’s all your fault. They lie, call you names, and cry. Oh Lord how they cry. They’ll cry over a fucking car commercial. You know the VW commercial where they all get in an accident and at the end someone says, “Holy…”? They cry at that. “I’m so glad nobody got hurt! Sob sob sob.” Take some Midol and get the fuck over it already. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/2 "2006-09-15T14:41:51Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Take some Midol and get the fuck over it already. I don’t so much have a problem with it, as long as men can pick 5 days a month to get away with murder too. Its only fair. Alas, it’ll never happen. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/3 "2006-09-15T14:47:40Z")
This will not end well. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/4 "2006-09-15T14:52:03Z")
Oh no. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/5 "2006-09-15T14:53:08Z")
I always maintain that insofar as men don’t have more than a smattering of estrogen running around in our bloodstream, we’re effectively _always_ PMSing, so once a month women get to go through what we deal with all the time. For some reason, that never seems to go over well, though, and the women still don’t cut me any slack. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/6 "2006-09-15T14:55:21Z")
Hrm. OP overreacts to minor inconveniences of life, blows them entirely out of proportion, and in general throws a drama queen fit… Time for some Midol? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/7 "2006-09-15T15:13:21Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > This will not end well. But it should be good for a couuple of pages, at least. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/8 "2006-09-15T15:18:32Z")
I maintain that if \*men \* suffered from bloating, menstrual cramps and mood swings there would have been legislation passed to allow time off monthly with full pay. I can’t understand the mood swings of a manic depressive since I don’t have the condition. I don’t assume that they’re just using their condition to act up because it’s something that I’m not in the position to judge. OP, You seem a little bitchy. Hormones? ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/9 "2006-09-15T15:22:40Z")
Midol makes me gassy. What’s in that stuff? I can put up with a bitchy emotional wife or a bitchy emotional wife with gas. (In fairness to the little lady, I don’t know if it makes _her_ gassy or not, but I don’t want to find out.) ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/10 "2006-09-15T15:22:57Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > “I’m so glad nobody got hurt! Sob sob sob.” I gotta say, for whatever reason I find this characterization ineffably funny… I think it’s the “sob sob sob” at the end. Or maybe it’s the lack of sleep on my part. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/11 "2006-09-15T15:24:16Z")
> [@Bobotheoptimist](#): > > Midol makes me gassy. What’s in that stuff? > > I can put up with a bitchy emotional wife or a bitchy emotional wife with gas. > (In fairness to the little lady, I don’t know if it makes _her_ gassy or not, but I don’t want to find out.) Actually, what I want to know is how you found out that Midol makes _you_ gassy. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/12 "2006-09-15T15:24:40Z")
Meh. I agree that some women use their period as an excuse, but generally I see it as a cliche on tv more than I ever hear about it in real life. I don’t get bad PMS and my husband doesn’t even know I have my period unless I tell him, I don’t notice a big change. I did suddenly get weepy for no reason when I was newly pregnant though, so I don’t deny that hormones have no effect at all. I don’t easily cry at things but I cried then at things that weren’t even sad. So I don’t discount women entirely when they say their hormones make them react differently to things. However, when that happened to me I realized it was hormones and tried to laugh about it when it happened and realize that I wasn’t really upset, it was just the hormones. I do feel bad for women who get bad PMS every month, it sucks to be in pain for a few days every month. But I think I can tell the difference when women are really having a difficult time and when they are just behaving badly and looking for an excuse. Both happen. Guys can experience crazy hormone shifts and resulting emotions for themselves by going on steriods. Enjoy the results for yourselves! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/13 "2006-09-15T15:29:10Z")
Never trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die. ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/14 "2006-09-15T15:33:01Z")
I do get more weepy than usual at that time of the month. I’ll cry at the Red Barn commercial because the puppies and kittens are so darn cute. I also get very tired and usually go to bed much earlier than normal. What’s it to ya? > [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Take some Midol and get the fuck over it already. You first. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/15 "2006-09-15T15:34:39Z")
> [@MilTan](#): > > Actually, what I want to know is how you found out that Midol makes _you_ gassy. Er, ah… well you see, after a workout (well, after building cabinets full of ED6140 Directors for the EOQ sales rush) I had a back spasms and decided that my back muscles were cramping, see? Midol is for chicks with cramps, right? Should work for sore backs too, right? A) No II) 4 years later I’m still the guy that took Midol. 3) Hi Opal ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/16 "2006-09-15T15:36:20Z")
[There will be wigs on the green](http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-wig1.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/17 "2006-09-15T15:37:19Z")
Another vote for - you’re not dealing with me, so what’s it to you? And FTR. I don’t get bitchy at that time of the month, just very very sad. I can’t help crying at stuff. And I don’t really think you have any ground to stand on unless you’ve been there, Mister man. This rant is silly and age-old. You’ve got a few choices - find a woman that either doesn’t manifest it or doesn’t show it. Give up women and go gay. Or deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![Wnabtokio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Wnabtokio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wnabtokio)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/18 "2006-09-15T15:39:51Z")
My boyfriend looks forward to my time o’ the month, because I act a lot more lovingly during it. He’s much more likely to get a homecooked dinner, a backrub, a blowjob, etc., than when I’m not on it. Sometimes, hormones are a good thing. Maybe you just need to hang out with a different type of woman, **Lord Ashtar**. I can’t be the only woman like this. Although I do cry during commercials. I can’t help that. And yes, I actually SAY “sob, sob, sob”. Well, I will from now on. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/19 "2006-09-15T15:40:26Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > [There will be wigs on the green](http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-wig1.htm) Nice post. And thanks for the link to that site. It is now bookmarked. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835/20 "2006-09-15T15:44:23Z")
Serious PMS – like the kind the OP described – is nothng to laugh about. Let’s change sexes for a month. You deal with excruciating cramps, tender breasts, and navigating the crying/screaming emotional tightrope for 2-4 days (not to mention actually menstruating), and I guarantee you will never, ever bitch about it again. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-blame-me-for-being-oversensitve-on-my-period-bullshit/372835.md?page=2)