Awwww! You’s just the cutest widdle twoll EVER! Yes you ARE!
Someone who refuses to acknowledge facts as presented to them and states they not accept any other view point but their own, but wants to continue to ilicit responses merely by being an asshole…is a troll. At least you admitted it. I for one will miss you, because your bobo the howler monkey impression was the bestest.
Get a room, you two!
Two things, the one person I know who does have that response IS under medical supervision and takes two prescription medications for it and one OTC vitamin supplement. It has quelled her reactions somewhat, but it’s still something she has to deal with monthly.
The other is that for the four months I was on Ovcon 35 (for other medical issues, not PMS) I felt like Godzilla smashing Tokyo for a few days out of the month (oddly, at the beginning of my cycle). My hot flaming rage induced by this BCP is the reason I STOPPED taking it. So, medical assistance can help or hinder, but not always irradicate.
Further, I’m not kidding about how strong my anger was during those times. I still knew it was not my normal crankiness and I worked very very hard to keep my emotions and my responses to others in check. I think that the posters who are bitching about being victimized by PMS should also take a moment to thank all those women who suffer from PMS and DON’T take it out on them. I know of other women who take very strong prescription painkillers for this, and you’d never know they were suffering.
When I read the second response to this OP:
I thought, he’s right. It won’t end well. What neither of us realized is that it doesn’t look like it’ll end at all…
No, let me put some training wheels on for you, you seem to need them. I mean, did you look at the two sentances of lisacurl’s that I intially quoted? They had everything to do with ‘being alone’ and little to do with PMS in general.
Okay, try reading my posts again, your reading comprehension has been shown to have a few holes in this thread. Yeah, after she asked to ‘be alone’ reality intrudes and we couldn’t just let her be alone, she’s got a job to do. We’ve got a thousand capsules that have to be on a truck in 3 hours. So I had to insist and she went off. Now if we were in fantasyland, she’d ask to be alone and we’d let her. But no, this is the real world and that just isn’t an option. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way she wants it… well, she gets it. I don’t like it any more than you women.
This was a paraphrased incident from my past to point out that the policy of ‘leave me alone’ isn’t an option in many cases and just because someone persists doesn’t make them a self-centered asshole.
Bully for you. I bet you’ve never had a woman be unable to be around one of her coworkers because his feet make her physically ill and stay away from another coworker because they ate garlic bread the night before. But life’s weird like that.
I’ve had to deal with a half dozen or so incidents of the sort. Being the only guy in an all female store kinda stuck me in the midst of this crap, between the enablers and the ‘deal with it’ crowd. And yeah, I’ve seen people fired for being unable to work with others. But all situations aren’t equal and sometimes it goes on longer than it should. Like more than once. I don’t have any sympathy for people who take out their problems on those who have nothing to do with it, no matter the circumstance.
So it has happened to you six times. In a aituation where the staff is mostly women. And you “paraphrased” the cursing and refusing to work. And it has happened to me and** niblethead** zero times. (Furiously does math in head.) That averages out to twice per guy. And you call this a tendency? This is what women are **prone **to do? Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me.
Suck it up dude. You ain’t hurt.
Babydoll, I’ve been here since 2000. I’m not a troll, and I’m not dishonest, and I sure as hell am not going anywhere.
No, just the actual words of the encounter. It was a while ago.
Nope.
Nope, I didn’t say that either.
Well that’s because you’re making it all up. I’m just talking about ‘leave me alone’ as an acceptable way to deal with one’s problems in the really real world.
You must be a blast as a friend. "C’mon Sally, in my nearly 20 years in the workplace I’ve never been sexually harrassed. It sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me. Besides you say the boss only sexually harrassed you twice. Between the two of us it averages out to one a person. Suck it up girl, you ain’t hurt.
Your words refute you. – It tends to go more like this in reality:
tendency
b : a proneness to a particular kind of thought or action
Sigh. You are talking about cursing and personal attacks and refusing to work. Unless you want to take back your words.
Saying “leave me alone” is just a signal that one needs to concentrate on work and cannot be involved in social niceties. It is you who are taking that button and sewing a hell of a vest on t.
So now this alleged PMS behavior rises to the level of sexual harassment? Are you insane?
The suck it up was for you, dumbass. And if your beef were that too many women you work with were being sexually harassed and complaining about it, then maybe it should be “suck it up, spit it out somewhere else and don’t come back.”
Would women who agree that behaving badly and emotionally during a period is understandable, accept that it would be a disqualifier for higher office.?If you seek a female president ,dont expect such attitudes to be acceptable.You have to control it. Sorry
I don’t know, why don’t you ask one of the female governors, senators and congresswomen?
If your definition of ‘behaving badly and emotionally’ means totally out of your fucking mind, yea. Do you know anyone like that?
Obviously not. In that case, there would be fewer female leaders, and clearly that’s DISCRIMINATION!
Therefore it IS able to be handled.I think from behaving badly to totally out of your mind is a huge stretch. That means the premise that I am a oversensative because I am in my period has no validity.
I think some of you are blowing this PMS thing waaaay out of proportion. I’m a woman and have worked for many years and lots of different work environments and have yet to encounter another woman who brought up PMS except in a joking way, or that I was personally able to tell that they were suffering from PMS.
To be honest, your period is not generally a topic of conversation with most people I know.
I’m not saying that people don’t suffer from PMS, but most that do either visit a doctor or share symptoms with just their extremely close friends/family.
I’m not calling kidchameleon a liar, and if that conversation did happen I think the woman was suffering from some severe personality disorder, not PMS. That’s just nuts.
Maybe your mistaking someone being rude or a personal dislike for PMS.
Our current president comes to mind. Please please give me a woman with PMS. At least she might have a little compassion.
Well, that was six pages before a gratuitous Bush-bash. Not too bad for the Dope.
Not gratuitous at all. gonzomax opened the door with his comments about a female president.
I thought he was the best guy in 2000. (By a whisker.) I am now convinced that he is truly a horrible president, and a worse human being. If gonzomax wants to talk about female presidents vs. male presidents,** the shrub** is fair game.