YEP. Yes. Definitely This. ALLLLL of this. There was not one point where I sat down and said "Where is Gaga?"

I believe you. For my own part, I have informed a few key people around me that I myself do not actually suffer from PMS. Rather I have a compromised immunity to bullshit that manifests every 28 days and it's up to them to protect me by not being dicks, kind of like wearing a mask if you have a virus. And, I take…

Oh, you get frustrated, do you? You know what's actually frustrating? Having debilitating fucking menstrual symptoms. Ten years ago, my cramps were so severe I spent the first 48 hours of every menses vomiting up bile between bouts of violent liquid pooping. Pop an ibuprofen? I wish! The amount of red…

Ibprofin didn't touch my period pain. Neither did codeine. The pill makes me suicidal. It still took doctors 13 fucking years to prescribe me mefenamic acid and put me on anti Anxiety meds. So no, it's not a case of just dealing With it, no matter what you or a number of docs seem to think.

I feel your frustration, but I also understand that PMDD is real and that some people’s menstrual pain is so bad an ibuprofen doesn’t do the job. I had PMDD from ages 11 - 16, and while I was ashamed at the fact that I was fitting into some “harpy hysterical woman” trope, it was absolutely terrifying how I had no…

The anus cramps. are. the. worst. It like, shoots through you suddenly so that you go all wobbly and grimace, and probably make a noise like "AhhhhhhHHHHHHHHbleh". As if that's not noticeable to others haha.

You realize that plan just doesn't work for everyone right? I was on birth control for 8 years, and unless vomiting, passing out and cramps so badly that once I didn't even realize I had appendicitis is what you consider a breeze, I see a serious flaw in your argument.

i'm always that bleeding heart hippy who plays devil's advocate in cases like this. i talk about how pedophiles are almost always molested as children or how even the most hard hearted people should be met with compassion and opportunities for redemption. i go on long rants about how destigmatizing mental illness and…

What the fuck?! When is enough enough? When do we start fighting back?

I couldn't believe how sad I was watching last night. That felt like the realest thing that has ever happened on The Bachelorette. And then I was all "I don't want to watch a real break up, I want to watch a fake falling in love."

I don't know her but she seems like a total badass who is incredibly centered. She endured abuse I can't imagine, isolation, rape, and was forced to give birth to her rapist's daughter, who she raised in that environment and continues to raise. She apparently tried to escape many times despite the risks and finally…

Agreed. On all points.

I feel like this man was willed in to existence by the collective consciousness of at least 10% of tumblr's population.

I think to be on a diet, you almost HAVE to be obsessive-compulsive. I tried Paleo twice for 6 months, and dear God, is it a time of work. Yes, there are people who insist you can do Paleo "easily"... if you're a cooking master OR don't mind eating the same damn thing for every meal. And that's once you can actually…

Ugh, my brother is always on some kind of special strict diet. First he determined that he was gluten intolerant. This wasn't medically diagnosed, of course. Everybody has to bend over backwards so that there isn't so much as a sprinkle of gluten-containing seasoning near his food. Now he is on the Paleo diet. My…

This is probably a controversial opinion, but I've noticed that a lot of people on extreme dietary restriction (and veganism IS diet restriction, healthy/ethical or otherwise) tend to be a little obsessive compulsive. Anyone who defies their worldview - or, worse, adopted their worldview then rejected it - disrupts…

Almost seven years married and I would say the sex is different from when we were first dating, different from when we first started living together but not worse. It is like discovering an awesome new food. When you first find it you are all "omg. I could eat this all day every day until the end of time." And it goes…

I’m in Australia metaphorically high-fiving the shit out of Wendy Davis, right now.

Definitely. SB5 was defeated because a lot of women got angry and got loud. And when they tried to cheat us after the clock ran down we called them out on it and they backed down. This is what our anger can do.