Do it for your boyfriend.
July 30th, 2008 by Olivia
Call me crazy, but for some reason, whenever someone tells me to stop being a bitch, I want to be waaaay bitchier. Like when a 1970s Midol ad tells me that I have to be nicer to my fucking boyfriend when hemorrhaging from my vagina, I get violent! I want to put on a husband-beater, and give my boyfriend a black eye! It’s totally not his fault, he deserves the utmost kindness, but I kinda think that with all the shit women have to go through, they should be nice to us when we have our periods. It shouldn’t be “blowjob week” as many guys like to imagine. It should be “buy your poor girlfriend something pretty and feed her ice cream week”. I’m not even on my period anymore and this still pisses me off. Can we get some rights up in here? Anyone else driven to inexcusable fits of rage by rather innocuous adverts from decades past?
Uh. That is pretty fucked. When it’s that time I don’t fucking care what he thinks. I love him & all that jazz, but homeboy KNOWS he best keep himself on his toes cause I have a short fuse & the hunger of a pot head.
My jaw dropped and I immediately got enraged by this ad, and mankind in general.
But then I thought about the last time I told my boyfriend I was dying and wished I had a hot water bottle or someone to punch me in the stomach. He walked away as I was sprawled out in the living room - I assumed cuz I was biting his head off - and when he came back he had in his hand a Nalgene bottle filled with boiling water. So they’re not all bad. Kinda clueless, but not bad.
buahahaa. we bleed for a week. thats fucking gross. but one time i got into an arguement with a boy over which was prettier: a penis or a vagina. needless to say, his case was pretty strong.
they should be nice to us. we are sacred vessels. (Juno ref anyone?)
afuckingmen. fuck blowjob week.
i no longer call it blowjob week, i call it monster bitch from the depths of hell week. gettin’ some brains? i’ll cut you.
Crazy 70s housewife bullshit. Please, I use my visit from Aunt Flo as an excuse to be as fucking lazy as I please. I never tell him the day I start it because I like to use “wahhh but I’m on my period” even when I’m fine. He’s a dude. He’ll never know.
Me: Can you go get me an ice cream pop?
Him: I’m watching TV. Why can’t you get it?
Me: Uhhhh I’m on my period.
Him: My poor, poor baby. Let me get you anything your heart desires.
Even when I’m not riding the crimson wave. It’s awesome.
Maybe not an ad of the past, but what about the whole pregnancy test advertising genre period…. I mean, who else thinks the commercial with the giant pee stick floating in space, touted as the “most advanced thing you’ll ever pee on” ad is completely ridiculous and could have NEVER been created by a woman??
Why don’t they make it realistic. I don’t know many women who care if they know three days sooner that they are pregnant so they can hop on the happiness of dia[er hunting with their loving husband. They need to show the hungover sorority whore anxiously waiting for those pee results….
if you think this is bad… find an excerpt from what used to be college textbooks for girls… at like wellesley…. it teaches you how to be a good wife and put up with your husbands shit. it teaches you that hes always right. bs!
i agree.. i think every week should be blowjob week
but fits of rage? maybe YOU need a midol
Someone in the art/design dept needs to revise this triflin’ shite. I’m NOT impressed, but then again, it was the ’70’s.
Look at this
It’s in French and it means “Every 28 days, women are evil”.
Yup.
And this article is in “La page santé” (i.e.: “Health Information”) of your classic newspaper.
This is complete Bull. The man who thought up this nonesence obvs deserverves to die. Hopefully a long long death. Douche.
Just watch Mad Men. It’s a great show even though I always get pissed off at how women used to be treated or even how they thought of themselves back then. Good thing I was born in the 80s…
i become highly verbally abusive this week toward my boy, and most others around me. It’s like some Jekyl and Hide shit..i feel your mojo. Red week should be “Hug your teddy bear and watch re-runs week” while induldging in a carton of delicious frozen good of course.
i could fucking annihilate that picture with gnashing teeth right now. FUCK THAT. I am PMSing so much right now and I was actually trying to google “irritability/pms relief” with no avail. How do i fix this??
I DO NOT CHOOSE TO FEEL THIS WAY, IT ISN’T LIKE WE HAVE AN OPTION TO HAVE A PERIOD
i guess we could have a hysterectomy
but i’m totally with you on the “when people tell me to stop being bitchy it makes me bitchier”
another one of my favorites is when i’m told the duration of time i’m allowed to be angry at someone…that just makes me angry for far longer!