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[ageofscience]

My law school friends talk a lot about developing "law brain". In recent weeks I have similarly developed "cyberfeminism brain". It has had made me really weirded out by and critical of the internet. Hence- absence

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[sakuramochii]

pamela, i fucking love your posts. i didn't know about this "menstrual aspiration" and it's a good thing to know. you are totally right..
awww , i could have told you that you'd have bleeding if you stopped halfway through the pack... :( isn't it messed up how the hormone does things to you? this is one of the biggest reasons why i'm going off. it affects us so MUCH.
tell me more about these progesterone blisters?
and i'll keep you posted about my progress. :)

[ageofscience]

And I love you!

I've been thinking a lot recently about cultural representations of abortion and how I think it ties in so much to why we think of it as this huge ordeal that is painful and horrible and involves huge scary vacuums and things. Because I think if you make it this terrible thing, it's a lot easier to scare people out of doing it / demanding the right to be able to do it.

And yeah, it's SO MESSED UP. It weirded me out so much that I was having a period again. I was like, "how is there enough in there for this all over?!".

The blisters- I'm not sure that's what they're triggered by, but I feel pretty sure that there's a correlation. I've self-diagnosed it as dishydrotic eczema. Mine looks like a very mild case of the first picture- usually I get three or four little bumps on the sides of each of my index and middle fingers around the time of my period. It's been happening since I was 13 (when I started menstruating). When I started birth control they went away almost completely! I guess we shall see if they come back

[myrobotarmy]

i've been on the pill 3 times in the last 9 years, and i've also quit three times. life is so much better without it, sure my periods may be horribly painful and heavy, but i feel much more healthy and mentally stable :)

i started taking it again just before christmas because i was dating a guy who said he wouldn't touch me unless i was on it...which i stupidly agreed to go along with and i was a mess! headaches, bloating, always hungry and irritated. i'm never taking it again.

[ageofscience]

I'm thankful to have extremely light periods at times like this! But I do think that you shouldn't have to make a choice between being on hormones or having a terrible period! If you haven't already done so, I'd encourage you strongly to go see the doctor about what other options you have. As far as pain goes, there are all kinds of things they can give you to try. As far as heavyness- maybe using something like a keeper/diva cup would be helpful for you? I still can't manage to get mine in, but I imagine that if I could it'd be really useful!

Any boy who says he won't touch you unless you take hormones is a boy not worth keeping around anyway, I say!

[nowliexinit]

You always teach me oh so much more about female anatomy then I ever planed to learn!

OH

I know this was a few posts ago, but I read the other day that researchers were experimenting with an 'active' male birth control system based on the principle of shocking sperm to death on their way out via electrified underwear? Amazing.

[ageofscience]

Hey, straight dudes can never know too much about female anatomy, am I right?

Really? That sounds kind of insane and weirdly sci-fi! Electrified underwear already exists for ladies, but for very different purposes! I wonder if the sperm death squad stuff would actually work? Hmmm.

[blndsnnts]

This reminds me of a Bookslut interview re: a recent pro-choice publication. (I have not read the book.) In the interview is the interesting finding that more women have abortions than believe in them. I haven't been on the pill, but it discusses how the idea that there is any real mode of protecting women from getting pregnant is completely bunk. However, the book the article refers to is supposedly not the easiest read for pro-choice women (whom I am one of) because it examines how the abortion debate focuses on morality and how the pro-choice stance supposedly isn't moral. Pro-choice people are supposedly only focused on autonomy and health, etc. And also strangely enough, the writer 'recasts' (?) the abortion debate as something that should focus on the necessary issue of not wanting to have a baby, which pro-choicers focused on in the first place. This book takes a 'bioethical' stance, which is interesting

[ageofscience]

Great article- thanks so much for the link! The book sounds like it might be pretty damn frustrating to read, but a fascinating interview nonetheless

[loverain]

bahh! you lucky bitch! my boobs went super shrunkage after i went off the pill, smaller than they were before & well more skin was left behind. *cry cry*

I totally know what you mean about the expectations & cyber culture.. grappling with such issues as of late especially with my final papers all involving cmc in some way or another.

[ageofscience]

Well, it's only been two weeks yet- there is still ample time for shrinkage, I suspect. Hopefully it will not be the case, but even if it does, I won't be devastated. I'll just go buy some push-up bras for when I want to be fancy, or something.

Thankfully none of my final papers deal with computer anything- I fear I'd just rip my hair out in grief! What are you writing about specifically?