A completely disgusting entry. Consider that your warning.

[naamah_darling]

It will not surprise anyone who has ever owned or known a longhaired cat to learn that Tazendra gets dingleberries stuck in her butt fur. Tonight she brought home the motherlode. I will be damned if a single nugget of it reached the litter. So, in the middle of trying to watch a movie and prepare the next fever_dreams update, I suddenly have a lapful of

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[manycolored]

Oh wow, what a night.

I am trying to remember where I read it - I think it was a Dawkins book - but it said that menstruation has been getting much worse over the most recent tens of thousands of years of human evolution. With civilization, women smelling of blood and feeling poorly didn't make them any less likely to reproduce or raise their kids successfully, and quarantining all the women for 5 days a month seemed to have beneficial effects (hello, arts and crafts and story telling!) so there was nothing to stop menstruation from drifting off toward the horrific. (Drunkard's Walk problem.) Any rate, the author postulated that in the stone age, menstruation looked a lot more like estrus - a little gooey, but not terribly uncomfortable or messy.

[camilla_anna]

And some of us still have that. I feel awful for people with really nasty periods all the time, but I only bleed like the stuck pig twice a year. This doesn't stop my body from cramping like the bastard.

And, oh yeah. Menopause sucketh. It takes too long to be a relief.

[snowcoma]

I love your icon! Is it snaggable?

[camilla_anna]

Sure!

I believe the creator is credited on my icon page.

[liminalia]

Oh bullcrap. The author obviously never owned a female dog. Girl-mammals bleed all over the place, stone age or no.

[deltachild]

That's genuinely fascinating! Can you remember which Dawkins book it was? I've got a couple of them lined up to read, but that one snippet has made the book it contains edge closer towards the top!