Strange things women do/have/endure - That guys wouldn’t know about

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Sometimes the dry pull isn't poop related. Sometimes you think you've got another day or so on the rag so you put one in only to pull it out unexpectedly dry a few hours later. Because the fun never stops, you'll go skipping out of the bathroom and proceed with your day only to be met with a random bloody gush sometime later, usually in a situation where you can't do a whole lot about it except fold some toilet paper in your underwear, if you caught it before it leaked out onto your pants.

This is why you always have multiple pads/tampons on hand during your period. You can never be too prepared when it comes to periods.

 

[ZB927]

Uh... Your vagina makes noise when putting a tampon in...?

Have you ever played with a wet pussy before? It makes a sound, not unlike that of mac and cheese.

In the immortal words of the great Sammie Bushart: "Ain't nobody stir my macaroni like he do." Word.

 

[oishii desu]

A reminder that wealthy, famous, aspirationally beautiful and fit young actresses used to look like this before our culture went insane with social media, image filters, rampant facial plastic surgery (other than the standard actress nose job), and drag queen makeup pushed on women and girls

Was reading a discussion on the other farms today about this. It's really bizarre comparing people then and now.

Spoiler: 90's

Spoiler: Now

 

[Meiwaku]

*INHALES*

• Shaving most of your body hair to conform, plus the scrutiny from both genders if we don't.
• Being able to be REALLY ugly and be taken seriously as a professional. Even to the extent of being an elected official!
• Not having to perform higher than average to be able to be seen as proficient in your job if you're in a field dominated by the other sex.
• No I'm not incompetent because I'm a woman on my period. I'm incompetent because I'm a retard.
• Being expected to do all the home chores and childcare WHILE working a normal job because you want the benefit of two incomes but still a traditional thing.
• No, I'm not emotional because it's my period, I'm not even on my period, you're just a niggerfaggot.
• INSTANTLY being sexualized when you reveal you're a woman online in any capacity.
• Accepting that a good number of the population globally will hate you because you were born with XX chromosomes and their culture sees you as niggercattle.
• How terribly men flirt. Like. Some of y'all are BAAAAAAD at it. Pajeet tier.
• Receiving unsolicited nudes.

Also I defer to comics for the rest:


Not seeing this as a double standard.


Being taken seriously by health professionals especially with women's health.

Having to deal with men who flip on a fucking dime on you being amazing or a stupid whore bitch.

 

[std::string]

You are clearly making this up. I have never once had a doctor assume I'm pregnant. This is why nobody likes women: they are shameless prevaricators who exaggerate and outright fabricate anecdotes about bad male behavior in order to make doctors, football players, politicians, and teenagers on Xbox Live look bad.

An hCG test is routine for any woman of childbearing age presenting to the emergency department.

 

[PandaChai]

So far I've learnt that they be shittin' and that periods are worse than I thought.

 

[Thé au lait]

An hCG test is routine for any woman of childbearing age presenting to the emergency department.

Powerlevel, but I've gone in for seizures before and been given a pregnancy test. When it came back negative (no fucking shit), they said "well that can't be correct, let's do another one to be sure" TWICE. Even if I was pregnant maybe do something about the patient fucking seizing first? Also they charge you for every time they decide to waste time on these fucking tests rather than addressing the problem. Then when they finally accept you're not pregnant, they don't even go on to address the fucking issue, it's immediately "well we can't figure out what the problem is" as if they even fucking tried.
Every single time I've ever had to go to the ER or bring any woman to it, it's 20 minutes of having to argue with the doctors that "no, my post-menopausal grandmother is not pregnant. Now can we please address the fact that she has a broken leg?" "WELL ARE YOU SURE THAT YOUR 80 YEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER ISN'T PREGNANT?" Every single fucking time

 

[std::string]

Powerlevel, but I've gone in for seizures before and been given a pregnancy test. When it came back negative (no fucking shit), they said "well that can't be correct, let's do another one to be sure" TWICE. Even if I was pregnant maybe do something about the patient fucking seizing first? Also they charge you for every time they decide to waste time on these fucking tests rather than addressing the problem. Then when they finally accept you're not pregnant, they don't even go on to address the fucking issue, it's immediately "well we can't figure out what the problem is" as if they even fucking tried.

Blame our fucked up medicolegal system in the US for it.

Almost all EM physicians carry $1m per case $3m per year medical malpractice insurance. Order a med for a pregnant woman that gives a fetus a touch of the tardation and the damages from the impending medmal case will blow past your liability limits.

 

[Mike Sneedsby]

An hCG test is routine for any woman of childbearing age presenting to the emergency department.

I once went with my wife to the ED due to symptoms that could hypothetically affect her then second trimester pregnancy and the ED doctor got halfway through the hCG spiel before he was duly informed that we were 100% sure she was pregnant and that was half the reason we were there. Always encouraging to be treated by doctors who don't bother to read the patient notes.

 

[Susanna]

But that does remind me of another pain women face which I don't think was mentioned yet (except not to tumble dry them), which is bras; just the whole faff of them. Under-wire? Prepare for it to poke through and jab you eventually. Front closure? Don't squeeze your arms too tight or it'll fly open. Back closure? Prepare to become a contortionist to get it done up. Bandeau style? Be ready to readjust it every 5 minutes. Buying online? There are easier ways to throw your money away. There's undoubtedly more annoyance than these few I've been privy to having had girl-friends.

I'm pretty enthusiastic about bralettes. Comfortable, and no moving parts thanks to elastic. Very good option if you aren't very busty, they admittedly don't offer much actual support.

Women seem to report pain for specific conditions as being more severe on average (and notably go to seek medical attention more often), but these reports are subjective, so they may not be reflective of how women actually experience pain compared to men. Despite this, it seems like the threshold for detecting pain may be apparently lower in women than men on average [6] [7]. From this, it seems like women may, at least, respond to pain (or feel the need to have it treated) with greater severity than men, if they don't feel it more severely. This article from a decade ago seems to offer a decent review of sex differences in pain research.

I've always seen this reported as "women have a lower pain threshold than men, but also higher pain tolerance", ie that it takes less for something to be felt as painful, but it takes more before pain becomes unbearable. It's an explanation that makes sense to me, like I've hurt my fist (play) punching a man, which he claimed he barely felt. Obviously he did feel it, but also evidently I felt it worse. We have thinner skin, it makes sense. But also women need to be able to give birth, which is extremely painful because of how much bigger infants heads are compared to other mammals, so high pain tolerance is a biological necessity.

With regard to seeing color, some women are genetically able to see more colors/see a broader color range if they have tetrachromacy/tetrachromatic vision; however, the ability is not close to ubiquitous among women. I've seen some articles estimate around 15% of women or even substantially less than that have the condition, but there seems to be no clear rate aside from consistency in that the chance of finding a tetrachromat is low. Even if women don't have tetrachromacy all the time. it does seem that men very rarely have the condition, if at all, and would have it at far less rates than women.

Pretty sure men actually can't be tetrachromats. The gene encoding for which colour receptor you have is on the X chromosome, which men obviously only have one copy of (barring certain genetic anomalies, in which case it's a promille chance on top of another promille chance, so the likelihood of even a single man in the entire world having both conditions is super unlikely). For women it's a matter of not only having both versions, but also having them both expressed (usually when two versions of a gene are present, one will take dominance). Still very rare, but at least feasible.

 

[vercingotisrix]

Ok, I have to ask since I got curious; those of you who are afraid of getting poop on the tampon string, have you tried just pushing it up and in as well? Haven’t used a tampon since I switched to menstrual cups ~10 years ago, but that’s what I used to do.

 

[TheCakeIsALie]

An hCG test is routine for any woman of childbearing age presenting to the emergency department.

This is true, but it’s also important. Even if you know you’re not pregnant, (excluding those with hysterectomies), it has to be done because of a) liability and b) meds, testing and procedures negatively affecting those who are pregnant. A lot of drugs interact with a fetus including common meds such as ace inhibitors. Anyone with x rays needs to take precautions, there are anesthesia considerations need to be made and so on.

People also lie, or genuinely don’t know they are pregnant. So it’s a CYA thing. Annoying. Sure. But it has to be done.

Also, there’s the rare possibility of choriocarcinoma.

 

[Snack Cracker]

Laughing at jokes that aren’t funny.

Feeling social pressure to laugh at a boss/coworker/family friend’s jokes.

Idk if men are actually funny or it’s all people who feel obligated to laugh at men’s jokes.

 

[std::string]

People also lie, or genuinely don’t know they are pregnant. So it’s a CYA thing. Annoying. Sure. But it has to be done.

Yeah, like I'm not ordering one for an 80-year old woman because I doubt I'll run into any characters from the Bible in my career.

But it doesn't take long working in the ED for your trust level to become extremely low. I've had patients say they've had a hysterectomy performed before because they confused it with a C-section.

 

[MrTroll]

Idk if men are actually funny or it’s all people who feel obligated to laugh at men’s jokes.

Yes, men are actually funny. The ones who aren't become women.

 

[TheCakeIsALie]

Yeah, like I'm not ordering one for an 80-year old woman because I doubt I'll run into any characters from the Bible in my career.

But it doesn't take long working in the ED for your trust level to become extremely low. I've had patients say they've had a hysterectomy performed before because they confused it with a C-section.

Sounds about right. I am outpatient peds so most of it are issues like “you need to get your kid vaxxed” or everyone’s got strep/rsv but then every so often you get the parent that denies their kid has any chronic conditions and then suddenly find they have paperwork from a cardiologist saying they have xyz condition dates months before.

Or you get a kid with high blood sugars and find out they’re diabetic but the parents are oblivious.

It’s astounding what people do not notice or pay attention to

 

[Rich Evans Simp]

Kudos if you got through unmedicated childbirth just fine without an epidural, but I was on another plane of existence from the excruciating pain, hallucinating, etc. It was genuine torture and I had PTSD symptoms from it. I genuinely believe that you could have made me say or do anything in those moments to make the pain stop. The “breaks” in between contractions almost made it worse, because then you feel the wave rising again like “oh shit, oh no, here it comes”. And I only went through labor for a few hours before that sweet relief!

 

[PandaChai]

Kudos if you got through unmedicated childbirth just fine without an epidural, but I was on another plane of existence from the excruciating pain, hallucinating, etc. It was genuine torture and I had PTSD symptoms from it. I genuinely believe that you could have made me say or do anything in those moments to make the pain stop. The “breaks” in between contractions almost made it worse, because then you feel the wave rising again like “oh shit, oh no, here it comes”. And I only went through labor for a few hours before that sweet relief!

That reminds of something actually, a younger family member recently had a baby and said the labour was excruciating and just went on and on, so much that she was relieved when a caesarean was offered even knowing the risks. When asked by old (female) family members how long it went for, she replied it was about 20 minutes. Cue scoffing from all the aunts (including her own mother!) at how frail zillennials (she's right on the cusp, so no idea which she is) are.
Now that to me seems like a very masculine thing, to puff up and - though not aloud - almost boast about the pain they endured. Is that similar to anything anyone has been witness to?

 

[Thé au lait]

Yes, men are actually funny. The ones who aren't become women.

YWNBAW

become women

Now that to me seems like a very masculine thing, to puff up and - though not aloud - almost boast about the pain they endured. Is that similar to anything anyone has been witness to?

I'd say it sounds like boomers being typical boomers and desperate to stroke their own egos about how they're better than their kids, but this is a fairly common thing. I assume it's mostly just because this is the only thing women can really brag about without men getting pissy(?)
Here's a more famous example of something similar:
But yes, it is a thing I've heard a bunch of people (almost entirely boomers and gen Xers) stroke themselves over

 

[Lady Bizness]

Kudos if you got through unmedicated childbirth just fine without an epidural, but I was on another plane of existence from the excruciating pain, hallucinating, etc. It was genuine torture and I had PTSD symptoms from it. I genuinely believe that you could have made me say or do anything in those moments to make the pain stop. The “breaks” in between contractions almost made it worse, because then you feel the wave rising again like “oh shit, oh no, here it comes”. And I only went through labor for a few hours before that sweet relief!

Your description just made my heart flutter. I don't know why my first child was such a problem. Absolutely no issues with the pregnancy other than the worst morning sickness ever, and nothing wrong with him once he was born right in time. On top of that my contractions were not regular. I spent all of my non-contraction time scared to death of the next one. Then you feel it coming as you describe. I hallucinated in pain so hard I saw Jesus become Kali become Satan, and Satan was pulling my backbone out of my writhing carcass. I could not follow anyone's directions. And yet, there was nothing wrong. I did this for 15 hours before finally begging for an epidural. Before that, gave in to some fent, it made the in between time relaxing while it lasted but the contractions still made me howl like a stuck pig.
Anyway, for the next kid I was better prepared to manage my morning sickness and got that epi way earlier.

I should know better! I can't take hormonal birth control, it's like I'm over sensitive to progesterone. During my cycle I get extremely nauseous when progesterone peaks.

I can't believe the absolute dysgenic creeps women are willing to go through this experience for. And then have some NEET kid rot in their basement. Christ, I'm trying my best to make sure tearing my body apart was worth it.