to-theleft:izomo:brigantes:girls on their periodsRemember guys, don’t give girls the benefit of the

to-theleft:izomo:brigantes:girls on their periodsRemember guys, don’t give girls the benefit of the doubt their emotions could be blamed on hormones going crazy in their body.  It’s not about giving us the benefit of the doubt, it’s about trivializing actual emotions or writing them off as just some side affect of periods. If I’m angry it’s because I’m fucking angry, and I don’t need anyone making excuses for me and shoving my emotions aside.Hormones do not, of course, control what anyone thinks, but they can certainly effect how we feel, how we perceive events, and how we behave.  Some people are very passive in their relationships, and let a lot of things that bother them go unmentioned, and build up inside.  Then comes a hormone jolt (or even, say, an alcohol jolt), and things spill over.  What’s a partner to think, except that the sudden turbulence and outpouring is tied directly to this?After thousands of years of songs about fickle mistresses, poems about fortune, and lore of the moon, periods are still pretty mysterious to men. Women and medical science may inform them, but they will never really understand what it’s like, and, importantly, men are virtually powerless to help it.  That in itself is damned frustrating, and contributes to a dread of the event.  It cuts deep into masculine psychology.  We want to identify problems*, and then solve them.  FIX EVERYTHING.  Imagine watching your lover becoming, seemingly, a different person when he drinks on the weekends.  Right or wrong, you might blame the booze.  …And then you would grow to hate it.  You might even feel like it’s taking him hostage.  Now imagine not being able to tell when he had been drinking. -- source link

More pics about