[PenultimateManStanding]

She found after an extensive study that women and retired Canadian firefighters get cranky once a month.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'S')he found after an extensive study that women and retired Canadian firefighters get cranky once a month.

[Ayame]

Seriously you would be cranky too if the lining of your womb sloughed itself off every month through painful contractions. It shouldn't have taken her an extensive study to find this out especially if she is a woman. I hope she wasted her own money and not the taxpayers. Personally I don't see why it has to be everyone damn month, surely every 3 months would have been ok, or maybe even every year.

[mobil1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'S')he found after an extensive study that women and retired Canadian firefighters get cranky once a month.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayame', 'S')eriously you would be cranky too if the lining of your womb sloughed itself off every month through painful contractions. It shouldn't have taken her an extensive study to find this out especially if she is a woman. I hope she wasted her own money and not the taxpayers. Personally I don't see why it has to be everyone damn month, surely every 3 months would have been ok, or maybe even every year.

[mercurygirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'N')ature seems pretty cruel to you ladies in light of that. Then again, I think Nature had in mind for you all to stay pregnant from about 13 to 19 when you would likely die from childbirth.

[Grifter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mercurygirl', 'm')enstruation isn't that bad

[Ayame]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')btw, there is no Dr. Ann Baylor, that was just a parody of golem, the retired Canadian firefighter, and his Dr. Jill Taylor thread.

[Ayame]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mercurygirl', ' ') Nature used to have that in mind, now it has us overthinking and managing everything in order not to die in childbirth. Which in my mind, is a good thing, but gone too far, mirroring our present state.

[mercurygirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayame', 'I') was just wondering how you perceive the managing and thinking of preventing death in childbirth can ever have 'gone too far'?

[PenultimateManStanding]

It's interesting how this can work. I replaced Dr. Ann Baylor for Dr. Jill Taylor, revelation for epiphany, psychoses for schizophrenia, and PMS, my nickname, for golem, and now we have a serious conversation about serious matters. The death of a woman in childbirth is no laughing matter. Nor is menstruation. It's played havoc in my life and I'm male. I'm not so wise, mercurygirl, far from it. I wish I was.

[btu2012]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayame', 'T')o me our present state being the lowest rate of mortality of women from childbirth in the whole of human history is not a bad thing but an achievement to be proud of.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('btu2012', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayame', 'T')o me our present state being the lowest rate of mortality of women from childbirth in the whole of human history is not a bad thing but an achievement to be proud of.

[Ayame]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mercurygirl', '
')Well, if you're not a woman, to some degree you can be excused for not knowing the complex history of childbirth in the modern western world, specifically America. I'm posting a short video that shows the basic outline, as they did it better and quicker than I can. Watch it if you're inclined to be educated on the subject (turn off the cheesy music), and consider the fact that the USA is 33rd in the world in infant mortality rates, despite spending far more on the surrounding practices.