Presently annoyed by the cyclical nature of a lot of women’s/hoomans with uteruses’ monthly lives.
What do you mean that this THING making me feel all kinds of ways right now only seems like a big deal because hormones??
Excuse me, I can’t create the stuff FILLING my head and heart URGENTLY because too much or too little of the “your body can make babies” chemicals (is this a way to describe that, help me smart people, please?) in my body at this time of the month are making me exhausted and brain foggy??
Hold up, the circumstance that I’m actually able to create right now what I’m PASSIONATE about creating right now isn’t because the muses have found and tenderly smiled upon me with loving inspiration but because, again, of present levels of these invisible “able to keep the human species in existence” components of my biological make-up (that sounds not just sciency but accurate as well, right?)?
You’re telling me that being more HorMOnaL some weeks than others means that I must examine what I think and feel not just in terms of subjectivity versus objectivity, not just from separating logic from emotion, not JUST to note which stem from preferences and from principles, NOT JUST keeping my mind safe from unacceptable perspectives ingrained into childhood me now replaced by those stumblingly but fiercely erected ones actually representative of my values by the me I rebuilt after leaving my family’s home … BUT ALSO THROUGH A LENS OF WILL I FEEL/THINK THE SAME WAY ABOUT THIS NEXT WEEK CUZ MY BRAIN AND BODY WILL HAVE DIFFERENT STOCK AMOUNTS OF THESE MAGICAL CREATE A HUMAN INSIDE ME FIZZY POTIONS (yeah, I gave up on synonyms for hormones that sound remotely like a normal person wrote this)?!?
It’s SUPER gaslighty, and howy fwackerdoodles, I don’t wike any of it!!!!!!!!🥺😭
And this from someone who likes kids, plans on having kiddos, and is quite happy about being a woman, just to give context. I am straight and cis, and even ME feels this way. Like, I WANT my uterus to exist and to work, I just wish it had a “sleep” function like computers do, wouldn’t that be nice?!