Recently, I had a conversation, albeit a short conversation, with someone who tried telling me that the female experience of having a period, was equal, if not comparable to "having to deal with" the complaining of women on their periods, or even being called "pervs." The reason this conversation didn't last very long at all was because I wasn't going to let this guy leave this interaction without at least a new, less narrow-minded thought to think over. Needless to say, this blew my freaking mind.

I've read and heard things like "it feels like a knife being twisted after it has just stabbed you in the stomach" and "having your insides grounded up day and night". If words aren't enough, just watch how pained the women in your life look once a month, and how they act, just from being in so much pain. Not to mention, there's an immeasurable imbalance of hormones going on inside these human beings, that is completely beyond their control, yet many men seem to find it funny enough to joke about. The fact of the matter is that there are very few times in a man’s life where he'll even have the opportunity to feel the roller coaster of emotions that a woman has to feel for days on end, once a month, for years and years of their lives. Let's not forget that women are the ones going through childbirth.

There's a serious lack of empathy in people like this, in my opinion. To be capable of hearing things that are closer to pleas for sympathy than aggressive attacks, and still do some sort of misogynistic math that makes men the victims. That is a feat in and of itself.

Oh, and about the whole "being called pervs" thing...are you serious? I mean come on, man. You ever think, "Hey, maybe they're not being bitches. I'm probably making this person uncomfortable" for even a second? It always baffles me how little perspective people have on these situations.

I'll leave you with this question; why do you still not get it?