30-35 years of intense and traumatic pain monthly, as if rats are gnawing out your intestines, is not adequate compensation for the need of men for you to birth babies, sis. There's got to be other ways.

is hysterectomy and they didn't want to do that, even when I ASKED 16 years ago, in case I wanted just one more kid.

Y'all. So much pain.
I'm processing that, now, and thinking about what it'll take to make sure the next generation doesn't experience it

all the times I lay on the floors of bathrooms, retching and crying in extreme pain as a teenager. The later infertility. The pain. The incredibly heavy periods. The increase of symptoms at perimenopause.

So many years of doctors telling me this is normal "female pain," because the only treatment

Looks like me when I have just been woken up 🤨🤣

My brain right now

At this point, I would probably be ok with this Friend-Shaped sweetie ripping my throat out as I tried to hug it 🤷‍♀️

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I have used em dashes for decades; crushed to learn people think only genAI uses them 😢