Comments by "marie parker" (@marieparker3822) on "School Demands Girls Prove Pain!" video.

  1. If unbearable physical pain is not being caused by endometriosis or some other serious illness, which must be investigated, then it needs to be managed. This is perfectly possible in a first-world country in the 21st century. However, it must be recognised that for a part of the body to detach itself from the main part of the body (the endometrium of the uterus being expelled) requires a catastrophic hormonal fluctuation. This will have an effect on the brain, and immediately before menstruation starts, one will feel physically and psychologically not as strong as one normally does. There will be bank accounts of resilience, patience, humour, empathy, toleration, which are normally there to draw on if required, which will simply be closed when one is in 'the progesterone plunge' - those hours (it should not be more than a day) when the sudden cessation of progesterone secretion, combined with the low level of oestrogen, makes one vulnerable and relatively weak. This is definitely a time to stay well away from sexists, sadists and bullies, if at all possible. When menstruation begins, one should be 'on the way up' again hormonally and mentally, and any physical problems should be dealt with - not used as a USP or suffered as a masochist. Btw, I fear that such pretence about menstruation being inevitably incapacitating can be used by some people to deprive girls of their education and employment prospects.
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  2. If you are incapacitated with periods - which will occur, when not pregnant, 12 or 13 times per annum for 40 years - you must seek medical help. Periods are not really natural occurrences - Nature wants us to be pregnant at all times then drop down dead. That is what Nature wants. If you expect to be ill, you will be ill. Remember social contagion in adolescent girls. Obesity will not help. Constipation will not help. Exercise will help, judicious use of an opioid analgesic on the first day will help. If necessary, surgery to dilate the cervix will help - but this would be required in rare cases. There should certainly be an ethos, in rhe home and outside it, that you are not ill because of menstruation. It should be minimised and any negative effects controlled. If the opposite ethos is encouraged, you will spend your whole life as a facultative invalid. Don't complain if this gets you no rewards.
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