Prepare for Overshare

So I got a visit from Aunt Tampon Face.  Wait, that's not how it goes...  Whatever, you get the point.

For anyone else this probably wouldn't be so novel, but I have an ailment that suspended my period for literally years at a time.  It was pretty great!  But also worrisome.  Obviously not a sign of vigorous health on my part.  Thankfully (?) that seems to be resolved, as this one makes it two in a row, and just about right on time, without the intervention of medication.  I can't say I enjoy it much but it's better than the last one, when my body seemed to be making up for lost time by cramming over a year's worth of cramps into one menstrual cycle.  Being a mammal is pretty weird!

Being female seems like slightly unfamiliar territory for me.  There are some things I took to right away, like an attraction to fashion and make-up and boys.  But the whole idea of some parasite-like creature growing in my abdomen only to shoot out of my delicate lady parts after hours of agony pretty much disgusted and scared the crap out of me.  Yes, I occasionally suffer from baby fever, but when my hormones aren't distorting my understanding of life, I still think it's scary and gross.  This means I will probably never have kids.  Heck, I'm already 28 years old.  All signs point to a childless life this time around.  Besides, I'd be a horrendous parent.  I'm radical, disorganized, messy, lazy, and a misanthrope.  What kind of a life is that for a kid?  He'd turn out to be super weird and not fit in to society at all.  Kind of like me.  No, I think I had better stick to other life lessons this time around.  Thank God for contraception and the new-found freedom and power over our reproductive systems!  Take THAT patriarchy!  Huzzah!

Anybody who thinks women should have control over the reproductive power of their bodies, raise your hand.  Everyone else- please go fuck yourselves.

Sex is as much a natural urge as any other appetite we humans have.  People who offer celibacy as the only alternative to conception may as well be saying "Abstain from eating, or eat when and where we tell you to.  Those are your only choices."  The Catholic church's long-standing disdain for contraception is nothing more than an outgrowth of patriarchal control over women and their reproduction.  It's all about power.  It has nothing to do with morality, nothing to do with making a better world.  Its consequences are so harmful to this planet that it fills me with disgust and contempt just thinking about it.  But the Catholic church itself is so full of sickness and dysfunction these days, anyhow...

It is so ironic that conservative, religious people seem obsessed with enacting laws that curtail one of God's greatest gifts, the thing that makes us human, for better or worse... our free will!  Our freedom to choose the course our soul will take through this world.  If God doesn't put any limits on our behavior, for good or for evil, what the Hell makes those people think it is THEIR job to do so?  Again, go to the back of the line, and put your thumb up your butt.

The whole idea is, YOU have the freedom to choose whatever weird nonsense is prescribed by your cult leaders, and I get to choose what I want to do with my body.  I wont stop you from abstaining from sex, so don't stop me from using a condom, or whatever.  Get it?  It's win-win!  Anyway, I need to get back to not having any kids now.  See ya later!  =)