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    "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker

    Aunt Flo Visiting? My Little Red Book Demystifies Periods

    What Should Be In A First Period Kit?
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    Image of Hana Maru Hana Maru
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    My faves are "staying the week at the Bates Motel" and "the Red Sox have a home game"
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    Image of CherriSpryte CherriSpryte
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    I go with either "on the rag" or "bleeding from my uterus". I kind of really, really like "Shark Week" though.
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    Image of picardia picardia
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    I always liked Erma Bombeck's euphemism: "Another No Baby Month."
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    How about, out with the old(uterine lining), in with the new(uterine lining)! No? No, it's not really catchy, I guess. You guys all had better ones anyway.
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    Image of Eric Northman is mine Eric Northman is mine
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    Lol about the boy who got kicked for asking his 6th grade friend if she was her period when she was in a huffy mood. I swear if my lad asks me if i'm on my period when i'm in a pissy mood, i'd kick him too. Now, if i'm stuffing my face with gummi bears, chocolate covered oreos and kit kats, that's fair game.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    What a neat girl. Good for her, being smart and all, and not taking any crap for it. It's about time we had a book to give our daughters explaining things and telling stories about it, rather than shaming or shushing them when they start their periods.


    I refer to mine as my "goddamn fucking period."

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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    There was a bit in the interview about the celebration of the first period in some cultures, with wine, food, and song.


    I celebrate all my periods with wine, food, and song:


    1) Giant sloppy amounts of cheap red wine
    2) Giant sloppy amounts of stewy, saucy, or cheesy comfort foods
    3) Angry songs that expel those misgotten, unused ova faster


    I actually kind of like getting my period because it gives me an excuse to do all these things.

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    Image of EsmereldaFitzmonster EsmereldaFitzmonster
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    My gap summer after high school and before university... was spent at a summer camp with 13-year-olds, trying to convince them not to spend $60 on candy, holding them when they did spend $60 on candy and were sobbing from the ensuing sugar migraine, and figuring out whose idea it was to have an Axe fight (the cologne, not the hacking tool, and yes, that was my first thought when I found out).


    Her gap year after high school and before Yale... was spent editing her book and becoming a pastry chef.


    Oh dear.

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    Image of hydrogen_jukebox hydrogen_jukebox
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    I feel like I could make an awesome "my vagina is a communist" joke somewhere here, but it's just not coming out.
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    Image of CarrotFlowers CarrotFlowers
    03/17/09

    @hydrogen_jukebox: Red scare?
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    Image of hydrogen_jukebox hydrogen_jukebox
    03/17/09

    @CarrotFlowers: Something like that!
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    Image of Shamrockette Shamrockette
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    Mine is "my cherry ICEE-maker machine is malfunctioning."
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    Image of water baby water baby
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    I love how threatened that man was by her "little project." The fact that he is so bothered by a book written to help women understand their own bodies speaks volumes to me, even more so than the fact that he and his wife do not discuss her periods.
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    Image of jurisenpai jurisenpai
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    I call it "Shark Week."
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    Image of hydrogen_jukebox hydrogen_jukebox
    03/17/09

    @jurisenpai: Mine's similar: Red Week.
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    Image of EsmereldaFitzmonster EsmereldaFitzmonster
    03/17/09

    @jurisenpai: I LOVE IT!! I'm so using that from now on.
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    Image of LaMorena LaMorena
    03/17/09

    @jurisenpai: Haha, that's one of the better ones I've heard.


    If I'm trying to let a guy on to the situation, I say "out of commission."

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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    Nalebuff is a lady after our own hearts - not only does she talk in fascinating terms about ladyhood, but she's studying a patisserie at a culinary school. From the article:


    Now I'm working as an assistant to a pastry chef. I've been told that foods and periods don't mix-French women aren't supposed to make mayonnaise during their period.


    Why not? The eggs are like, right there!

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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    03/17/09

    @tscheese: Studying a patisserie. God. That's what I do. SHE'S STUDYING patisserie, not studying *A* singular pastry.
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    Image of Easybreezy Easybreezy
    03/17/09

    @tscheese: I study my crossaints every morning before I eat them.
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    Image of MissyMcCLung MissyMcCLung
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    She's fantastic. What an inspiration.
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    Image of AuntieBee AuntieBee
    03/17/09

    In reply to "Period Girl" Talks To The New Yorker
    from the interview: Afterward, a bulky sophomore football player high-fived me, saying, "That must have taken some balls!" A senior who overheard the conversation corrected him: "I think you mean tubes."


    Awesome. I will make an effort to say tubes instead of balls.

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    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    03/17/09

    @AuntieBee: I like 'ovaries of steel' to describe bravery (c.f. balls of steel).
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    Image of sybann sybann
    03/17/09

    @AuntieBee: I've been saying "ovaries of steel" for years.
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    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    03/17/09

    @sybann: I probably picked it up from you then! I know I got it from Jez.
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