"The joys of being a woman :) "

[shinyredapple]

I know it can be, it was bad for me the first five years. I am lucky I am in the situation that I can live with it now. I often think it would be better to put what women really look like on the boxes of pads instead of the hippie girl holding flowers, you know, bloated, messy hair, shoving junk food in her mouth, PMS all over the place. Mabye then the government would give us a break and make products tax-free.

[misq17]

When I was 14, the most mortifying thing happend.
I was in a restaurant with some friends (well it was at disney land) and we were generally messing around and I was wearing a relatively low cut top. Then, my wonderful friend who I madly fancied started crunching icecubes..only he started to choke and spat one out and it shot into my top and basically got wedged there.
ok, maybe not that funny...but it still gives me the giggles to think of me sitting surrounded by sweet innocent kids while I had an icecube wedged in my cleavage.

:p Actually, I was sitting at lunch the other day and all the sudden one of my friends got this really weird expression on her face and I asked her what was wrong. Apparently, someone had thrown a tab off the top off of a soda can and it had gone down her bra. Actually, me and my friends, both the male and female ones often throw things at each other, aiming for down eachothers shirts (wow, that sounds sick when you write it :p ). I'm pretty comfortable with talking about most any "girly" subject with my guy and girl friends, just not adults

[Bizy]

This isn't really a girl thing, but it's funny and I'm a girl...so HEY! Here goes...
This one day me and my friends were bored, so they dared me to go buy a box of condoms. Since I don't really get embarassed easily I did it and I told the cashier that if they didn't work I was going to bring them back! I used to be such a dork! :yes:

[Chrysalis]

This isn't really a girl thing, but it's funny and I'm a girl...so HEY! Here goes...
This one day me and my friends were bored, so they dared me to go buy a box of condoms. Since I don't really get embarassed easily I did it and I told the cashier that if they didn't work I was going to bring them back! I used to be such a dork! :yes:

LOL!!! :D Ahhh that reminds me of my highschool friends, we used to do such stupid things too. Me and my one friend used to stand in the women's underwear section in Zellers (it is right by the aisle) and stand there staring at people walking by to creep them out...especially if they were guys.

[Stephanie]

Two words for ya: self checkout!



lol. True!

[Stephanie]

I know it can be, it was bad for me the first five years. I am lucky I am in the situation that I can live with it now. I often think it would be better to put what women really look like on the boxes of pads instead of the hippie girl holding flowers, you know, bloated, messy hair, shoving junk food in her mouth, PMS all over the place. Mabye then the government would give us a break and make products tax-free.


lmao. So true!!

[Bizy]

Originally Posted by Starblossom
LOL!!! Ahhh that reminds me of my highschool friends, we used to do such stupid things too.

You would not believe some of the things that my boyfriend and his family do. They order pizza and my boyfriend will answer, but his brother will come to the door all demented acting and my boyfriend is like, " Get back in you cage!"....He always does something interesting to telemarketers...They are just a demented sort...They aren't even in highschool!

[lollypop]

i started my period in maths class i was feeling ill so one of the teaching assistance took me to the toilet, i was 12 and at an all girls catholic school ran by nuns so we NEVER spoke about the period thing i was bewildered to see blood on the tissue, not on my panties but on the tissue i thought i must have cut my self so i went out side and told the teachy lady that when i wipped there was blood and i was feeling sick by now any way she told me not to worry it was just a period and gave me aHUGE pad without wings it was horrible.


if you think it couldnt get worse i then walk pass the class room later that day and hear her talking to the math teacher saying it was horrible i had told her id wiped and i went into great detail blah blah blah blah blha i was so upset i never looked her in the eye again. :(

one of my not so joyuce moments

[Miss Meg]

I know it can be, it was bad for me the first five years. I am lucky I am in the situation that I can live with it now. I often think it would be better to put what women really look like on the boxes of pads instead of the hippie girl holding flowers, you know, bloated, messy hair, shoving junk food in her mouth, PMS all over the place. Mabye then the government would give us a break and make products tax-free.

hahaha that would be awsome :lol:

[Blue Plastic Straw]

Wow, is that why they are locked up? I was just saying to my mother the other day while we were in the grocery store that I thought that putting condoms in a locked case could be very discouraging to say, a young teenager buying them for the first time or something. I mean, if I was really shy about it I don't think I'd want to go and ask the cashier. Think about how many kids would see that and be too embarrassed to buy them. That's no good. :(

My friends in high school who were sexually active never bought condoms. They just went into the local health clinic or Planned Parenthood and grabbed a handful from the giant bowl of condoms that both places had. Of course, a lot of those ended up taped to my car. Which I suppose can qualify as one of my more embarassing moments, though it's not specifically female related. In retrospect it was pretty funny, but at the time I was mortified. I was so pure and virginal and ever so Catholic, they had great fun at my expense. :rolleyes:

[rincaro]

Oh my goodness Jess, I so remember that. We would be waiting in line to get out of the high school parking lot and some guy would get out of his car, run up to ours and slap a few condoms on the windshield. Ewww!

[Skylark]

Oh wow...when I first got my period, I was sooo embarassed about it. I wouldn't even tell my mom. She figured it out when she emptied the bathroom trash.

I recommend "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant. In the women's culture in the book, they celebrated their periods, pregnancy, and all things related to it. They took a week off work every month to relax during their periods. Ahhh for the days of 1500 B.C. ....

[LadyFaile]

when i was like 13 i once walked around all day at school not knowing that my pad leaked while i was sitting in class and i had a big patch of blood on the back of my jeans. went home on the bus like that and everything, noticed after i got home. i was more mad that none of my friends or teachers had the b***s to tell me than i was embarassed.

also once in college i had an oops. on my way home from work after dark, it was a 15+ minute walk from the bus stop to my apartment, and i felt like i was going to start my period (yes i can tell before it starts) but decided to stop and pick up some take-out anyways. this place was take-out only and the only place open and had no bathroom. and i didn't have pads on me anyways. i ended up having to wait like 15 minutes for my food, somewhere in between it started. by the time i got home it was literally running down my legs and not a damn thing i could do. luckily i was wearing black pants and it was very dark out so nobody knew but me (til now!)


all that being said, i don't think we should be embarassed about our bodily functions, but they sure contribute to some embarassing moments lol

[Jessica]

I remember my two most embarrassing occasions.

When I was about 20, my boyfriend and I needed some condoms one night and I got roped into going out to buy them. The only shop open was a little Asian corner shop. I was too embarrassed to use the word 'condom' so asked for it by the brand name Durex. The old chappie spoke little English and was obviously confused - he gave me a packet of Duracell batteries. I was too mortified to explain, and bought the batteries!

Another time I was at a rather posh do and was wearing a very slinky white dress. Unfortunately I sat on the edge of a table and ended up with a patch of red wine on my bum. Of course, my friends and I knew what it was, but I was cringing with embarrassment for the rest of the evening.

[Rebel Girl]

i dont use pads or tampons, i use those instead soft cupy thingys. one fell out of my little make up bag thingy, and so, being as crazy as i am,i just picked it right up, but a girl noticed me.
"IS THAT A CONDOM?!?!" and i explained to her, and pretty soon i had every girl in the classroom around me (we had 20 minutes left after the finals) inspecting my soft cup. some girls who didnt like me "oh thats a diagapram (sp), its birth control" but i kindly explained and they were like "YOU STICK YOUR FINGER UP YOUR POON?!?" and i explained again. all the boys were huddled in one corner (including the sci teacher) and were pointing and whispering until the teacher came over and finally asked what we were doing. the girl who first started talking to me, Carl (dont ask..long story..real name is Christina) said "we are talking about sticking cups up your vagina."

and i just could have hugged her, she was soo funny.

i love being a girl.

[tearhsong2]

I remember being so embarrassed about it when I first got my period. My mom had died about a year and a half before and I had to tell my dad about this?! I wanted to die, I was so embarrassed. Luckily, the sweet lady (who has become like another mom to me) who babysat us kids at the time took the time to explain everything to me and she talked to my dad about it. For the longest time, I hated to ask my dad to buy me pads when I ran out. He took it pretty well, but it must have been odd for him to go pick up some feminine hygiene when he went to the store. Poor guy. Whenever I would go with him to get it, I'd hate to walk down there in case someone I knew in the store would see me with a package of maxi pads.

I was only ten when I first had my period. So being in elementary school, it was awful. I remember a few times when I would have to use the bathroom to change my pad, being too embarrassed to leave the bathroom (for some reason, the individual stalls didn't have their own napkin disposal bins). I would wait until everyone in the bathroom was gone to go and throw my bloody pad away. There had been times when I wouldn't wait and was teased horribly by some of the other girls in my class. Ugh.

[ImarriedET]

When I was about 14 I went to visit my aunt. She lived in a Apt. Complex that had a pool. So one day I was down at the pool and went for a swim.
When I came out of the water the lifegaurd (extremely cute) pointed at my chest. I looked down and my bathing suit had moved over and one of my boobs was hanging out...

I still cringe when I think about it!!

[Artichoke47]

He shouldn't have pointed at it!

[Christy]

The same thing happened to me when I was 13 or 14 with some friends and their older brother. And he was always snapping the back of my bathing suit top, which hurt because of the huge plastic hook.

[ImarriedET]

Silly Boobs- and I don't mean ours I mean the two stupid guys that brought ours to our attention so to speak!!!

[LadyFaile]

lol
Rebel Girl's post reminds me grade 12 geography class. there was 3 of us that were good friends all in the same class, all girls. it was a stupid boring pointless class (teacher sucked and the content was rediculously easy) so we'd sit there chattering the whole time. well at one point it just sort of developed into girltalk, and geography became sex ed. we'd all sit and share our experiences, tips and info etc. about female stuff and about sex, and all the guys that sat near us would just stare and listen in total shock and we'd just giggle and be more graphic lol.
now and then we'd have to do group work in teams of 4 though so this one guy that we sometimes hung out with would join us and we'd still have our girltalk. funnier is he'd join in and ask all kinds of questions.
the teacher never had a clue :o

[Tropikiwi]

Heehee
Reminds me how in biology we used to read magazines like cleo and cosmo. the teacher just said well I guess this is the right class for it.

[chiaraluna]

I flew to Wales a few years ago and had the tremendous misfortune of starting my period at the beginning of the flight... I noticed after 7 hours or something and got to spend the rest of the day trying not to let my group members see that I had a huge bloodstain on the back of my pants. :p

[SuicideBlonde]

I remember when I was 13 a few months after I had gotten my first period my sister had her youngest baby. I was sitting there holding my beautiful niece and bleeding. At that moment I realized that because of the curse that was given to me I could give life. I felt amazing and wonderful because I was a woman.

[DuckThatWasn't]

I remember when I was 13 a few months after I had gotten my first period my sister had her youngest baby. I was sitting there holding my beautiful niece and bleeding. At that moment I realized that because of the curse that was given to me I could give life. I felt amazing and wonderful because I was a woman.

I don't want children, but I can see what you mean. (I really like kids, but there are many reasons it wouldn't be a good idea for me to have my own!) Anyway, that's the right attitude. Sure, periods may be inconvenient as hell, but the ability to give birth is pretty amazing. Motherhood is truly noble, and simply being female can be very empowering if you look at it in the right way.