Is this really necessary?

[hel_ana]

::blink::

PMS Alert 1.0

Easily synchronize PMS Alert with her natural monthly cycle. Read a simple scale of five colors to get the likelihood of mood swings. Get a real-time estimation of fertility. Pick a date off the calendar to get a quick forecast of what's to come. Store custom notes to go along with each day in the cycle. Get reminders when conditions are changing. Even get reminders of her next birthday and anniversary. PMS Alert runs hidden in the system tray, but can be expanded to a control panel offering more options. Ladies love PMS Alert because it helps foster a better understanding of what they are going through. He will be much better equipped to help, because you can store notes that go along with each day in the cycle. Absolutely no ads or nagging e-mail, ever.

buh?

Comments

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

Geeks make toys for themselves.

I suppose if it makes guys who are remarkably bad at paying attention aware that it's not just "Wow, you're a bitch today, honey", then...

Feh - geek toy.

[hel_ana]

See, but I get bitchy. I don't PMS.

If I'm bitchy, it's more likely that I'm tired than that my cycle is affecting me.

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

Fair - some of us do. It took woodardp a few years to figure out what was going on.

Then again, this is the same man who developed a palm app so we could figure out when I might be fertile.

[hel_ana]

I knew there was a reason I loved him.

Yeah, I understand PMS is a real thing and lots of women have to deal with it. But it's not every woman. Ross and I were in a coffeeshop last week, and some guy was on a cell phone behind us changing plans with a girl.

We both winced when he said "Why are you being such a bitch? You're just completely PMSing right now"

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

We both winced when he said "Why are you being such a bitch? You're just completely PMSing right now"

Ah, a regular ladies man.

I will admit to some hormonal swings around that time of the month, but if any man ever tried to invalidate my emotions like that, I'd probably stab him with a fork. Repeatedly.

Fortunately, Sam is too wise to do that.

[hel_ana]

So there is a time when stabbing is preferable to blunt force trauma?

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

:P Well, no. Not exactly.

But it does make an insanity defense easier, "Your Honor, if I'd intended to hurt him, I would've used the meat tenderizer, but I wasn't thinking clearly so I just grabbed the knife"

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

That's not having a clue, nor is it just being too clueless to recognize. That's just being a jerk.

[hel_ana]

true, I won't argue about that.

However, the attitude behind his just being a jerk was basically the same as that behind this tool... if a woman's "bitchy"*, it's because she's PMSing.

*Apparently too often defined as "not doing what I want her to do in the way I want her to do it"

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

Respectfully, I disagree. P could have used this tool. As I said, it took him several years of living with me to understand that the mood changes (swing is such a mild word for some of it) were pretty predictable and there was a reason for it. He just thought I periodically became a raving bitch for no reason.

And trust me, me on PMS does in fact equal raving bitch queen. I spend most of my time wanting the rest of the planet to get the hell out of my way, if I'm not actively planning on helping them.

[hel_ana]

I think we're talking about two different things here.

The fact that the tool can actually be useful to some men to become more enlightened is not mutually exclusive with the fact that there is a societal assumption "all women become raving bitches once a month and if a woman is a raving bitch, it's because she's PMSing" that I suspect is behind the tool.

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

I recognise they're not mutually exclusive. I would also hate to assume I knew what the maker of the tool had in mind.

I guess I am enough of a raving bitch even when I'm not PMS-ing that I rarely run into the problem you're describing. And have been known to verbally flay alive anyone who was foolish enough to voice such an opinion out loud.

[hel_ana]

Whereas I'm quite cheerfully assuming what's behind the tool. ;)

I'm generally not ever enough of a raving bitch to be accused of it, so I don't generally get people calling me out on PMSing. However, I've seen it happen and it makes me annoyed.

[critus.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Yes it is.

[singingwolf.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*snort*
*chuckle*
*wheeeeeee*

OK, now that that's out of my system...

Carl knows that the first night I toss and turn all night because my lower back is killing me to be prepaired to walk on eggshells around me for a day or two. Oh, and to also get a little bit of chocolate into the house... and as a warning that there will be spinach with dinner the next few nights...

I think he learned this within 2-3 months of us living together? Pure self preservation...

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

Spinach? SPINACH????

Is that some sort of weird hormonal craving, or merely a desire to share your suffering with others?

[singingwolf.livejournal.com]

Nah...

Just the fact that under normal circumstances I'm borderline anemic... and iron pills make me super nausiated.

Could be worse, I only get the craving for chicken livers once in a blue moon...

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Know what you mean about the iron pills. I'm anemic myself, and a vegetarian, so they're a fact of life for me. But I've never been able to find any that don't make me violently ill, so I avoid them as much as possible. But when Sam starts threatening to put iron filings in my breakfast cereal, I know it's time to bite the bullet and take 'em.

[hel_ana]

I love spinich.

I'll have to remember that you don't (I make a mean spinich quiche)

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

I'll have to remember that you don't (I make a mean spinich quiche)

Is that a threat? 'Cause it sure sounds like a threat.

[hel_ana]

Nope. Not at all. Spinich quiche is my default "dish to make for non-meat eating friends". So now I've made a mental note that the default won't work for you and Sam, once I actually have you over for dinner.

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. Now you've pegged me as not only a weirdo, but a difficult weirdo.

I can see I'm never gonna wrangle a dinner invite.

[hel_ana]

It's a hard life, but someone's got to live it.

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

And here I was feeling sorry for you for missing out on all that IKEA-y goodness.

Well, no more MS. Nice Guy.

[hel_ana]

Does this mean I can expect the parrot to come over *here* to manace me?

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

Probably not, she's far too busy for that. She may send a couple of her pigeon friends to poop on your car, though.

[nights-promise.livejournal.com]

I am so copying this to my journal!!