Althouse: Menopause stories,

December 16, 2020

Menopause stories,

38 comments:

Lurker21 said...: Pretentious first name. Hyphenated last name. New York Times. Video. I'll pass.; 12/16/20, 6:42 AM
DavidUW said...: The only audience for the NYTImes. Hard pass.; 12/16/20, 6:45 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: Althouse has it as "Menopause stories," with a comma.

I think that means we all get to guess as to what the rest of the sentence was intended to be.

It probably depends on how often Trump is mentioned in the video.

I am Laslo.; 12/16/20, 6:53 AM
Dan from Madison said...: I made it about halfway through and it was all repetitive. Women go through it. So now what?; 12/16/20, 6:53 AM
rhhardin said...: If the mood swings finally end how come women don't take up chess and math then. There's still a stereotypical woman interest spectrum, the same reasoning vs feeling. It's just that the feelings stabilize somewhere girlish instead of swinging all over the girl spectrum.; 12/16/20, 7:13 AM
Marcus Bressler said...: Menopause Stories:
Complaining.
No sex.
Hot flashes.

-30-

THEOLDMAN

Never giving the NYTimes a click; 12/16/20, 7:16 AM
Greg Hlatky said...: The problems faced by TimesWomen are of no interest to sensible people.; 12/16/20, 7:23 AM
Howard said...: The conclusion is that the only advantage women have is they don't carry their junk flapping in the breeze.; 12/16/20, 7:41 AM
Darrell said...: Where are the trans stories? H8ers!; 12/16/20, 7:43 AM
Darrell said...: Some women have dicks.
--The NYT; 12/16/20, 7:45 AM
Gotagonow said...: Thanks for passing the video along. I'm a little smarter for it.; 12/16/20, 7:55 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: Menopause happens. It sucks for a brief while or a few years...which in the long scheme of things IS a brief while. Then it is over. Then life goes on...without Menstruation and all the grossness that goes with that body function. That is pretty damned nice. Look forward to it. PS. Sex after the "pause" can still be great.

Geeze ladies!!! Stop all the whining and caterwauling about things that are inevitable to all women everywhere and in every time on Earth. You are so tiresome. Suck it up. Do you think men don't have issues?

Note: Didn't watch because NYTimes. But I know it is full of whinging and whining because that is what they do.; 12/16/20, 7:55 AM
ellie said...: As a 50 year old woman, I appreciated this story.; 12/16/20, 7:57 AM
Rusty said...: Too little too late.; 12/16/20, 8:06 AM
Lucien said...: OK: you’re looking at two otherwise indistinguishable resumes, one from “Bronwen” and one from “Chamikwa” . .; 12/16/20, 8:07 AM
Cheryl said...: I appreciated it, too, like Ellie. This is right where I am now, and it is strange. In the last 18 months, so even pre-COVID, I felt at times that I was losing my mind. It was so strange, and it was a relief to find out this was completely symptomatic.

I can also identify with the "I've got shit to do" woman--that's how I feel now that I understand what is going on. It's a good land but a strange one at first.; 12/16/20, 8:09 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Althouse has it as "Menopause stories," with a comma."

It's a punctuation joke. Don't you get it?; 12/16/20, 8:19 AM
Kate said...: God, no wonder we don't talk about it. That was boring.

I am post-m. Like most women events, words won't describe. You have to live it.

We're trivialized by these kind of vids. The next thing you know some dress-wearing man thinks he's having a hot flash.; 12/16/20, 8:28 AM
Jessica said...: I appreciate you passing this on. I'm 39 and the brain fog is getting bad. (I also was told at 34 that my egg count was low... so I do wonder if I'm on the front end of the pause.); 12/16/20, 8:39 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: "It's a punctuation joke. Don't you get it?"

I feel ashamed that I missed that.

I am Laslo.; 12/16/20, 8:39 AM
DavidUW said...: Why menopause. You're not resuming. Next step is death.

Should be menostop.

meno-end?

menofin?

menohalt?; 12/16/20, 8:44 AM
nob490 said...: Laslo, me too.

That was a good one.; 12/16/20, 8:48 AM
Wince said...: Colectomy stories;

("Colectomy is a surgical procedure to remove all or part of your colon."); 12/16/20, 8:56 AM
Wince said...: After the divorce is final...

Santa Claus; Mrs. Claus.

(Get it?); 12/16/20, 9:07 AM
Joe Smith said...: So something that's been happening to women for tens of thousands of years, and they're JUST finding out about it in their 50s?

Is there a way to go back in time and retroactively cancel all of their past votes?

Nice Chevron ad at the beginning (why?)...at least there is red in the logo so there's a tie-in.; 12/16/20, 9:13 AM
Joe Smith said...: "It's a punctuation joke. Don't you get it?"

What did the middle age woman say when asked about coming out as a lesbian later in life?

"Men? Oh, pause!"; 12/16/20, 9:16 AM
Howard said...: DBQ: Not everyone can be a trooper like you.; 12/16/20, 10:15 AM
Freeman Hunt said...: I thought the video was good.; 12/16/20, 10:20 AM
tcrosse said...: Pretentious first name. Hyphenated last name.

"Bronwen" is a Welsh name, hardly pretentious. But she could lose her hyphen.; 12/16/20, 11:06 AM
Earnest Prole said...: Watching this video you might conclude menopause afflicts only the kind of arty-wannabe and ethnic-in-whitechick-guise women that are the target market of the New York Times.; 12/16/20, 11:49 AM
mikee said...: Lived through it once with the wife. Won't watch it again. Once was more than enough.; 12/16/20, 11:59 AM
GingerBeer said...: Nothing exists until it happens to Boomers.; 12/16/20, 12:02 PM
Sydney said...: No, thanks.; 12/16/20, 12:50 PM
ceowens said...: Did not watch the video. But men, do not dismiss this out of hand. My honey will be 71 soon and I have not touched an HVAC control in 20 years.; 12/16/20, 1:38 PM
Howard said...: Given that you ladies are saddled with your own evolutionary drive on top of menses, pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, raising, nesting, working then you get rewarded with menopause. I'll take the 5-years shorter life expectancy every time.

Who the huck cares if most of you avoid dangerous work (except childbirth) and some of you struggle with nonlinear partial differential calculus.

You are already doing plenty, thanks!; 12/16/20, 1:50 PM
KellyM said...: As others here noted, I didn't watch, because, NYT. Ugh.

Menopause comes in every flavor under the sun. There's no "usual". Like DBQ, I'm just as happy to see menses begin to taper off, although it does make for a challenge in charting so that you aren't faced with an "accident". In that way it's almost like being a teenager again.

As for brain fog, I attribute that more to merlot than menopause.; 12/16/20, 4:34 PM
Unknown said...: Dust Bunny Queen

The sad aspect of the NYT rumination is that menopause can be a very painful and disruptive transition for some women. Like everything in life it affects every woman differently. There are some interventions women can take to address the symptoms and it would be helpful if it were presented in a rational and practical manner.; 12/16/20, 4:42 PM
Readering said...: Not going to get many comments for this from the AA commenting community.; 12/17/20, 1:57 AM