Disyembre 16, 2020

Menopause stories,

38 komento:

Lurker21 ayon kay ...

Pretentious first name. Hyphenated last name. New York Times. Video. I'll pass.

DavidUW ayon kay ...

The only audience for the NYTImes. Hard pass.

Laslo Spatula ayon kay ...

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.

Dan from Madison ayon kay ...

I made it about halfway through and it was all repetitive. Women go through it. So now what?

rhhardin ayon kay ...

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.

Marcus Bressler ayon kay ...

Menopause Stories:
Complaining.
No sex.
Hot flashes.

-30-

THEOLDMAN

Never giving the NYTimes a click

Greg Hlatky ayon kay ...

The problems faced by TimesWomen are of no interest to sensible people.

Howard ayon kay ...

The conclusion is that the only advantage women have is they don't carry their junk flapping in the breeze.

Darrell ayon kay ...

Where are the trans stories? H8ers!

Darrell ayon kay ...

Some women have dicks.
--The NYT

Gotagonow ayon kay ...

Thanks for passing the video along. I'm a little smarter for it.

Dust Bunny Queen ayon kay ...

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.

ellie ayon kay ...

As a 50 year old woman, I appreciated this story.

Rusty ayon kay ...

Too little too late.

Lucien ayon kay ...

OK: you’re looking at two otherwise indistinguishable resumes, one from “Bronwen” and one from “Chamikwa” . .

Cheryl ayon kay ...

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.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

"Althouse has it as "Menopause stories," with a comma."

It's a punctuation joke. Don't you get it?

Kate ayon kay ...

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.

Jessica ayon kay ...

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.)

Laslo Spatula ayon kay ...

"It's a punctuation joke. Don't you get it?"

I feel ashamed that I missed that.

I am Laslo.

DavidUW ayon kay ...

Why menopause. You're not resuming. Next step is death.

Should be menostop.

meno-end?

menofin?

menohalt?


nob490 ayon kay ...

Laslo, me too.

That was a good one.

Wince ayon kay ...

Colectomy stories;

("Colectomy is a surgical procedure to remove all or part of your colon.")

Wince ayon kay ...

After the divorce is final...

Santa Claus; Mrs. Claus.

(Get it?)

Joe Smith ayon kay ...

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.

Joe Smith ayon kay ...

"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!"

Howard ayon kay ...

DBQ: Not everyone can be a trooper like you.

Freeman Hunt ayon kay ...

I thought the video was good.

tcrosse ayon kay ...

Pretentious first name. Hyphenated last name.

"Bronwen" is a Welsh name, hardly pretentious. But she could lose her hyphen.

Earnest Prole ayon kay ...

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.

mikee ayon kay ...

Lived through it once with the wife. Won't watch it again. Once was more than enough.

GingerBeer ayon kay ...

Nothing exists until it happens to Boomers.

Sydney ayon kay ...

No, thanks.

ceowens ayon kay ...

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.

Howard ayon kay ...

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!

KellyM ayon kay ...

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.

Unknown ayon kay ...


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.

Readering ayon kay ...

Not going to get many comments for this from the AA commenting community.

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