I think that our thoughts and opinions ultimately have no value other than that which we assign to them. Attempting to look at the world from an objective point of view means that nothing means anything.

The only framework which we are capable of viewing the world and assigning it meaning from is our own, and that, IMO, is ultimately meaningless unless we admit that we view ourselves as the center of the known universe. Which is the only option, as we are physically incapable of viewing thoughts from any other framework. I hate how we HAVE to categorize every tidbit of knowledge. I hate how we are incapable of viewing things without assigning 'meaning' which could be misleading. I hate how we can't leave the unknown the unknown until we gather more information about it. We always draw assumptions, and if we have no factual basis for them, we make things up according to what we already know. We never just 'let it be'.

I honestly wish I could stop being human, just to see things from a point of view which is ACTUALLY different. My imagination is only what my brain is physiologically capable of.

When I try to be objective, actually objective, I stop caring about anything or anyone. So maybe it's just as well that I can never actually do that with more than just imagination.

Is that how a sociopath feels?

I want to sign on to that, and add that the last sentence is exactly true, no question. You know that godawful "menstrual art" junk? I've never met a single person who likes that stuff who wasn't a loud, bitchy, obnoxious, sucky-style feminist, riot grrl harpy. Half the time they openly admit that they're doing it just to bother people, because they think that bothering people is an effective form of activism for whatever half-ass fruitloop cause they're fighting for.

Hee. My mum-in-law has a crush on Tony Blair. Well, she did until he became BFFs with G-dub. She claimed that she was disappointed in his politics, but I think she was just JEALOUS! Fur realz.

Actually... to all Americans?  If you're born here you're a fucking American.  Fuck your home culture or trying to claim "I'm 1/16th Irish!" and have it mean anything more than you're a fucking tool.

You're an American.  You're a fucking mutt.  Stop trying to be "interesting" by claiming your ethnic heritage.

Just because a person is American doesn't mean they are a mutt. I take pride in being German because it's what I am.

No, I mean not everyone here is 1/16 this or that. Even if I am born here, I've still got 100% German blood, which I think gives me some right to be proud of it.

It's unenlightened if a guy finds menstruation unclean beyond mere grossness. We're talking, like, ritually unclean. 'Don't touch me or come too close, you have period cooties' unclean. 'Oh my god, I am physically ill when I contemplate the fact of menstruation' unclean. 'I raise my hands, squeal like a piglet being castrated, and twitch a lot if you even mention the fact you are menstruating' unclean.

Actually, a good deal of women I've met don't even want to be near a guy if he came from taking a dump. It's half the reason I put that in there. Don't even talk about him touching them, he's dirtied himself up and will infect her. Hell, people who smell, most other people don't want them to touch them. We say every bodily function that gives off odor or is done in supposed privacy is nasty or gross (Hell, you're not even supposed to tell people you're going to excrete waste unless it's pee until you really get to know them), so why should the act of menstruation be any different?

Oh yes. I have known these reactions. It's insulting. My body does this naturally; how dare you imply that I am a dirty, filthy, unclean thing for it? Everybody poops but we don't act like someone pooping is an irrational, moodswinging, violent, dirty, disgusting creature.

I never asked a woman if he was on her period due to her mood. Possibly because I never dealt with a woman I found to be particular over the top and cranky and whatever. I can count on my hand the amount of women who's mood swings completely perplexed me.

But I'm sorry... look to your female compatriots about that mood swing, violent thing. I don't get the dirty thing, so I can't comment on that, but we can just go through the archives of this forum to see women talking about mood swings and being grumpy from menstruation. After hearing women blaming their actions on pms and the like.. connections will be made.

Emotions and personal issues aside, Men are clueless about menstruation. There is not one single act in our lives that even comes close to it... so those ideas had to come from somewhere. Even if a guy is using the "Oh, she must be on her period" bit as a brainless tit or a clueless but harmless moron... it didn't appear out of the thin air.