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Mike Nelson here.
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this issue has been setting the inboxes of CBC journalists on fire, so i thought i'd ask the brain trust over at planet rhizzone. basically, women suffer from crippling pain for at least a week every month because uhh their vagina bleeds because the egg is sharp or something. look, i'm not a doctor, not even a doctor of psychology that insists people call them doctor, as if asking questionnaires to their college friends is as grueling as memorizing every type of body component and chemical and how it all interacts.

followup question: should trans women be allowed to take menstrual leave? i guess from a biological determinist framework they might not actually menstruate. but it's possible that they have phantom menstruation. plus if they were trying to pass and they didn't ever take their 10 days off a month for menstrual leave people might think something was up.

i guess the male equivalent is the need to ejaculate once a week or so to avoid some sort of catastrophic build-up of shame slime. maybe men could get a special break once a week for seven minutes to clear the pipes. in large workplaces, like foxconn or buzzfeed, there could be little booths where people could jack off while thinking about new products or friction alone or whatever.

anyway the person with the most persuasive argument in this thread will be printed in the may issue of the new republic.
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getfiscal posted:

this issue has been setting the inboxes of CBC journalists on fire, so i thought i'd ask the brain trust over at planet rhizzone. basically, women suffer from crippling pain for at least a week every month because uhh their vagina bleeds because the egg is sharp or something. look, i'm not a doctor, not even a doctor of psychology that insists people call them doctor, as if asking questionnaires to their college friends is as grueling as memorizing every type of body component and chemical and how it all interacts.

followup question: should trans women be allowed to take menstrual leave? i guess from a biological determinist framework they might not actually menstruate. but it's possible that they have phantom menstruation. plus if they were trying to pass and they didn't ever take their 10 days off a month for menstrual leave people might think something was up.

i guess the male equivalent is the need to ejaculate once a week or so to avoid some sort of catastrophic build-up of shame slime. maybe men could get a special break once a week for seven minutes to clear the pipes. in large workplaces, like foxconn or buzzfeed, there could be little booths where people could jack off while thinking about new products or friction alone or whatever.

anyway the person with the most persuasive argument in this thread will be printed in the may issue of the new republic.



hmmm...... such a question cannot be answered within the scope of a capitalist economy

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Hell, I'd pay to not have to deal with them! But seriously, they should be required to work a normal amount while having their pay docked for theur reduced efficiency, due to emotions
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they should man up and work through it, just as i work through my crippling depression 30 days a month
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i had a sprained ankle a few days ago and i thought about calling out sick but then i was like nah, capital needs me to deliver these pizzas
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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what about women who don't menstruate for whatever reason? i mean, why dont we as a society kill every one of them?
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i hate work so much yall.
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stegosaurus posted:

i hate work so much yall.



I hear that brother!!!

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but the lack of empathy and violent decisiveness that come with being in crippling pain are invaluable to our business leaders
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already compensated in the form of free natural craft supplies
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political car tune
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#bloodjar is my favorite ironic nu-metal band
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the pomegranate is associated with the descent of persephone into the underworld, which is triggering to me because the existence of death is Extremely Problematic
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aerdil posted:

i had a sprained ankle a few days ago and i thought about calling out sick but then i was like nah, capital needs me to deliver these pizzas


http://www.theonion.com/articles/cool-guy-from-middle-school-still-sporting-phat-pa,34730/

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Dont Mess With Sucess
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1. anybody should be able to get paid leave from work at any time for any reason
2. any woman who menstruates is not working out enough
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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MEN should get paid menstrual leave once all their female coworkers cycles line up, as meaningful physical labor and female-only workspaces are very nurturing to the ovaries
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shriekingviolet posted:

already compensated in the form of free natural craft supplies
http://i.ur.com/aeMdKEh.png



wait a minute....a year and a half?? ive bled more than that at work an ive only been there for a month and a half

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female energy fucking pwns....
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eats, shoots, and menstrual leaves
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Eats, Shoots, and Menstrual Leaves: The Importance of Commas and Periods in Post-Feminist American Discourse
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The answer is that the women get nothing. Neither one jot nor tittle.
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I want to live in a world where females automatically get pregnant every 7 days, and the only way to terminate the pregnancy would be to insert a penis into the vagina in a sort of, abortion as contraception paradox.
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swirlsofhistory posted:

I want to live in a world where females automatically get pregnant every 7 days, and the only way to terminate the pregnancy would be to insert a penis into the vagina in a sort of, abortion as contraception paradox.

Seek psychiatric care.

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goondolences
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Mike Nelson here.
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I have six or seven marble sized cysts on my ovaries and when one bursts I literally go into shock so yes we should be given free heroin (also to deal with pain of being a not-quite-person and alive) and menstrual leave

maybe post about it in the goon doctor, or, failing that, the crackhead clubhouse

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political car tune
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im sure the decent posters of tcc will, in the spirit of harm reduction, recommend you all manner of affordable Chinese amphetamines with questionable routes through American customs
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discipline posted:

I have six or seven marble sized cysts on my ovaries and when one bursts I literally go into shock so yes we should be given free heroin (also to deal with pain of being a not-quite-person and alive) and menstrual leave


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c_man posted:

discipline posted:

I have six or seven marble sized cysts on my ovaries and when one bursts I literally go into shock so yes we should be given free heroin (also to deal with pain of being a not-quite-person and alive) and menstrual leave

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that opiate thread is a really great example of solidarity in difficult circumstances that are entirely of your own creation. oh what's that, you saying I'm being too atomistic in my analysis of mental illness w/r/t drug abuse? guys seriously, read that thread and tell me it doesn't give you a rush (lol) that people are largely only empathetic to circumstances that are literally the same things they went through and that's where the horizon terminates. only the rc thread is better in the sense that you get the guys who ate half of a dust particle more than they should have and convinced themselves that personal revelation is the ultimate marker of understanding because the trees were wavy at the tennis courts they broke into or w/e
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today in Cracked they have a dude whining about louis ck's joke about how he thinks vaginas are pretty and there should be a butterfly fluttering around them. and strangely because he thinks it is patronizing, not because most vaginas are hella gross

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discipline posted:

we should be given free heroin



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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

vaginas are hella gross

im goatstein, i think vaginas are hella gross and im obsessed with trans people

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not all of them, just most.
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hello my genitals are filled with large painful pus-filled nodules that can burst and cause sepsis. this is a very common problem. not gross
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Mike Nelson here.
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yeah i try to stay away from vaginas too. which is getting easier by the year.
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well yea we all obviously know vaginas are gross, that wasnt my point
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

today in Cracked they have a dude whining about louis ck's joke about how he thinks vaginas are pretty and there should be a butterfly fluttering around them. and strangely because he thinks it is patronizing, not because most vaginas are hella gross


5 Reasons Louis C.K. Is A Vagina-Idolizing Monster