50 Painfully-Relatable Posts From This Instagram Account That Tries To Sum Up What Women Struggle With
The life of a woman in today's world is hard to describe. Our society, at least for the most part, no longer promotes a single image of how one should look or behave.
The classic cocktail of femininity, modesty, discretion, virtue, and graciousness has become a relic of a bygone era, an out-of-place artifact in contemporary culture.
But there's an Instagram account that manages to sum it up quite well. At least 1.7 million people who follow it think so. It's called "Female's Problems" and just like the name suggests, it shares memes about the everyday struggles of a modern woman.
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Looking at these memes, it's clear that our society hasn't achieved gender equality quite yet. But that doesn't mean the situation is hopeless.
Chilean writer Isabel Allende, whose novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events and pay homage to the lives of women, thinks that we're certainly progressing.
"I have lived enough to see great changes in the situation of women," Allende told The New York Times in an interview. "Little by little, women are chipping away the patriarchy. The fact we have not been able to replace it yet doesn't mean we have failed; it means that the job is monumental. But it's not impossible."
"I believe it will happen, but not in my lifetime, and it will happen only if women are educated, informed, connected and active. It takes very little for us to lose the rights we have obtained. Best recent example: the Taliban. In a few days, women and girls lost all their rights in Afghanistan, and the most awful form of patriarchy took over the country. We have to be vigilant: Given the wrong circumstances, it can happen anywhere."
he is a keeper i will go to your house and pester you every waking moment unless you are already married to him
The way she literally said 'period havers' and not ladies or anything is adorable!♡
i dont think Valerie Lessards know that some females ARE period havers. It's just more inclusive. How is that a problem?
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My brother once complained via text to me (his sister suffering from endometriosis) that his girlfriend has periods and is "annoying and exhausting" then; he refuses to be with her in that time but she's welcome to come back when it's over. I turned to my husband and thanked him for not being an a**hole. My husband gets me painkillers, a hot-water bottle, makes me food, buys chocolate, cuddles me and even puts his hand on my stomach. THAT'S how it's done properly.
What did you do to school your worm of a brother?? Did he sleep during your awful bouts with endometriosis? My mom did a great job of teaching my little brothers how to treat their sister who had nightmare periods. A good flogging might remind him....
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My daughter's boyfriend always keeps a tampon in his jeans pocket when it's her time of the month because she has been known to forget.
Whether you bleed every month or not, surely the point is that the boyfriend was obviously brought up knowing what happens, and that he was as good as gold with the situation and it was no skin off his nose, maybe if we spoke about these things, then there would be less of a taboo about it?
My husband used to hand me a cat and make me some tea. There's more than one reason we're getting close to 40 years.
Iv had crazy episodes that got out of hand when on periods, including new car seat colour😭 my then boyfriend, now husband, got me a sub which is my comfort food, took me home, drew a hot bath for me, got mom to keep ready a pad, fresh clothes and hot tea. After dropping me off he cleaned up the car and didn't hesitate once. Nor did he make a face, we have been together 16 years now and he makes the miserable time of the month bearable.
My husband did that for me too. And he used to massage my belly because he though it made my cramps feel better. It didn't really, but he likes to feel useful.
This happened to me, during oral. My husband said- "it's ok, I always knew I was a vampire anyway".
My husband has never had an issue with my period. Me NOT having it has been a scare a few times, but not me having it. And my sons have grown up with being taught and my husband setting the example, they have no fear of periods or the products used to handle them (haven't had any girlfriends yet)
I love how you said period havers instead of women bc not all women and not only women have periods
I mean, yeah, this should just be normal..... Plus the guy can feel like he slayed a dragon when he pulls out
I've heard "sailed the red sea" but I'm going to start using slayed a dragon now 😂
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Hmmm... if only I was eighteen and liked men. If only I weren't asexual... JK JK, I'm fine with being ace. BF sounds awesome though!
well, i havw good news, you could (since u dont like men, as it seems, all good tho) could still have a romantic relationship! unless you are also aro, then oof.
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I'm a chick, and I personally wouldn't do all that even for myself.
Every time I find supportive men I am grateful they exist. Do not settle for anything less, indeed.
Yes he is caring mature enough to go to the store if you don't want him just call me LOL
Just a goofy thought... BF's heart stopped when in mid-movement, he saw blood and thought HE was the bleeder. Immediately praying to a higher power and desperately bargaining for his health.... Then BF realizes that it wasn't himself losing precious bodily fluids. The Higher Power kept their part of the bargain.... Now the GF has a slave for life. SWEET!! Any way you look at it.
NICE! What kind of insecure panty-waste can't buy a women hygiene products? You're basically telling everybody at the store you have a woman. What more do you want?
It's just blood. I do not get the ridiculous amount of nonsense about sex and periods. As long as both are in the mood, just get on with it. An orgasm releases endorphins that help dull the pain anyway. The chap above not only has a great attitude about this subject, but obviously isn't prone to being swayed by social messages around things either.
Lost count the amount of times I've had rag sex with my wife, ain't nothing to me.
I downvoted this post and than upvoted it so it would look like I gave it two upvotes
And then did you wake up because men like this are the stuff of dreams?
I GOT SOMEONE LIKE THIS I LOVE HIM SM
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Personally people who think like you should be erased.
Ate you mentally impaired? That would excuse your comment.
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Hi guys in the replies. Yes, you might be more disgusted with rape, but from what we ladies get to HEAR, i.e., what men say PUBLICLY, it's a lot of disgust about periods, and rarely men at the office water bottle saying "have you heard about Sarah Everard, rape is such a s**t thing, acutally, all sexism is".
We can even verify this quantitatively. Since 2006, the Global Gender Gap Index has been measuring the extent of gender-based gaps among four key dimensions: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. Tracking the progress towards closing these gaps over time, it reports benchmarks and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across and within regional peers. According to its 2020 findings, there is still a 31.4% average gender gap that remains to be closed globally.
Across the four characteristics, on average, the largest gender disparity lies within political empowerment. Despite being the most improved dimension that year, the gap on this subindex has only been closed by 25%, meaning there are still not enough women occupying seats in government across the world.
I sometimes wonder why we are so attracted to boobs. I mean, they look no better than any other part of a woman's body. Why aren't I turned on by elbows?
However, it's important to note that the political empowerment subindex fails to measure the legal rights of women and girls in comparison to those of men, which plays a significant role in determining the extent to which a society is equal.
"Although progress [has been] made in advancing women’s rights, it has been slow and inconsistent, and many sex-discriminatory laws remain entrenched,” Romina Canessa, a human rights lawyer at Equality Now, told Global Citizen. “When governments deny women and girls the same rights as men and boys, this legitimizes discrimination and abuse, and means they have no formal recourse if their rights are violated.”
The economic and labor market gender gap has been closed by 58%. This is due to the fact that, on average, only 55% of women are participating in the global workforce, and their presence in higher-yielding positions is even lower.
Plus, this disparity is exacerbated by the global wage gap, which affects women across all industries and backgrounds, and has remained relatively stagnant throughout the last five years or so. These components highlight the challenges women face to escape poverty and become financially and economically independent.
Genuinely curious as to why a Trigger warning is necessary on a period post...
At least 35 of the 153 surveyed countries have closed the education gender gap by 96.1%. However, this number varies across education levels.
Globally, girls are less likely to receive an education due to gender-based discrimination, child marriage, and the burden of fulfilling domestic chores, all of which prevent young girls and teens from attending school.
While more young girls and women are attending primary and secondary school, less than half are going on to attend college.
Embarrassed about nature? What is wrong with these people?
Although the global gender gap for health care and survival has been closed by 95.7%, millions of women worldwide still do not have equal access to health care, especially reproductive health care.
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, vice-president for development at the Brennan Center for Justice, thinks that period poverty and menstrual stigma play significant roles in holding society back from achieving gender equality, noting that these barriers can also hold them back from participating in politics, the workforce, and education.
“If menstruation inhibits anybody from any one of those things, it inhibits them from all four, which places it squarely in the heart of what it means to achieve full gender equality,” she explained. “If we don’t have policies in place to ensure a safe and open, and accurate discussion around menstruation, treatment of menstruation, in all of these ways, we are leaving off the table a considerable component.”
In order to achieve gender equality and make all of these pictures a thing of the past, countries across the globe must increase the number of women in government, ensure education is accessible to all women and girls, create free or affordable child care so that more women can participate in the labor market, and provide access to safe reproductive health care.
Been there recently. My ex showed me almost no affection like that unless I asked for it, and then she would make fun of me for asking for cuddles. My girlfriend does stuff like that without me asking and I legit have to hold back tears most of the time cos it makes me feel so loved. Good tears, for sure
I have yet, in 33 years of my life, find jeans that fit my height. Even when I lost weight I could not find a pair that fit. Not to mention the lack of pockets...
Looool, that is so god damn true and I wanna know why on earth we do that 😂😂
I'm not gay or lesbian, but as an artist I have always preferred drawing females and figure-hugging fashions because females. Some say it's a focus on sexualization. Absolute non. It's way more complex than that and difficult to describe.
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Ladies can we talk about the stitching in the crotch area of underwear? Do the makers of underwear not know female anatomy? It needs to be few inches higher but O, it's cuter that way for the boys to see.
I think PCOS should have been touched on. It’s estimated it effects 10% of women and the problems that go along with it are varied and ridiculous. Try bleeding for a year, OR going for a year with no periods but wackadoodle hormones.
I had to start on a very low dose of zoloft to help with the waxkadoodle hormones. Did help though! Went from feeling like Sybil to just the many faces of Eve.
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Not every period having women on earth feels that misserably. There are some that hardly have any disconfort at all. Sure I'm going downvoted to "sorry, your are suspended for commenting on bp" level, but still true.
I am a guy. I can't understand this way of thinking at all. The only problem with buying tampons is getting the right kind. There are so many products with similar names and my wife is so particular about what she wants. Not that I blame he one bit. Something like this you want to stick with what you know is going to work. But I just don't get why some guys get so grossed out. It's just blood.
Lets have a similar section on what men deal with. They have their own set of issues.
Yes, but nobody cares because bp made "women" a selling point on every post.
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I won't tell anyone to get over it, but seriously: never had a problem with my period. Neither any of my friends. I get that people wanna share the pain, but it's not the norm that you hurt this bad. It's inconvenient, sure, but even that got much better with my discovery of period cups
Being ever the optimist I would like to think D20 games post was badly worded.. dont let your body stop you from being the best you can be.. but also a little compassion for something you have acknowledged you dont understand would go a long way
"Women struggle with" as if men dont struggle when we have to deal with roughly the same
I honestly agree, all of this "women" b******t is just a selling point. Men have to deal with no emotional support barely any physical and everyone treating us like s**t. Glad to see people with the same opinion.
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I've had excruciating period pains for 20yrs, screaming on the floor, vomiting, can't stand or walk, have a fever, delerium, eyes roll back in my head and I struggle to stay conscious. You sound like every single doctor I went to over the past 2 decades, and even the women doctors admonished me "you're making it out to be worse than it is, every woman goes through it, stop complaining and suck it up, you're making us all look bad". 20 goddamn years of agony, finally I found a doctor who would listen, did a scan, lo and behold severe endometriosis where i'm probably already infertile, a massive cyst on my ovary, and nothing can be done without extremely invasive surgery, possibly a hysterectomy. If the doctors had listened years ago I could have gotten treatment, minor surgery to remove the beginning endometriosis, been pain free, saved my fertility so at least I had the choice to have children. Your attitude doesn't help women, you're just mocking your fellow sisters the way men do.
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Ladies can we talk about the stitching in the crotch area of underwear? Do the makers of underwear not know female anatomy? It needs to be few inches higher but O, it's cuter that way for the boys to see.
I think PCOS should have been touched on. It’s estimated it effects 10% of women and the problems that go along with it are varied and ridiculous. Try bleeding for a year, OR going for a year with no periods but wackadoodle hormones.
I had to start on a very low dose of zoloft to help with the waxkadoodle hormones. Did help though! Went from feeling like Sybil to just the many faces of Eve.
Load More Replies... Not every period having women on earth feels that misserably. There are some that hardly have any disconfort at all. Sure I'm going downvoted to "sorry, your are suspended for commenting on bp" level, but still true.
I am a guy. I can't understand this way of thinking at all. The only problem with buying tampons is getting the right kind. There are so many products with similar names and my wife is so particular about what she wants. Not that I blame he one bit. Something like this you want to stick with what you know is going to work. But I just don't get why some guys get so grossed out. It's just blood.
Lets have a similar section on what men deal with. They have their own set of issues.
Yes, but nobody cares because bp made "women" a selling point on every post.
Load More Replies... I won't tell anyone to get over it, but seriously: never had a problem with my period. Neither any of my friends. I get that people wanna share the pain, but it's not the norm that you hurt this bad. It's inconvenient, sure, but even that got much better with my discovery of period cups
Being ever the optimist I would like to think D20 games post was badly worded.. dont let your body stop you from being the best you can be.. but also a little compassion for something you have acknowledged you dont understand would go a long way
"Women struggle with" as if men dont struggle when we have to deal with roughly the same
I honestly agree, all of this "women" b******t is just a selling point. Men have to deal with no emotional support barely any physical and everyone treating us like s**t. Glad to see people with the same opinion.
Load More Replies... I've had excruciating period pains for 20yrs, screaming on the floor, vomiting, can't stand or walk, have a fever, delerium, eyes roll back in my head and I struggle to stay conscious. You sound like every single doctor I went to over the past 2 decades, and even the women doctors admonished me "you're making it out to be worse than it is, every woman goes through it, stop complaining and suck it up, you're making us all look bad". 20 goddamn years of agony, finally I found a doctor who would listen, did a scan, lo and behold severe endometriosis where i'm probably already infertile, a massive cyst on my ovary, and nothing can be done without extremely invasive surgery, possibly a hysterectomy. If the doctors had listened years ago I could have gotten treatment, minor surgery to remove the beginning endometriosis, been pain free, saved my fertility so at least I had the choice to have children. Your attitude doesn't help women, you're just mocking your fellow sisters the way men do.
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