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Women Are Sharing The Most Obscene Things They’ve Done While ‘Under The Influence Of Hormones’
“Sandra is really moody today; she must be on her rags.” These kind of comments are still really common, and not very helpful. The stereotypes about a woman being guided solely by her raging hormones - unable to regulate her own behavior and a bit 'crazy' at certain times of the month - have long been used as an excuse to denigrate women in general and are scientifically well off the mark.
However, hormone balances do play a role in our behavior. According to a Guardian interview with evolutionary scientist Martie Haselton, “Our hormones don’t make us crazy, they don’t make us irrational. They nudge us.” That nudge can lead to some pretty unreasonable ideas, as many women themselves are quite happy to admit!
Twitter user "Twinks" decided to share her story recently and asked others to do the same. “What completely irrational things you have done while being under the influence of hormones?” The responses are both painfully relatable and rather funny.
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Hormonal by Martie Haselton is an in-depth book about women’s hormones and their effects. Continuing with her interview in the Guardian, she says that everybody is hormonal, and it all comes down to one primary urge. "It makes perfect sense that our biology is designed this way," she says.
"Hormones are signals generated by our brains and glands associated with reproduction in our bodies. The bottom line of evolution is reproduction. We may choose not to reproduce now, and we may have control over that now, but there were millennia where that was the dictating force behind the design of our brains and bodies."
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When asked about the previous ignorance about the impact of hormones on women, Martie said the controlled scientific standards were partly to blame.
"One reason is that scientists were content for many decades with studying the male as the default sex, and that was in part because women had cycles that made them messy," she explained. "If you are doing a scientific experiment, you don’t want noise, you don’t want variation, you want everything to be strictly controlled.
Some examples of hormones acting up include the odours of attraction when a woman is ovulating. “Samples of tampons collected near ovulation were rated as more attractive then samples collected during any other point in the cycle,” Haselton writes, noting that many animals emit attractive odours to beckon mates when fertile.
Haselton also debunks the myth about menstrual cycles 'synching' when women live together. "The reason that it’s so easy to think that menstrual synchrony exists in humans is because “normal” cycles among a group of women can easily overlap – and appear to converge,” she explains.
Check out Haselton's book for more fascinating information about this important, but misunderstood topic, and enjoy the rest of the stories!
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Bored Fox 6 years ago
Once I and the bus driver spent couple of minutes wondering why my bus travel card did not work. Then I realized that it was a bonus card for one shop. It was exactly same color as the bus travel card so the bus driver also failed to see what was problem with the card. :D
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Luis Milian 6 years ago
with my cats you need to have tough skin...they can give one mean looks
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MeggersTheFox 6 years ago
Being vegetarian is difficult normally, never mind with raging hormones. Girl, if you want chicken, you deserve it!
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TheKnightOwl 6 years ago
MIL's can be difficult, but I'm not sure assault is the answer. Being hormonal doesn't excuse behaviour like that.
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Ale_Vidal23 6 years ago
my gf hit me the last morning after she had a bad dream about me cheating. what a nice wake up
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Susan Gardner 6 years ago
I would cry for the dog, but really NO DOGS deserve to be called ugly :(
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Blue Cicada 6 years ago
I only washed the dirty clothes that were in the hamper. It took several weeks, but my new husband finally learned that I was not going to pick up his dirty clothes from the bathroom, the bedroom, and the living room floor. I was also not going to go searching all over the house, underneath bed, chair, and couch, looking for his discarded socks.
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Shadow Hexus 6 years ago
I did the same but threw them over next doors fence. My partner at the time had to go ask realy nicely to the neighbour to ask for them back. XD
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Madzdad the bard 6 years ago
I just wanted their little vacuum cleaner friend that cleaned up everything.
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SacredPistachio 6 years ago
I feel like i'd do that anyway... i love my dog and would want to comfort them.
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Lisa Oberling 6 years ago
Okay, mines not funny but it made me realize how powerful hormones can be. After I had my first child I couldn't get ahold of my parents. I was sure that something horrible had happened to them. I called the police and made my husband drive to their house. I was so scared. They were fine just having phone issues. I've never panicked like that before or after that. Also I had a halucinattion of a Whataburger cup floating in my room.
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Abhinav Singh Panwar 6 years ago
See, that’s the problem. People assume that the other half is the husband and everybody starts to label him abusive and controlling while literally every other story sounds similar or even worse but people are okay and are even applauding their actions. Double standards?
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Blue Cicada 6 years ago
You are blessed that he understood it was the chemicals affecting you, not your true personality.
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Beau Haven 6 years ago
"Chucked an absolute screaming wobbler" is now and forevermore my new favorite description of a tantrum.
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Catlady6000 6 years ago
I remember doing things like this with my ex when I was on birth control pills. I couldn't stop myself, it was as if I was standing to the side of myself, just in disbelief at my behavior. I would actually set him up, knowing I was unreasonable, yet unable to stop. It was horrible for both of us. Obviously for him, but the loss of control over my own actions is something I still feel something like PTSD from
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Eunice Probert 6 years ago
There's a short story about that. The woman then cooked and served the lamb to the police who came to investigate!
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Shira Reinberg 6 years ago
As a woman with hormonal issues, I feel that alot of these women are using it as an excuse to abuse men..you can control yourself when it comes to doing physical petty things like cutting toes off socks or throwing things out the window. It's just an excuse to act abusive and get away with it in my opinion. While I can decide whether something will make me angry or sad, i can decide what I do about it. If someone actually can't control themselves to that extent then they seriously have some issues that are not connected to raging hormones
Random Panda 6 years ago
I also have hormonal issues and I completely agree with you. Not being able to control your emotional response is understandable, but breaking stuff and what not is not acceptable. Damaging your partner's possessions is an abuse tactic.
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Abhinav Singh Panwar 6 years ago
Most of these people sound awful but i find it really strange that people are finding their actions funny and are applauding them. Just reverse the roles and u’ll get the perfect scenario of an abusive relationship. I think such kind of behaviours should not be brushed off by labelling them as ‘hormonal actions’ and definitely should not be cheered or applauded.
Lola 6 years ago
Hormonal changes are a real thing. I for one, can not control my emotions at that time even if my life depended on it. You have to be in our shoes to understand what happens during that time. I get crazy and I am very aware of it, but I can’t help it. We don’t like feeling that way either.
Load More Replies... Shrigowri 6 years ago
My husband was a violent man...he used to hit me for silly reasons....I used to release my anger out by dipping his toothbrush in the toilet everytime he hit me.I used to happily give him his morning coffee after he had brushed his teeth.Now we are not together because I moved as I couldn't take his beatings anymore.Just walk out of violence..Revenge doesn't help.
Shira Reinberg 6 years ago
As a woman with hormonal issues, I feel that alot of these women are using it as an excuse to abuse men..you can control yourself when it comes to doing physical petty things like cutting toes off socks or throwing things out the window. It's just an excuse to act abusive and get away with it in my opinion. While I can decide whether something will make me angry or sad, i can decide what I do about it. If someone actually can't control themselves to that extent then they seriously have some issues that are not connected to raging hormones
Random Panda 6 years ago
I also have hormonal issues and I completely agree with you. Not being able to control your emotional response is understandable, but breaking stuff and what not is not acceptable. Damaging your partner's possessions is an abuse tactic.
Load More Replies... Abhinav Singh Panwar 6 years ago
Most of these people sound awful but i find it really strange that people are finding their actions funny and are applauding them. Just reverse the roles and u’ll get the perfect scenario of an abusive relationship. I think such kind of behaviours should not be brushed off by labelling them as ‘hormonal actions’ and definitely should not be cheered or applauded.
Lola 6 years ago
Hormonal changes are a real thing. I for one, can not control my emotions at that time even if my life depended on it. You have to be in our shoes to understand what happens during that time. I get crazy and I am very aware of it, but I can’t help it. We don’t like feeling that way either.
Load More Replies... Shrigowri 6 years ago
My husband was a violent man...he used to hit me for silly reasons....I used to release my anger out by dipping his toothbrush in the toilet everytime he hit me.I used to happily give him his morning coffee after he had brushed his teeth.Now we are not together because I moved as I couldn't take his beatings anymore.Just walk out of violence..Revenge doesn't help.
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