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Women Are Sharing The Most Obscene Things They’ve Done While ‘Under The Influence Of Hormones’
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“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."
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!
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
with my cats you need to have tough skin...they can give one mean looks
Being vegetarian is difficult normally, never mind with raging hormones. Girl, if you want chicken, you deserve it!
MIL's can be difficult, but I'm not sure assault is the answer. Being hormonal doesn't excuse behaviour like that.
my gf hit me the last morning after she had a bad dream about me cheating. what a nice wake up
I would cry for the dog, but really NO DOGS deserve to be called ugly :(
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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
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.
They might be; please read my reply to Dave C (top comment)
Well you obviously don’t suffer from really bad hormone swings then !! What you have just said is not at all justified in any way . Woman with bad pms have no idea how to control it !
I'm sorry, but that's insulting to any grown woman. You're saying that bad mood swings give you a right and justifies destructive and abusive behavior towards men? We're human and we have free will, so unless you have a mental disability and you cannot control yourself, you have no excuse for that behavior. It's called immaturity in my books
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It's not always possible to control yourself. I would just be standing there outside myself,in total disbelief, unable to stop, being so totally unreasonable. It took getting off birth control pills, then getting my thyroid removed, then getting on an anti depressant, then finishing menopause, with each step more in control. Now all I have to deal with is depression. I do still occasionally get PTSD- like flashbacks though.
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.
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.
Hi, please do not take any of my comments as some sarcastic point, i’m completely serious. You should get yourself evaluated if not done already, the differential diagnosis of PMS are mood disorders, thyroid disorders and underlying major psychiatric disorder. If you think that you can not control your emotions even if your life depends on it then please and get yourself checked, I seriously doubt that it is just a case of PMS (I am a medical graduate from the largest hospital in India and currently studying for the Unites States Medical Licensing Exam, all of the above information is from Up-to-date which is considered to be the gold standard in terms of medical education. I would say that u should read the topic from there but u’ll need to pay for the registration or u have to register through an University which has been already registered.) Thanks.
Please read my reply to Dave C ( top of the comments)
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.
"Now we are not together because I moved ..." - Good for you! Happy to read that. I wish you all the best and hope that you'll find someone (or already did) that treats you better and with love!
good for you but totally irrelevant
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
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.
They might be; please read my reply to Dave C (top comment)
Well you obviously don’t suffer from really bad hormone swings then !! What you have just said is not at all justified in any way . Woman with bad pms have no idea how to control it !
I'm sorry, but that's insulting to any grown woman. You're saying that bad mood swings give you a right and justifies destructive and abusive behavior towards men? We're human and we have free will, so unless you have a mental disability and you cannot control yourself, you have no excuse for that behavior. It's called immaturity in my books
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
It's not always possible to control yourself. I would just be standing there outside myself,in total disbelief, unable to stop, being so totally unreasonable. It took getting off birth control pills, then getting my thyroid removed, then getting on an anti depressant, then finishing menopause, with each step more in control. Now all I have to deal with is depression. I do still occasionally get PTSD- like flashbacks though.
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.
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.
Hi, please do not take any of my comments as some sarcastic point, i’m completely serious. You should get yourself evaluated if not done already, the differential diagnosis of PMS are mood disorders, thyroid disorders and underlying major psychiatric disorder. If you think that you can not control your emotions even if your life depends on it then please and get yourself checked, I seriously doubt that it is just a case of PMS (I am a medical graduate from the largest hospital in India and currently studying for the Unites States Medical Licensing Exam, all of the above information is from Up-to-date which is considered to be the gold standard in terms of medical education. I would say that u should read the topic from there but u’ll need to pay for the registration or u have to register through an University which has been already registered.) Thanks.
Please read my reply to Dave C ( top of the comments)
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.
"Now we are not together because I moved ..." - Good for you! Happy to read that. I wish you all the best and hope that you'll find someone (or already did) that treats you better and with love!
good for you but totally irrelevant