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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.

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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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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Being vegetarian is difficult normally, never mind with raging hormones. Girl, if you want chicken, you deserve it!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone in my family hates that part lol. When making sandwiches, we grab any part EXCEPT the ending of the loaf.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandmother told me that if I eat the crust, including the end of the loaf, it would make my hair curly. I already had curly, frizzy hair. I avoided the end pieces for years!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband and I take turns, one has the bottom crust, the other has the top one. No need to argue.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the first time I ever in my life heard of anyone actively WANTING to eat the crust. All my life, the crust gets left and either thrown away or eaten reluctantly. I should just keep all my crusts in the freezer and post them to you!!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone i know hates that word. We call the nobby the heel of the bread.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought that was going to be a fight over the non-crust piece. I don't think anyone eats the end piece in the US. But we don't throw it out, either. We reach under it for the good pieces until both crusts meet at the end. Then we throw it out. And we mock cats for their logic, lol.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol my family too. Sometimes we give it to the birds and sometimes when we are broke we eat it cuz its the last time we wil have bread in a few weeks.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never argue with a woman. She wants it? Then leavevit to her it's safer...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha i try to calm my temper cuz i dont like being yelled at and my mind is over empathetic

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The doggo wins. Could've split the butt in half lol but it's better dog solved it all

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I hear Nobby, I think of Nobby’s beer nuts. No one in our house eats the end crusts so we don’t have that problem. Only when it comes to garlic bread coz no one wants the end pieces lol.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Speaking of local words/terms, in my family if you had a knot in your hair it was called a LUG, apparently no one else says this, God knows where it came from,

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Husband sounds like a real a*s. You're pregnant, he should have just given it to you

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the heel piece, with a liberal coating of peanut butter and a glass of milk

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was so annoyed at my ex gf once that I grabbed my best friend, paid for us both to get on the next plane to Amsterdam and stayed there for 2 days. She still doesnt know to this day. Oops.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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