When periods are more than a part of grammar - a little about lady days

Periods. I hate them. You hate them. Guys don't understand them. "What? You bleed for how long? Why? Babies? Huh. Chiptole."

Periods are taboo, but when you're on them, there is not anything else you would rather talk about - bitch about. But, alas, the world likes to sweep any mention of them under the bloody rug, or strike them from the lady days calendar of life. I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say or what point I'm trying to make, but Gloria Steinem, of course, put it best with her essay If Men Could Menstruate. Sara Haskins Birth Control Target Women is pretty funny too.