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Unless you’re Jonah Takalua, then it’s totally okay.
I will allow my doctor to ask this question. Especially if they’ve asked me to disrobe and plan to be giving me my annual pap smear.
Also, “Are you still on your period?” is OK to hear from the boyfriend if he is inquiring whether or not sexy times will result in staining the bedsheets.
For those who don’t want to use a calendar and/or a spreadsheet to keep track, there are great sites like pmsbuddy.com. You never have to ask again.
some ppl aren’t regular D:
If they’re ravenously devouring chocolate and reading gun magazines then the answer is yes. Bonus points if they purchase a gun.
As much as I hate PMS jokes… this made me LOL.
uh, while i was at camp, this one dude kept asking if i was on my womens perioud and asking about tampons. i was so pissed. i hardly knew him and hes asking me these questions. one more day with him and i would have cut his balls off while he slept
Uh… so that was a “yes” then? :p
Wow, this was so full of win.
Just a note for any guys curious about why women hate being asked this question: we know what it means. It means, “Since you are a woman, I’m going to assume that you are emotionally unstable and that the things you are saying are irrelevant and have no value since you couldn’t possibly have a legitimate reason to be angry or upset. Only MEN have legitimate reasons to be angry or upset!”
Women do have legitimate reasons to be angry or upset, and these are generally the same reasons that men have.
Unfortunately, though, when women are angry or upset, it almost never ends up being for one of these legitimate reasons. Hell, it’s pretty unusual for it to be for any reason at all.
lol
Aw, you’re just mad because you’re a virgin.
Aw, your just mad because he just defiled your feminist remark.
I think she (Female Human) was demonstrating how demeaning it is to have one’s thoughts and feelings reduced to (for women) a hormonal change or (in this case) sexual frustration. Besides, Yeah’s response to her “feminist remark” was a pretty prejudiced assumption, and it only perpetuates the idea that women’s thoughts and emotions are trivial. DUH.
No, silly, women aren’t legally allowed to have thoughts and feelings. Your point is moot.
you’re a moot
Thats funny!
haha, i like how she specifies that she’s a human. (then again, that is a bit hypocrytical coming from me :])
Exception: When you’re about to go snorkeling in shark filled waters.
… or camping in bear country
… or contemplating cunnilingus
… or helping keep track when using the Rhythm-and-Blues Method of contraception. (Either you got the Rhythm or you got Blues.)
I would say something about the guy laundering the bedsheets, but the only guy I know that does laundry has a boyfriend, and this isn’t a worry for them.
Honestly I’m alright with the question…
or around dogs…
hell, yeah. my dog can smell the feckin blood.
Exception No. 2: When you’re about to go snorkeling with Edward Cullen
The graph’s maker was obviously on her period while making this. It’s kinda true, though.
Yes, I was. How did you know? XP
Well duh, you don’t just come out and *ASK*, you install an Android app on your phone and give her a 1-5 pissiness rating at the end of every day for several months until you see a pattern.
i’m guessing whoever made this was on their period
Guys are such morons…
And you wonder why we break up with you…
Because you’re immature jerks who only think of one thing!
That’s not true, some times instead of thinking about beer we think about food as well.
I’ll give it to you Weej that was pretty funny. But we prefer it if you would think of us also…
Girl Power and Arianna are both obviously on there peroids.
BEST. COMEBACK. EVER.
Is it that time of the month again?
My period freaks me out. Mr. Garrison had it right when he said “I don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die.”
All that iron deficient thinking has me behaving in a ridiculously melodramatic fashion the entire time. Don’t worry, I’d want to know too.
independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/pmdd-extreme-pms-438114.html
This scares me the most.
Or…”Are you pregnant?” or “When are you due?” N-E-V-E-R.
Here’s how to tell if I’m on my period. If you joke about it and get killed instantly. Easy as that.
Know what’s worse? Being nine months pregnant and having a guy say “Oh! I didn’t know you were pregnant! I just thought you were fat.” >_<
EAT HIM
I’m loving how this graph is coloured red xD
It should be blue, isn’t it?
Shows up red on mine
if it’s between me and my bff it’s ok but if it’s in front of the whole class …..hell no !
I’m a guy and I always ask my classmate if she has her period, when she seems pissed. She doesn’t get mad at me either.
Well, she should.
She does, she’s just seething on the inside.
I’m a woman, and I don’t get offended when people ask me that. Girls who do are just entirely too uptight. Get the stick out of your ass and relax.
You might find this hard to believe, but some women would rather be taken seriously and treated with respect than thought of as “cool” by immature dudes. If someone asks me if I’m on my period, it’s because they are belittling me for being upset about something and dismissing whatever I’m saying as unimportant.
I don’t get treated any differently or taken any less seriously. Most girls really do act incredibly angry and rude when they’re on their period. So maybe guys just want to know that the reason some women are being that rude is purely chemical, and not because the guy did something wrong. I think you’re reading way too much into it.
It’s sad that you’re a woman and know so little about periods. PMS typically goes away when the woman’s period comes. Hence, “PRE”menstrual Syndrome, so the whole “on their period” thing makes no sense. And yes, they ARE actively treating you differently and taking you less seriously when they ask you that. If a guy gets pissed off, do they say, “dude, are you having a hormonal fluctuation?” I doubt it. They would ask what he was so pissed about. You know, actually take him seriously. And no, most women DON’T act incredibly angry and rude around their periods. Maybe you and your friends are just unpleasant people and like making an excuse for it. I go to work, make out with my boyfriend, go jogging, chat with friends, and live my life and associate with people exactly the same as I always do. Except maybe more crampy.
wow FH is most definitely PMSing right now, and you wonder why we ask if you are on your periods….Its because 90% of women get INCREDIBLY pissed off at the most random things when they are on there period, or should I say PMSing. Also I like how you pretened you have a social life and a boyfriend, good try FH, but you failed. (P.S. If you aren’t PMSing, you have a horrible temper and get pissed off way to easily, I would hate to see you PMSing if you aren’t right now.)
I’d like to see your sources, the only numbers I’ve seen about PMS are that about 80% of women PMS (and that doesn’t necessarily mean mood swings, it could mean cramps, bloating, etc.). And for future reference, because I’m sure you’ll ask, I don’t PMS at all. Nice try at debasing Female Human’s argument, but you just showed that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
“You might find this hard to believe, but some women would rather be taken seriously and treated with respect than thought of as “cool” by immature dudes.”
“Immature dudes” exist because women reward their behavior. Your gender is selling you out.
in twilight they ask O_O
gosh, you’re so right. it’s annoying. why do they care?
the graph means it’s never ok to ask if someone’s on their period
the graph means it’s never ok to ask if someone’s on their period
Oh, by the way…
What did the lesbian vampire say to her girlfriend?
“See you next month!”
XD
Kinky. I like
I have female friends who openly voice when they’re on their period or what happened the last time ever once in a while. They’re not being disgusting or shocking about it, and they say they should be allowed to talk about their bodily functions in the same way men do, and I agree with them. Not that I love hearing about anyone’s bodily functions particularly, but treating them all with an equal level of head-nodding and coy smirking is possibly the most important step towards equality that kids my age can take.
you just had to put it in red didnt you
i think the color should be more dark and intense
Some women don’t have terrible PMS, some don’t have mood swings during their periods, and some don’t PMS at all. It’s stupid to stereotype women and assume that everyone acts the same during her period.
Hey, guess what? Women don’t typically have PMS while ON their periods. It’s called PRE-menstrual syndrome. “Pre” as in “before”. Female biology knowledge fail. And also, lots of women don’t even experience PMS in any sort of mental way, or even at all. And a final note: male hormones also fluctuate. Just because they aren’t also later marked by a period doesn’t mean you don’t have hormones and that they don’t affect you. Perhaps you should go punch a wall or get in a fight or some other stereotypical manly act that is somehow considered superior to female PMS symptoms.
you should really chill out.
You should really consider the fact that most of the time, women are angry at you because you upset them (did something stupid), not because it’s their period.
i don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
I find it amusing that I’m being asked to “chill out”, the assumption being that I’m all hot under the collar over some anonymous dudes on a website yucking it up over periods. Ha ha, I can’t believe how sensitive you guys think women actually are. Sorry, but you do not have some magical power to affect my life. You could live in another country for all I know and I would never even run into you (thankfully). And you are more than welcome to not live on this planet. If all men who can’t see things from another’s point of view or learn to take women seriously left the planet, I think we would have awesome mass orgies down here.
i’m asking you to chill out because it’s a joke. a joke you obviously don’t humorous (one i find uncreative, btw). i don’t think you’re sensitive, you’re clearly ok with being one of valerie solana’s disciples. i just meant that if it bothered you, why are you so angry and trolling this comment box? i mean sure a lot of things on the web bother me, but i call my coping method “not giving a what a machine shows/tells me and living my life.”
also, why do you immediately assume i’m a man?
Jokes are based in reality. This joke exists because people actually think this way. Everyone has a point where they just get so sick of it they have to comment. Funny how you assume that just because I want to be taken seriously as a human being I must support people who want to commit murder and “gendercide”. I think I’d miss my friends and boyfriend. Just because some men are misogynistic assholes doesn’t mean they all are. That also doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t be educated when they say ignorant and insensitive things and perpetuate damaging stereotypes. Did you know that a recent poll showed that one of the top reasons people think women shouldn’t be in leadership positions is because they have PERIODS? Jokes like this perpetuate negative stereotypes that actually wind up holding women down in the bigger scheme of things and hold our society back. And I assume you are a man because you seem to have no ability whatsoever to see things outside of a male perspective.
you’re aware that you acting like this is perpetuating other unfair stereotypes placed on women?
there’s someone who will never get a girlfriend
Why is a woman’s time of the month called her period?
Because Mad Cow was taken.
(Old, yet still amusing)
Blah blah blah whatever. Ladies, you need to stop flying off the handle at this question.
Periods happen. I know when blood starts gushing out of *my* clamburger, I’m more prone to irrational behavior. It just happens that way.
Right, because if YOU act that way during your period, it obviously means that every woman in the world must act that way, too. Some women just don’t PMS or don’t have mood swings, and it’s obviously offensive for someone to say that you can’t have or express emotions unless you’re on your period. It’s like saying that your opinion doesn’t matter because you’re delusional, when you’re perfectly sane.
The only person to have ever asked me this question is my mother, aside from the medical community.
I had snapped at my niece and made her cry when she didn’t deserve it.
I have never felt discriminated against. You’re attacking everyone on this page like you’re the damn period police, though.
I’m not attacking, I’m correcting. So you wouldn’t be offended, because your emotions only show when you’re on your period? I don’t PMS at all, so of course I’m offended if someone assumes that I only argue/get angry because I’m on my period. Plenty of people have emotions when they aren’t menstruating and would like that to be recognized.
Yeah, I’m actually a menstruating robot. That’s what it is.
Maybe they’re giving you the benefit of a doubt because what you’re doing is totally inane?
Janine, La Femme has a very good point. Maybe you experience emotional disturbances around your period, but why should that make MY emotions get taken any less seriously by the people around ME? Making generalizations and treating all people the same based on a completely misunderstood concept is a terrible idea and something people like to use as a scapegoat to allow them to stereotype any emotional behavior from women and ignore whatever their complaint is, however legit it might be. I’m sorry you have such PMS-related problems, that must suck, but a lot of us don’t and and are perfectly capable, rational, hard-working people all throughout the month. We’d like to be treated that way.
… Okay.
So are you and Le Femme the same person, or are you both just wound way too tightly?
No, we both just have respect for ourselves and like being treated equally among our peers, instead of being treated like walking stereotypes. Being easy-going is one thing, allowing yourself to be disrespected is another.
And how can I be wound tightly after that awesome vampire lesbian joke I just threw out there? Come on, you know it was awesome.
“I get my respect the same as everyone else. Nobody walks on me, and I don’t walk on anybody.”
Yet you are perfectly comfortable with your emotional states not being taken seriously?
It’s really unnecessary to ask someone whether it’s “their time of the month” unless you’re a doctor or a significant other wondering about whether your partner is pregnant or not.
If two people are arguing or a person is feeling sad/angry/anxious/whatever, it doesn’t help the situation to ask whether or not that person is on her period. It sounds stupid, immature, and offensive.
Anyway, if women have emotions for billions of reasons, just as men do, how can you say it’s not rude to assume that we only have emotions on our periods?
Is that the association? Do we live in some 1950s suburb?
I have some emotional states that are anything but seriously, but that’s just me.
Are there really people out there, en masse, assuming that women don’t have feelings unless they’re menstruating?
“Is that the association? Do we live in some 1950s suburb?”
I never said that menstruation is or should be a taboo. It’s just a part of life. What SHOULD be a taboo is assuming that a woman is menstruating when she argues, cries, and so on.
“I have some emotional states that are anything but seriously, but that’s just me.”
Yes, so does everyone (men included). However, I’ve never heard or heard of someone asking a man “Are you sexually frustrated?” or “You must be a virgin.” just because he was angry or sad. Even if it HAS happened, it’s obviously not happened to the extent that the period thing with women has. It’s still wrong to assume that the cause of a woman’s emotions is her period. Really, this isn’t complicated.
“Are there really people out there, en masse, assuming that women don’t have feelings unless they’re menstruating?”
I know that I’ve heard both men and women say “Are you on your period?” or “It must be your time of the month.” when someone else is acting emotional (and not just me, thankyouverymuch). If you’ve never heard that or any variation of that, fine, but I find that hard to believe.
I think you’re really missing the point… It’s about how menstruation is used as a reason not to take women’s emotions seriously. Maybe you should read what I wrote again before you comment, because I’m sure that I wrote this more than once. When someone is arguing with someone else or crying or just feeling emotional, it’s not right to just invalidate someone’s emotions by pointing out that as a woman, the first person’s emotions must be caused by menstruation, rather than family problems, depression, or *gasp* genuine emotion.
I don’t think I’m “flying so far off the handle” seeing as I’m having a perfectly reasonable debate with you. ^^
As for this being the “smallest offense” I hope you realize that if someone says “you must be on your period” they’re implying “You’re being irrational because you’re PMSing. You must be PMSing because you’re a woman and you’re not supposed to act emotional.”
Thanks for telling me that you can’t stand me. I mean, I find you interesting to debate with, but that’s just me.
I was on the debate team for 4 years or so during high school, but I was never that great at it.
I think you’re blowing an isolated phenomenon way out of proportion, personally. I could get all bent out of shape about the Westboro Baptist Church, and then blanket the entire Baptist faith with hateful slurs, but it wouldn’t be fair.
HOW DARE MEN TRY TO TELL ME THAT ALL WOMEN ACT THE SAME BECAUSE OF PMS
NOT ALL WOMEN HAVE PMS
THIS IS A MYTH TO TRY TO OPPRESS THE OPINIONS AND FEELINGS OF WOMEN
ALL MEN ARE IDIOTS AND DESERVE THIS BLANKET STATEMENT
BLARRHAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH
For me it’s the endless cramps that cause moodiness. That’s how I know that the ‘glory of womanhood’ has reared it’s ugly head again, because it feels like I’m going to blow up.
same. although, i tend to sleep more during mine, but when those f-ing cramps start going, i just dont want ppl near me.
The poster must be on her period.
The graph is basically saying if you think a girl is on her period and if she does PMS chances are when you ask her if she is on her period she’s gonna bite your head off. If she isn’t she might be offended but once again chances are she’ll either bite your head off or calm down from the embarrassment. Girls are emotional beings. I’m sorry about that but that is just the way we are. This doesn’t need to been blown so much out of porportion. (is that spelled correctly?) People need to calm themselves down.
Except when your girlfriend is 15 days late and you pray to every god imaginable that she gets it.
This is about the only time a woman is actually extatic to see that little red spot.
Unless she wants a kid.
I’m laughing at these arguments.
“Maybe she’s mad because you did something stupid.” I hate this argument, it always seems that the people who say it are implying that women never do stupid things that upset their men, and if they do then ‘oh well he deserved it.’
I love how the graph is in red.