From looking at my reading list, I see a lot of us have one thing in common this week

[conuly]

Poll #21801 Shark week in my pants!

This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 98

Got your period?

View Answers

Yes
17 (17.3%)

No
37 (37.8%)

This is not something that happens to me because reasons
44 (44.9%)

In honor of, uh, painting the town red, take this list of international period euphemisms. I have no idea if any of these are actually used widely, but that's not the point of listicles, is it? Or take this one instead.

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Food for Fines: Libraries Across the Country Will Let You Pay Overdue Fees With Donated Food

Mother and daughter pilot Delta flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta

Baranek Wielkanocny: The Easter Butter Lamb

When Weird Things Get You a Free Ride

Before the Easy-Bake Oven, Toy Stoves Were Beautiful and Deadly

NASA’s Study of Astronaut Twins Creates a Portrait of What a Year in Space Does to the Human Body

South Korean babies born Dec. 31 become 2-year-olds next day

The medieval romance of Silence: Suppose girls cannot inherit, but your only child is a daughter and you happen to have an enormous inheritance, what will you do? Since to try to change the law may be too hard to be a one-man task, it is much easier to dress the girl as a boy and fool everyone. With any luck, you might just get away with it.

Edible Archives Project Aims To Revive Hundreds Of Vanishing Indian Rice Strains

LeBron James Opened a School That Was Considered an Experiment. It’s Showing Promise.

In a first, Bedouin women lead tours in Egypt’s Sinai

History's 26 Most Incredible Heroes That You Never Heard Of

Take from the rich and give to ... the subway? Inside New York's evolving congestion pricing policy (Ever since I was a child I've gazed at the NYC subway map with a strong urge to add more lines to Brooklyn and Queens and, in particular, to connect them.)

Mothers grapple with unpaid maternity leave as lawmakers eye a change

Why Europeans Don’t Get Huge Medical Bills

Camille Laurens examines the life of the model for Degas’ masterpiece, “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But there’s still so much we don’t know.

As Weeds Outsmart The Latest Weedkillers, Farmers Are Running Out Of Easy Options

‘A monopoly on information’: Russia closes grip on internet

‘Retail apocalypse’ now: Analysts say 75,000 more U.S. stores could be doomed.

Head of Sudan's military council steps down, a day after Bashir toppled

AP Photos: India’s sacred cow a symbol of rising nationalism

As Louisiana churches burn, Congress hijacks the conversation on hate

HIV Rates Are Rising Across the American South in States That Didn't Expand Medicaid

People Kill People. But the Bullets Seem to Matter.

Teaching the Holocaust in Germany as a Resurgent Far Right Questions It

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

I said 'no' and then discovered it had started. I think you must have laid some sort of curse on me.

[melannen]

I was afraid to answer this poll for exactly that reason.

[conuly]

Mwa ha ha.

[adrian_turtle]

Maybe I should not have answered, for fear of the same curse. I am at that awkward age* where I THINK it's menopause. But you have to go a full year without a period for it to be menopause, technically.

*It's better than the previous awkward age, around menarche. I'm not completely clueless, and I have enough autonomy that I can leave the room when it seems to be filling up with bullies and/or bigots.

[kshandra]

My crone clock reset on the 4th of July last year, after nothing since the previous December. Fingers crossed that I get to celebrate another sort of independence this year.

[acelightning]

The concept that it isn't menopause until you haven't bled in a year is incorrect. I never completely stopped bleeding, and I just figured it was "menopause from hell", and it got worse and worse. I didn't go to a doctor because I couldn't afford to. Then it got so bad that I almost bled out on my way to the ER. It turned out that I had endometrial cancer, which hadn't caused me any symptoms until after my last "official" period. Because of that, I had a complete hysterectomy in 2011. And my oncologist asked me to warn all my women friends about the "one year" rule, and if they have any sign of bleeding after they think they're done, see a doctor.

Please, ladies, if things start getting weird, see a doctor.

[chanter1944]

Oh man, you too? My situation exactly, although to be fair, I was anticipating it'd show up, so...