PMS cramps and irregular bleeding are why I have an IUD (I was hospitalized back in 2016 due to severe anemia caused by polyp-induced menorrhagia). I do still get the hormonal swings where I get really emotional (even for me) for a few days, but I don't get cramps or bleeding anymore.

I've given myself a few tattoos (using proper supplies and following recommended safety guidelines!), and even those weren't as painful as period cramps.

but yeah, people suck. "THey're just trying to get a reaction!" No fucking shit. Maybe instead of telling girls that, you teach boys to stop being little shitheads, and maybe teach your other kids that, too, so it sticks with them into adulthood?

I mean, I honestly would rather not have the parts, period, but people keep going "But what if..." I don't want kids, I barely like imagining myself having sex, and I keep having health issues related to that part of me.

Individual rights are all well and good, but those rights end where fist meets face.

Gah, the queen's in my face again. I don't want most your lost garbage, woman!

Yeah, no. No pain is as bad as cramp pain. Except maybe the pain of having your uterus push the slagging IUD out because it doesn't like it. I just had to live with periods longer than a month and fibroids so big they were in danger of stopping the periods up. Oh, and PMS that literally made me lose the ability to think.

Been lectured adn not listened to when I expressed that desire.

Indeed.