Margaret Cho's Period

"I feel like an Olympic gymnast or some other kind of professional athlete, too muscular and stressed out for feminine luxuries such as menses and the prom. When it comes time for one of my quarterly shed, it takes me by surprise and I welcome it like a long lost friend."

Read the rest of the entry here: Margaret Cho BLOG. It's dated 12/20/2004 and I'll try to remember to change the link once she archives the entry entitled, "Why Must I Bleed Alone?".

For those of you aren't familiar with Margaret Cho, she's the Korean-American stand-up comic of "I'm the One that I Want" fame, and it's fucking fantastic to read some of her experiences on the rag and responses to mesntruation-related enculturation. I'm particularly fond of her description of her mom demonstrating how to "properly" dispose of a bloody pad, "Of course I was incredibly lax about throwing those huge pads away, and my negligence was punished with more lessons on how to properly dispose of them, as if they were radioactive nuclear waste."

My favorite Margaret Cho line is probably "I'm here to wash your vagina!"

It annoys the fuck out of me that comedians are given free license to joke about everything except, for god's sake, our fucking periods. Oh wait, GUYS can joke about them (usually in a way that reminds us they'd rather not hear about them at all and aren't we disgusting to even make reference to them). . . but women can't. How fucked up is that?