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Re: everyone, i need a favor
From: A. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:29:20 GMT
I love the way you put this whole thing into words so effectively. I have
felt the same way. I have noticed the way that guys react now and I've
struggled to find a way to effectively communicate to my male friends what
is happening to me. Right now they just like to tease and giggle about who
has to shave more often.lol. They still do. I told them one day that I loved
the five o'clock shadow, I think it's so sexy and they told me to just grow
my own. It's not that they are trying to be cruel, but they just don't
understand that it does hurt not to be seen as the amazing woman I know I
am.
Angie
>From: anonymous@obgyn.net
>Reply-To: anonymous@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>Subject: Re: everyone, i need a favor
>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:40:53 -0500
>
>Hey Paula :-) I think men have a very difficult time understanding how
>emotionally wrenching, just the "de-feminizing" aspects of this disease
>are!
>I mean before you even get into the health part of it. I used to walk
>into
>an auto parts store and have to laugh because I couldn't make it more than
>2
>aisles before another salesman was asking if he could help me with
>something... NOW, I have bring in the search dogs to hunt even one of them
>down!! lol. I guess you could flip it over and tell a man, o.k. how
>would
>you feel if you got a disease that made all of your body hair fall out,
>turned your skin pale and girly, made you gain a ton of weight, gave you
>breasts and high voice, caused you to lose interest in sex and made you
>crave watching ice skating & soap opera's instead of football?? Who would
>you talk to about it? (certainly not your buddies) Would it make you
>cranky,insecure, bitter, embarassed, sad and possibly like there was
>something terribly wrong with you.... maybe all of the above? Then if that
>wasn't enough, add on top of it feeling physically ill much of the time .
>It's can be close to unbearable at times and it's a tough thing to work
>through. We know our men love us but that still doesn't always change how
>we
>feel about ourselves, and how we yearn to feel "normal" just for a little
>while.
>Susan C.
>
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