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If all women had PCOS temporarily...From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:18:46 -0500 (CDT)
... what a happier world this would be! Last night I was feeling whiny and lamented, Why can't ALL of my leg hair be as thin and light and fine as the hair on my front and outer thighs??? I'd be the happiest person in the world." My fiance said, No, then you'd just find something else to obsess over... which might be PARTIALLY true... but I would still be ecstatic over have leg hair I could control and being able to wear short skirts... short shorts... bathing suits... I'd never stop appreciating that! I always feel so angry when I see women in shorts or skirts with nice smooth legs... I feel so freakish and hideous... why can't I have nice legs??? I hate them and I hate their legs and I hate how they show them off! But of course I realize this is irrational. It's just as irrational as the rage I feel when I hear women in bathroom stalls ripping open tampon or pad wrappers... I can't hate them for being normal, for functioning normally, for coming by naturally something I would commit murder (almost) to have... It would be just as nutty if someone were to hate ME for having blue eyes or nice fingernails... I have no control over this! But I still feel like I have this wonderful appreciation for the female form... for the magical process of menstruation... for how amazing being a woman is... but I only appreciate these things because I don't have them... and I never will, at least not by any natural means. It really bothers me when I read women's magazines and see tips for fixing your problem areas... your beauty woes... etc... when I think "I WISH the worst of my problems was celluite... I WISH the only thing depressing me was a pimple on my chin... I WISH a little razor burn was all I had to contend with when removing hair from my legs... I WISH I only had the occasional chin hair to contend with..." Ugh! It bothers me. The idea of being a healthy normal woman is so fascinating, so amazing... but women who have been blessed with normal female hormones of course don't realise this. They just chase after increasingly unobtainable perfection whereas I'd be happy as a clam if I could have normal periods and managable body hair! Hurumph. I feel like PCOS is just this unending lesson on why being a woman is awesome... but it makes me feel like screaming "OK God, I've learned! Now can I actually have a healthy body rather than just appreciate one from a distance?" I hate how women and girls beat themselves up over not looking like supermodels when just being healthy and normal is such a wonderful thing. Wonder if women everywhere would be better off if they all got PCOS for a year, and then had it go away? *sigh* Am I just a lunatic? Must be the hormones... - jodi
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