Re: If all women had PCOS temporarily...
From: Michelle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:54:35 -0500
Dear Jenn I too just want to be normal. Unlike you I go 20-28 days out of
every month. I have coarse black hair on my chin that I either have to shave
4 times a day or pluck constantly. So far none of the creams I have tried
have helped. Good Luck.
>From: anonymous@obgyn.net (Jenn)
>Reply-To: anonymous@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>Subject: Re: If all women had PCOS temporarily...
>Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:30:49 -0500
>
>Very well said. I often think the same thing. When I am talking to
>someone and it's obvious they are looking at the hair on my chin, rather
>than my eyes. I know they have to be thinking, "why doesn't she do
>something about that". But what they don't understand is, I could spend
>hours a day plucking and still never have it gone. Maybe if they dealt
>with what I have for just one week they would understand. None of my
>female friends seem to understand how great it is to have a period. They
>think it's great that I go six months without. I tell them, "yes it is
>nice in a very small way, but I JUST WANT TO BE NORMAL!!!" They still
>don't get it. Oh well.
>
>At Mon, 10 Jun 2002, jodi wrote:
> >
> >... 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
>
>--
>Jenn
>
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