Curse or myth...........

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Moomin said:
It affects my performance but can help with vampire impressions? What's your view on the subject???

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/30926244
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Well shucks, not to get all serious, but yes, it seems it must affect performance. Women have "designed" internal shedding of body tissue each month or so. This is something that their bodies react to. This shedding appears to impart an immune reaction and an emotional/motivational reaction. Both the immune system and emotional/motivational reactions have been in place since females were reptiles (or earlier), long before female mammals, including humans, had evolved the systems of menstruation and internal fertilization. (Female reptiles have emotions/motivations and an immune system, but they lay eggs that are fertilized externally so they don't shed any internal tissues pertaining to ovulation). So the legacy of evolution for human females is menstruation and this process must interact and likely respond to systems in the body that have already long been in place, such as emotions/motivations and the immune system. The main issue, as the article points out, is variation among females and how it affects them. And socio-politically, neither women (or men), for the most part, want to suggest that this is a handicap, despite menstruation being an obvious biological difference. But yes, for some females, it must affect performance. And if they say so, then it seems we should take it at face-value truth.
 

The way they can get around that time of the month I'd have to say it's true. Most of the time it's alright but then you get that one month out of the blue where you don't know whether to just try and put up with it or call an exorcist.
 
Funny how the article that preceeds this one, with Annabel Croft - talks about breaking 'the last taboo', yet she continues to describe it as 'women's monthly issues', rather than call it by it's common name 'period' or 'menstrual cycle'. If she can't bring herself to break the last taboo when talking about breaking the last taboo, what hope is there?!
 
I think it's safe to say jamrags are a thing of the past now anyway

girls all seem to just have that injection nowadays don't they ?
 

The Cowboy said:
Funny how the article that preceeds this one, with Annabel Croft - talks about breaking 'the last taboo', yet she continues to describe it as 'women's monthly issues', rather than call it by it's common name 'period' or 'menstrual cycle'. If she can't bring herself to break the last taboo when talking about breaking the last taboo, what hope is there?!
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Good point. Well observed.
 

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