Hey, on a separate yet related note, yesterday's Wall St Journal has an article on all those new birth-control pills that supress period and mess with women's monthly cycles. Many people are not comfortable with the idea of altering or eliminating the monthly period. And then my eyes pop out when i read on (of course I am still uncomfortable with the idea and suspect drug makers, or even classmate Jun here, are probably sponsoring this article....)
".... Bu the reality is, a lifetime of monthly periods isn't quite what nature intended. Women today menstruate nearly three times as often as their ancestors, who typically had more children and spent years breast-feeding, a practice taht can naturally supress menstruation. But with the onset of modern birth-control methods, and the fact that girls tend to menstruate earilier than in generations past, women now have more periods. Today, the average North American woman has abut 400 periods in her lifetime. By comparison, an aboriginal woman in Northern Australia has about 150 periods during her life. ...."
Hence, my friends, women suffer a bloody lot from liberation and independence.
