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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I pretty much agree with you. Not judging anyone who takes HRT or is having a hard time -- women should do what they need to make being a woman work for them, I'm always going to back up other women on this, the world is unkind to women.

But yes a big part of me just wants to normalize the changes of menopause as being natural and inevitable and not something we automatically have to fight or fix.

These feelings are rooted in this idea that women are constantly being asked to hide, correct, or reverse our biology. Girls are often taught to fear or be ashamed of menstruation, to conceal it from men and each other and be embarrassed by any sign that they are on their period. Many girls and women even use the pill to avoid their period, which is viewed as a gross inconvenience because we've structured society so that it is. Women dealing with hormonal changes from pregnancy, childbirth, and pregnancy are often expected to conceal or treat those as well, and certainly never to allow them to impact their ability to work, care for other children, or have sex with their husbands. And then the current approach to perimenopause and menopause is to find medication that will eliminate symptoms, while also working hard to make sure the physical changes of menopause never show up on our bodies, or can be concealed somehow.

Like there's just a big part of me that wishes all of this was normalized and supported by society. That I could say "yes I didn't sleep well last night, I've been waking up with night sweats from the hot flashes this whole week," and the response would be "that sounds hard, go have a rest" instead of "why aren't you on HRT?"[/quote]

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