Why do girls use their period as an excuse to diss their men and pick up fights?

You've obviously never had cramps so let me illustrate it for you: imagine if someone twisted your balls and was holding it there for a couple of hours. You'd get pretty crabby too. Honestly... older men will tell you, when your girl, wife, whatever, has her period... just give her some chocolate and leave the house.

Realize that when women go through menstruation it is as if their body is going through the hormone changes that they would during a pregnancy (i.e. high estrogen levels combine with high progesterone levels) these two hormones combine cause low dopamine (pleasure/well-being hormones) in the brain. To add to that it causes painful physical symptoms such as swollen glands in the breasts. Given that those symptoms aren't enough to leave a person "on-edge" to clear the uterus of the build up created earlier in the month they experience cramps that are much like mild-to-moderate child birth pains. Given the combination of pain, low dopamine levels in the brain, and the fact that it sounds as if you are in your teens and the girls you deal with are too, it is likely that they haven't quite learned to deal with the combination of all of the symptoms associated with menstruation.

If at any point in time you add to the stress of the moment with a less than sympathetic comment you are essentially asking for a verbal altercation.

Use it as a great way to get out of town for three days! Wait until you're married, then that period seems to last weeks at a time!

uh actually yes it can be that big of a deal. its called pms. and its very real!!!! but you wouldnt know that because your not a girl. pms and pmdd are very real syndromes and disorders with real symtoms. physical and emotional around your cycle. i know for a fact, i suffer from pmdd every month and it fcking sucks balls.

cuz its an excuse when their having a bad day lol. but i have really bad periods to the point where i can't move from the pain. so i can be nasty sometimes i have to admit it lol ~Ma'alea

My friend isn't like that at all. She will just tell me then i'd know to shut up lol.

You start bleeding out of your dick and having bad cramps all the time and see how calm you are.

I am not sure either, but I am definitely not like that. I can be bitchy though (sorry for my language).

it really is a BIG deal...trust me

when we are going through that time of month, our innards are screwing with us BIG time- hormones going out of control, nausea, painful cramps.

cut her some slack.

who knows? I'm a girl and I'm not like that lol...