Comments on: Why Men Should Shut the Hell Up About PMS

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:30:47 +0000

Thanks a bunch Carl,
I looked it up & sounds like a great book, can’t wait to read it!

By: blah

blah — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:57:57 +0000

hey JM! haha some of these comments are ridiculously funny. i have to say, there shouldve been a disclaimer–

WARNING! ARTICLE NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY, IT IS MERELY SATIRE.

i really liked the article! it was very funny and people need to calm down a bit. this is just a mockery of the douchebag guy who makes fun of a girl who has serious PMS. idk, it happens in my high school all the time!

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:43:20 +0000

In my opinion every couple needs to read The PMS (Please Make Sense) Guide for Men by Stefan Jaskiel. It made my wife and I understand each other and why we behave the way we do. It gave us both great advice for dealing with my wife’s PMS. It was an easy read and written by a real couple.

By: Cresche

Cresche — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 06:54:53 +0000

I’m not sure how one is supposed to tell that this is a satire. There’s not really an indication as far as i can tell.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:50:58 +0000

Wow! I started my cycle today & have emotional (more sensitive) swings! I feel bad for my fiance & tell him that all the time. He admits he can be a selfish person at times, but says he couldn’t begin to understand what we as women go thru! For his understanding & truth on the matter, I become calmer & feel better about our differences. I feel that the fact that he can never relate to what I go thru frustrating & I find most fights are because I am trying to make him understand something he admits he never will! So when he acknowledges this, it helps me appreciate my situation!

Now, this is my story & every man & woman are different obviously, but I loved reading this article & my fiance would get a kick out of it to! We are both open & understanding people, but we have are moments & days where we feel/act like this article states! I love the irony of this whole discussion! The men who commented on here sound to me like the ones whom you wrote about & I find it hilarious that your freedom of speech is causing them to PMS as well! If they are not like the men you are refering to, then why get so offended & belittle themselves by lashing out! The name calling and telling you to “shut the hell up” is obviously an anger problem! Some women try to handle their symptom in a rational manner & talk about what is going on, but it takes a man to listen and be open for her to do that! If not then it gets blamed on PMS-ing & being “bitchy”….. not the real problem: communication & understaning for a loved one, which is what some of these men obviously cannot comprehend! Oh & sports injuries & pain are from a recreational activity…. Women don’t score any goals/points to get our reacurring pain, but nice try!

Anyway, thank you JM! I loved your article, it made my day a little brighter!

By: Ren

Ren — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:39:58 +0000

Wow, the amount of people who can’t take a joke is ridiculous.
In any case, I loved this article, it was funny and well-writte

By: Tim Mullins

Tim Mullins — Sun, 22 May 2011 17:41:56 +0000

Nice piece of sarcastic/cynical humor, but this subject can be very serious for young couples who are deeply in love if the woman truly suffers from PMS. I can say this because my wife of 32 years suffers from PMS. For the first ten years there was a steady feud between us for two weeks every month ……….. then bliss for the remainder of the month. If we weren’t as close/compatible as we are would we have stuck together? I can’t really answer that can I? Because I have no way of knowing how a theoretical situation would have played.

But who knows? My wife continually states that she has never met a man as understanding or patient as I am, meaning that she believes the answer is yes. But do you think she might be biased? Of course she is. We love each other very much, so there isn’t a chance we would not have stuck together. But the tension would dissolve most relationships. PMS is a serious condition which deserves much more research than it receives. On the second day of her period, my wife undergoes a very severe fainting and hot flash episode that will drop her to the floor in a pool of sweat if nobody is there to catch her, and help her to a seat. Every month! What does the doctors have to say about this? Take more vitamin B12! They obviously don’t take her seriously, do they? It’s not safe for her to take more than she already does. It seems to me that the medical community would get their act together and try to resolve the PMS issue.

By: Hustom

Hustom — Thu, 12 May 2011 23:33:47 +0000

If a woman can contain mean outburts caused by pms during the beginning of a relationship, then let it out once she’s comfortable with him, wouldn’t this prove she would be wrong to be mean to him when he was a stranger, and she is wrong to be mean to him just because she knows him better. At the beginning of that relationship the guy stereotypically would hit the punching bag at the gym with family issues or work issues. He would be more upfront and communicate his issues and problems as he got to know her better and she would reciprocate with her day. Some men can write, draw, paint there emotions as well. If a woman holds back at the start of a relationship then uses the guy as her punching bag, how is that justified just because he can’t walk out like on a first date?

By: Way

Way — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:33:17 +0000

Yeh yeh and 9 months of pregnancy is an inconvenience too. Suck it up. Guys get pms too. We just don’t whine about it.

By: Lady C

Lady C — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:33:01 +0000

It’s funny how the men are getting all mad because this article is on point (and funny-ha-ha). Men are given a pass to act like buttholes for weeks on end and people expect and accept that behavior as them simply being “agressive”, “manly”or “assertive” (both with positive connotations) while women are simply *itches and causing misery and war with their PMS.