Stephen Hillenburg (creator of Spongebob Squarepants) character designs for the cast of Spongebob from his pitch bible.
Fun Facts:
Spongebob was originally named Spongeboy but the name was forced to change after they discovered it was already being used.
Barnacle Boy was originally Barnacle Bill, who looks horrifying. I assume the design changes of the two underwater superheroes was due to the voice actors they hired for them (Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway.)
I have. I have talked to radfems and 90% of them have been either TERFs or collectivist mentality people who are trying to “save” me and “get me to join my feminist sisters.” You talk to women like they’re useless without you and act like a cult.
“Most radfems disown women who hurt other women” what a load of crock. Most of you are content to brainwash and pump women and girls with fear on the daily. You say things like “girlhood is trauma” and “being a woman is pain” in order to get women and girls to subscribe to your “men are pigs and being a victim is in” ideology.
You may not be hurting them physically, but you sure as hell are hurting them mentally with that kind of talk. And most if not ALL prominent radfem writers such as Dworkin and Plath had untreated mental illness, that should tell you how much water it holds.
Welllllllllllllll periods suck(trust me, I was emotionally close with a woman, in fact close enough to feel her goddamn periods. Fuck I fucking hated it, men, don’t get that attached. Be supportive, feed her ice cream and whatever else she asks for, but don’t get attached enough to feel them. It’s not worth it.
Anyway, I hate to be callous but that’s just your body telling you to hurry up and get pregnant. Of course birth control also makes them not as bad, depending on what kind. Of course you find out that there’s more kinds of birth control than there are types of oil, which is a pain. There are more period blood containment things(yes, tht includes tampons, pads, cups, etc.) than there are types of oil according to my dad who actually knows his shit about the oil,saying there’s like 4 types.(Yes, talking about motor oil here)
So ladies, find what’s right for you. Ask a doctor. Test some different period things out. It’s for your own good
What the FUCK are you talking about
can every cisgender man shut the fuck up
He really thought he was saying something
this is why men should have no place in a conversation about our reproductive rights.
stfu
No. Men absolutely have a place in the conversation. They should not be the primary decision makers. However, they should know what’s going on. We need to be teaching them what it’s actually like rather than just telling them to shut up. Stop shouting and insulting people into silence and have an actual conversation.
@epicghostdragon I understand that the situation you went through with your ex was difficult and I’m very sorry about that. Periods affect every woman differently but, I can tell you that they are in no way something we can just push off or stop. They do cause some major changes in mood and it really sucks honestly. There’s not a birth control out there that can get rid of them completely no matter what you’ve heard. And unfortunately birth control usually makes it worse.
I have tried almost every birth control on the market all of which are listed below just to help you understand how many there are.
Condoms – 85% effective, one time use
Spermicide – 72% effective, one time use
Pills – 99.9% effective. These scare the shit out of me though because if you forget to take one pill then the next day you can become pregnant. If you forget to take two pills you practically have to start over from the beginning. These also mess with your hormones major.
Nuvaring – 91% effective, lasts 1 month. (This is a plastic/gel ring you put in your vagina)
Hormone Shots – 99%, effective, lasts 3 months. These mess with your hormones big time. More on that later.
Nexplanon – 99.9% effective, lasts 4 years, implant in the arm.
Hormone IUD – 99.9% effective, lasts 3-6 years depending on the brand, implant in your uterus through the vagina.
Copper IUD – 99.9% effective, lasts 3-6 years depending on the brand, implant in your uterus through the vagina.
Those are all of the birth control types out on the market right now. I mean, excluding like abstinence and getting your tubes tied and blah blah blah. These are the only real reversible ones on the market. Out of those 8 I have personally tried 5.
Now, before anyone can comment on my virtue, it is important to me to mention that I am a married woman and I have gone through this process with a loving husband by my side the whole way through. The first thing I tried was actually Nexplanon. The lower effectiveness of condoms, spermicide, and nuvaring convinced me that they were not worth the risk. When I put in Nexplanon the side effects were pretty bad. I had mood swings like crazy. Normally, I am a very happy person, I’m constantly making fun and smiling at people I’m probably the nicest person you’ll ever meet. On birth control, I am not. It was one of the worst things I did to my marriage. I had MAJOR mood swings and a constant period. And I couldn’t understand why the mood swings were happening I thought it was a problem with me, that I was just depressed or maybe too stressed. At month 6 I called my doctor because I was tired of the non-stop period and they told me to wait it out, I told them to shove it and I wanted a different solution.
They prescribed keeping the Nexplanon and adding the Nuvaring on top, and that’s how I found out I was allergic to the type of plastic they use. It made my vagina itch really really bad. So that stopped in a month.
I called again and told them what had happened and they said again to wait it out. I figured I would try some stuff on my own. My husband and I tried condoms and spermicide next while I was still using Nexplanon because I was still terrified of being pregnant. Imagine making out with someone through Saran Wrap, that’s the closest I can come to describing condoms, the spermicide I guess I was also allergic to? I’m not sure but it burned inside when I used it and I followed the instructions perfectly. We tried that for a couple weeks and then gave up, sex was much less enjoyable and with the effectiveness being so low we didn’t want to risk it anyway.
Finally after a year I got fed up with having a constant period and went to the doctor and demanded that they take the Nexplanon out of my arm. I just want to reiterate that last part; I had a very heavy period for an entire year because of birth control. I bled for a year straight. So, finally they took it out and 1 week later I got the Skyla hormonal IUD put in. Finally my periods returned to normal but, Oh my gosh. My mood swings have skyrocketed.
This is what I have now and I am such an emotional wreck that my job threatened to fire me because I couldn’t be nice to customers. ME they threatened to fire ME because I couldn’t be nice to customers. The girl who, just a year and a half ago used to have people tell me I was way too nice. Still for the first 3 months I didn’t know what was happening emotionally. This whole time I had been figuring it was just me. Until one day I was at the kitchen table and I just couldn’t stop crying and my mom looked at me and said “aurora, this isn’t you. I think your birth control is giving you post partum depression. You have all the same symptoms” then it hit me. She was right. I just slumped in a chair and cried for a good hour because I didn’t know what to do. The only options left to me that I hadn’t tried were the copper IUD, hormone shots, and the pills.
Now, pills I had completely ruled out because I am the worst most forgetful pill taker I’ve ever seen and I will never try them because I know I will forget them and I will get pregnant. The hormone shots would give me the exact same mood swings because they were again messing with my hormones which was causing the intense mood swings. So that left the copper IUD.
The next morning I spoke with the doctor and he said that the copper IUD would make me bleed just as bad as the Nexplanon AND that it would include severe cramping.
I cannot win. There is no scenario in this that I don’t come out a little broken in some way or pregnant. I am so grateful for birth control because without it I would be pregnant and I can’t handle that yet but, I also literally hate birth control with a burning passion.
I don’t feel like I am ME anymore. I feel like I am a completely different person because I don’t react the way I would normally react. I just want a birth control option that allows me to pause having kids without ruining my life in the process.
I hope this helped you understand what women are going through in the realm of periods and birth control! I know I didn’t touch on periods very heavily but I feel like that subject is pretty widely discussed. If you have any questions feel free to hit me up 🙂
@anonomouslyaurora Wow, I’m sorry, everything I’d heard from women on birth control is that it shortens their periods and that they aren’t as bad on it. I wasn’t aware that wasn’t the case with most of them. Hard to believe that you can try just about everything and still not find what’s right for you. No offense intended, I just thought that if you work with your doctor on it that you’d find a solution, even if you had to try just about everything.
Thanks for informing me of all this, and I’m leaving this on my blog as a resource for my female followers so they have something they can get the basics of all these things, then go more in detail with a doctor if need be. Fun fact, my marine cousin’s wife had an IUD removed not long ago and they had to get permission from the state to use the device they use to remove them. It’s weird but maybe it’s a good thing that you didn’t get one, I don’t know what type it was but if it takes that much trouble and bureaucracy to get one taken out, maybe in some ways you’re better off, and you get fairly hormonal and crampy when they’re removed. That’s according to the woman herself and my aunt(not really by blood or marriage but still) that was a nurse and served in Vietnam. It’s not that great and I bet as technology improves, and as medicine improves, things will get better and you’ll have more options. I hope it turns out well for you!
Update: this guy was a cool dude who was willing to listen and to learn. We need more people like this. No matter how wrong you are, if you’re willing to listen to people who are right you can become 100% less wrong. Remember that
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