I think that this is very true although at the time I had my partial hysterectomy in my mid-40s, I was bleeding so heavily and so often from fibroids that no amount of cultural acceptance was going to make me anything less than happy to have that all done with forever. To this day, I still count it as one of the best things that ever happened to me because it freed up my life in so many ways.

And that being said, I'm completely with you as far as advocating for destigmatizing and normalizing menstruation.