"Something about the birth control drugs that ravages women and turns them into bitches" I dated one with the opposite effect. She would rage and throw things and the doctor suggested that the pill would level out her hormones and stop the rages and it did. The monthly hormone thing with women is very real. It's not subtle. You have to give women a break. It's a hell of a burden. I am convinced many old religions avoided women on their periods not because they were "unclean" but because they knew that if men hung around them then it could break up marriages because some women just lose it sometimes.