If you don’t read Jezebel.com, you should. Here’s a post on why women try so hard to hide the fact that–like every other woman in the world–they have periods. The title is from my favorite comment by one of the readers.
Personally, I’m no longer afraid to look a male cashier in the eye while buying supplies, but I certainly keep the lid on the whole thing in general otherwise. Am still working on getting painkillers from the medicine cabinet in the maleroom (well, it is!) at work, but I feel equally embarassed to get bandaids or cold meds there. Why should everyone know that I have any medical needs at all? Since I am forever walking by the mailroom anyway to the bathroom next door, I pretty much already feel outed by my bodily functions.