Ladies, one of the respondents to the thread, "Days after Aunt Flo" (about four down) used the phrase, "on the rag".  I've always thought that women were offended by it so it's never been a phrase that I would use with a woman.  Am I wrong?    How do you feel about those words?
And once again, I'm looking for the female point of view

Why? Because this is a public board and you don't get to pick and choose who replies to your posts. If you want a ladies only response, ask on the PO board.

I think more women can get offended by how the term is used rather the actual term.  Nobody wants to be invalidated by being told they must be on the rag.  That term itself is old hat, though.  Its not shocking anyone.  Maybe in the seventies?

i agree...i just simply call it my cycle

...and I tend to cringe when I hear the term. I wouldn't start using it just because a few of us say it's okay, though. And similarly I wouldn't continue not using the term if a few of us say we are offended. If you're not comfortable saying it, then don't. Simple as that. I think this is a use your best judgement situation and really depends on who you're speaking with.

....but I never took offense or cared one way or the other about the OTR expression.  

...if I thought about it deeply, I'd probably realize that by saying it to men, I was actually demeaning women.  Good thing I'm not a deep thinker.

"Some women" are offended by everything, including the words slut, whore, hooker, or even "girl"

Are rarely very pleasing. Think of the terms a vulva is called...snatch, bearded clam, gash, axe wound, fish taco ad infinitum. None of those sound at all appealing for something you men fight and beg and pay to get near, yet I am pretty darn sure it was the guys who coined those terms.

Riding the cotton pony