Finally, after having to suffer the internal misery of our menstrual cycles on our own, someone has created PMS-themed ice cream that just gets us.
As part of a class assignment, Oklahoma State University graphic design student Parker Jones created a few fictitious ice cream flavors that understand you and your period pains.
"I wanted to do a project that showed a humorous side of PMS...and how it affects women and what we really want to say when we just don't feel good," Jones explained.
21-year-old Jones told the Huffington Post that she designed the flavors as a part of her senior project. The project, she said, was inspired by the literal hell women go through while on their periods.
"The idea was simply what I wish I could say when I'm PMSing," she said.
The simple-yet-cheerful packaging of the ice cream represents all of the emotions that we experience as well as the comments that we wish it were socially acceptable to make during our time of the month.
PMS comes in three flavors: "Don't Come Near Me" rocky road, "I Need Some More" mint chocolate chip, and "I Think I'm Dying" strawberry swirl. Each flavor also features seven stages of emotion to accompany the title of the tub. For "Don't Come Near Me," the emotions include anger, rage, whining, crying, anxiety, laughter, repeat. This ice cream probably knows you better than you know yourself.
While the flavors aren't currently available in grocery stores, Jones's idea has gotten so much widespread attention that she's already been contacted by a few companies about collaborting on a few ice cream deals.
"I personally have no idea about ice cream production, but if someone does and wants to join in on my little ice cream joke, I would love to help out," she said. "Who could pass up an opportunity to eat ice cream—I'm sorry, I mean, produce ice cream—and design for a living?'
Hopefully the idea will actually be put to use by an ice cream company soon so we can all have a subtle way of telling people to "Get Out of My Face" without verbally saying so and starting the next World War. Until then, we will simply have to try as hard as we possibly can to get through those agonizing weeks without punching everyone in the face.