What is the point of menopause?

Since I am enrolling in a school that dishes out hard questions...I want to know - not, what is the point of menopause...but what was God thinkin'?  I mean, really.  First there is the onset of menses when you are 10-12 y/o.  How mean is that?  Then you get to deal with this monthly for the next 800 years - or 40, but it certainly feels like 800!  and for what?  I was pregnant twice, but only got to the line once...and for this I have to have monthly periods for 40 years????  I mean really - what did women do to deserve this?  and don't give me that line of BS about Adam and Eve...that is a parable!  made-up story to prove a point...made up by men, I am sure.

So anyway - I am now in menopause.  Complete with hot flashes and mood swings.  Remember, Katie would just hold out her hands for my coat, scarf, and gloves, and then just wait patiently for the steam to disappear from my glasses.  In the snow.  In Paris.  No wonder Parisians looked at us so funny.  maybe it wasn't that we were 8 inches taller than all of them.

I know this is terribly spiritual - but truly...what was God thinking?  I mean, if God is a SHE...well, it just wouldn't happen.  If God is a HE - well, let's just not go there.  So if God is neither, but "all things"...how did this happen??  I'm sure you all just think I'm funny or if you are not so generous - wierd as hell.  My question is - how did a Supreme Being come up with this game plan?  The geranium in my window could come up with a better plan than this.

So truly - how did a Supreme Being come up with taking 1-5 years for a woman to go thro menopause (I will kill someone if it takes 5 years)...and come out on the other side with weak bones, saggy skin, and a thick waist?  Where is the bonus plan?  Isn't there supposed to be some sort of reward for getting thro it?  Wasn't it Winston Churchill who said, "If you are going through hell, keep going!"?  I guess good ol' Winston made no promises...maybe that's why he drank.  I'm just sayin'...