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Nearly half of women have experienced "period shaming"

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I did not know this was a thing. Is anything NOT a thing today? I was checking out Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and here how he tagged this link to the NY Post article:

THEY HAVE WHAT? ONCE MORE I FIND ‘MOST WOMEN’ LIVE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Nearly half of women have experienced ‘period shaming’. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

I was already laughing, so I clicked. Stigma and shame. Using the term "period" is "irksome." Some women are resorting to buying various products online despite a significant number of men being willing to buy these for them. Some women have had partners refuse to have sex (one in three) and others have felt pressured to perform other sex acts to, I guess, "compensate." https://nypost.com/2018/01/03/nearly-half-of-women-have-experienced-period-shaming/

I'm agog. :shock:
 
nota bene said:
I did not know this was a thing. Is anything NOT a thing today? I was checking out Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and here how he tagged this link to the NY Post article:

THEY HAVE WHAT? ONCE MORE I FIND ‘MOST WOMEN’ LIVE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Nearly half of women have experienced ‘period shaming’. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

I was already laughing, so I clicked. Stigma and shame. Using the term "period" is "irksome." Some women are resorting to buying various products online despite a significant number of men being willing to buy these for them. Some women have had partners refuse to have sex (one in three) and others have felt pressured to perform other sex acts to, I guess, "compensate." https://nypost.com/2018/01/03/nearly-half-of-women-have-experienced-period-shaming/

I'm agog. :shock:
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Use catamenial instead. It's patent terminology for monthly. But no one will know what you are talking about unless they are a patent attorney. (I just read patents).
 
nota bene said:
I did not know this was a thing. Is anything NOT a thing today? I was checking out Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and here how he tagged this link to the NY Post article:

THEY HAVE WHAT? ONCE MORE I FIND ‘MOST WOMEN’ LIVE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Nearly half of women have experienced ‘period shaming’. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

I was already laughing, so I clicked. Stigma and shame. Using the term "period" is "irksome." Some women are resorting to buying various products online despite a significant number of men being willing to buy these for them. Some women have had partners refuse to have sex (one in three) and others have felt pressured to perform other sex acts to, I guess, "compensate." https://nypost.com/2018/01/03/nearly-half-of-women-have-experienced-period-shaming/

I'm agog. :shock:
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I'm sensing a new #movement coming on. The 'get-your-boss-fired-for-not-buying-you-tampons-and-cupcakes-during-your-period' movement.

Your useage of a bold red font may be seen as triggering to those who've been period-oppressed BTW.
 
truthatallcost said:
I'm sensing a new #movement coming on. The 'get-your-boss-fired-for-not-buying-you-tampons-and-cupcakes-during-your-period' movement.

Your useage of a bold red font may be seen as triggering to those who've been period-oppressed BTW.
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No, no--if you click on the Glenn Reynolds link (and scroll for this entry), you'll see that he chose the color and bold. :mrgreen:
 
nota bene said:
I did not know this was a thing. Is anything NOT a thing today? I was checking out Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and here how he tagged this link to the NY Post article:

THEY HAVE WHAT? ONCE MORE I FIND ‘MOST WOMEN’ LIVE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Nearly half of women have experienced ‘period shaming’. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

I was already laughing, so I clicked. Stigma and shame. Using the term "period" is "irksome." Some women are resorting to buying various products online despite a significant number of men being willing to buy these for them. Some women have had partners refuse to have sex (one in three) and others have felt pressured to perform other sex acts to, I guess, "compensate." https://nypost.com/2018/01/03/nearly-half-of-women-have-experienced-period-shaming/

I'm agog. :shock:
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You never put ketchup on hotdogs
 
nota bene said:
I did not know this was a thing. Is anything NOT a thing today? I was checking out Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and here how he tagged this link to the NY Post article:

THEY HAVE WHAT? ONCE MORE I FIND ‘MOST WOMEN’ LIVE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Nearly half of women have experienced ‘period shaming’. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

I was already laughing, so I clicked. Stigma and shame. Using the term "period" is "irksome." Some women are resorting to buying various products online despite a significant number of men being willing to buy these for them. Some women have had partners refuse to have sex (one in three) and others have felt pressured to perform other sex acts to, I guess, "compensate." https://nypost.com/2018/01/03/nearly-half-of-women-have-experienced-period-shaming/

I'm agog. :shock:
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I was a public finance director in SoCal; great fun to be in a management meeting with directors of fire, police, and public works, only to be laughed at and shut down with the comment to ignore me, because "she gets like this when she's on the rag."

So yeah. It's a thing. Has been for decades.
 
This is totally not new.
 
nota bene said:
No, no--if you click on the Glenn Reynolds link (and scroll for this entry), you'll see that he chose the color and bold. :mrgreen:
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Oh OK, you've been absolved of period-oppression by the Deputy Snowflake of the SJW Police Dept. He/she sends his/her regards.
 
The first time I bought tampons at my wife's request, I admit to be embarrassed.

I dropped by a local pharmacy we often shopped at, found the brand and size she wanted, stepped up to the cashier. The cashier gave me the hairy eyeball, I trembled, and she squinted as she said "Your wife is pregnant. I continued to tremble. "Your wife doesn't need these." I mumbled, "it's for her artwork," paid and left.

At the time my wife was experimenting with a method for laying down thick layers of tempura paints she mixed herself. As they half dried, or less so, she use a tampon because of its absorbency to carve out the latest paint layer to reveal colors from underneath, in the end producing these very vibrant impressionistic landscapes. And she could recover a good portion of the pigments from the tampons when they dried. She did about 20 of those canvasses, calling them her "Tampon Series I." They sold well at shows.

When I got home, I put the package on her work table, and said, "never again while you are pregnant." She gave me a semi quizzical look, laughed, and I walked into the kitchen. About two weeks later, one of her not so nice "friends" gleefully told my I was keeping keeping a girlfriend on the side, she knew because I bought tampons for her at the pharmacy. My wife didn't explain, but walked away laughing. For the next six weeks she laughed every time she saw me, every time I started a conversation, every time I got into bed, every time I brushed my teeth, as I ate, as I played my guitar, as I watched TV, whatever the hell I did, she laughed.

I swore I would never buy her tampons again. Yeah, that worked out the way I wanted. Uh-huh, sure. I kept looking forward to menopause. If only I had known what that entailed.....
 
OldFatGuy said:
The first time I bought tampons at my wife's request, I admit to be embarrassed.

I dropped by a local pharmacy we often shopped at, found the brand and size she wanted, stepped up to the cashier. The cashier gave me the hairy eyeball, I trembled, and she squinted as she said "Your wife is pregnant. I continued to tremble. "Your wife doesn't need these." I mumbled, "it's for her artwork," paid and left.

At the time my wife was experimenting with a method for laying down thick layers of tempura paints she mixed herself. As they half dried, or less so, she use a tampon because of its absorbency to carve out the latest paint layer to reveal colors from underneath, in the end producing these very vibrant impressionistic landscapes. And she could recover a good portion of the pigments from the tampons when they dried. She did about 20 of those canvasses, calling them her "Tampon Series I." They sold well at shows.

When I got home, I put the package on her work table, and said, "never again while you are pregnant." She gave me a semi quizzical look, laughed, and I walked into the kitchen. About two weeks later, one of her not so nice "friends" gleefully told my I was keeping keeping a girlfriend on the side, she knew because I bought tampons for her at the pharmacy. My wife didn't explain, but walked away laughing. For the next six weeks she laughed every time she saw me, every time I started a conversation, every time I got into bed, every time I brushed my teeth, as I ate, as I played my guitar, as I watched TV, whatever the hell I did, she laughed.

I swore I would never buy her tampons again. Yeah, that worked out the way I wanted. Uh-huh, sure. I kept looking forward to menopause. If only I had known what that entailed.....
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Oh great! Now we're menopause shaming too.

Thank God there's no such thing as prostate shaming.
 
OldFatGuy said:
The first time I bought tampons at my wife's request, I admit to be embarrassed.

I dropped by a local pharmacy we often shopped at, found the brand and size she wanted, stepped up to the cashier. The cashier gave me the hairy eyeball, I trembled, and she squinted as she said "Your wife is pregnant. I continued to tremble. "Your wife doesn't need these." I mumbled, "it's for her artwork," paid and left.
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That's pretty rude actually, it's really none of her business as to why you are purchasing tampons to begin with. Just take the money and mind your own business.
 
Serenity said:
That's pretty rude actually, it's really none of her business as to why you are purchasing tampons to begin with. Just take the money and mind your own business.
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Oh, if people actually did that.

Hate to sound sexist, but I guess I can do it and get away with it because I am a woman.

Some girls are just bitches.
 
Lutherf said:
Oh great! Now we're menopause shaming too.

Thank God there's no such thing as prostate shaming.
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You know Luther, hubby never felt embarrassed to pick me up tampons or pads in those days. In fact if I had craps, he was there to get the heating pad or Midol. He was also there all the way through the birth of our children and it was him that took very good care of me throughout. Not my mother, sis in laws, brothers, or mother in law. It was hubby. I refuse to believe I was the only one who found such a man.
 
Lutherf said:
Oh great! Now we're menopause shaming too.

Thank God there's no such thing as prostate shaming.
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Don't be so sure about the prostrate shaming. Those with prostrate problems don't wear flags, but often there's evidence of a drip in the front. Young kids notice these things, point and laugh.
 
Your Star said:
This is totally not new.
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Right? :lol:

[h=1]Leviticus 15:19-33[/h]
19 “Whenever a woman has her menstrual period, she will be ceremonially unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her during that time will be unclean until evening. 20 Anything on which the woman lies or sits during the time of her period will be unclean. 21 If any of you touch her bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening. 22 If you touch any object she has sat on, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening. 23 This includes her bed or any other object she has sat on; you will be unclean until evening if you touch it. 24 If a man has sexual intercourse with her and her blood touches him, her menstrual impurity will be transmitted to him. He will remain unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will be unclean. 25 “If a woman has a flow of blood for many days that is unrelated to her menstrual period, or if the blood continues beyond the normal period, she is ceremonially unclean. As during her menstrual period, the woman will be unclean as long as the discharge continues. 26 Any bed she lies on and any object she sits on during that time will be unclean, just as during her normal menstrual period. 27 If any of you touch these things, you will be ceremonially unclean. You must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening. 28 “When the woman’s bleeding stops, she must count off seven days. Then she will be ceremonially clean. 29 On the eighth day she must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons and present them to the priest at the entrance of the Tabernacle. 30 The priest will offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. Through this process, the priest will purify her before the LORD for the ceremonial impurity caused by her bleeding. 31 “This is how you will guard the people of Israel from ceremonial uncleanness. Otherwise they would die, for their impurity would defile my Tabernacle that stands among them. 32 These are the instructions for dealing with anyone who has a bodily discharge—a man who is unclean because of an emission of semen 33 or a woman during her menstrual period. It applies to any man or woman who has a bodily discharge, and to a man who has sexual intercourse with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.”
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Serenity said:
That's pretty rude actually, it's really none of her business as to why you are purchasing tampons to begin with. Just take the money and mind your own business.
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Rudeness is considered an art around here. And in many other places. Gossip is a preoccupation everywhere.

A couple of months ago I was walking with one the younger grandkids in tow, hand in hand, the dog's lead in my other hand. Encountered a woman from the neighborhood I hadn't seen in a decade or so. She looked at me, at my granddaughter, said "She looks just like you, heard you remarried," walked off in a huff. She turned around and said "You still have that smelly old dog, too." My granddaughter looked up at her and shouted, "He stinks good!" She's learning.

Peter Lugar's steakhouse is a longtime institution, best known for quality steaks and rude waiters.
 
Superfly said:
Oh, if people actually did that.

Hate to sound sexist, but I guess I can do it and get away with it because I am a woman.

Some girls are just bitches.
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So are some guys. :)
 
vesper said:
You know Luther, hubby never felt embarrassed to pick me up tampons or pads in those days. In fact if I had craps, he was there to
get the heating pad or Midol.
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I'm assuming you mean "cramps", but I think it's better the way you wrote it. :)


Also, as a guy, I'm astounded there are people who aren't aware that women get shamed for having periods. Not just shamed, but blamed. There are some men who actually believe women only have periods to irk their men. True story, my wife ran into such a person at her job.
 
Slyfox696 said:
I'm assuming you mean "cramps", but I think it's better the way you wrote it. :)


Also, as a guy, I'm astounded there are people who aren't aware that women get shamed for having periods. Not just shamed, but blamed. There are some men who actually believe women only have periods to irk their men. True story, my wife ran into such a person at her job.
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lol yep it was typo.
 
nota bene said:
I did not know this was a thing. Is anything NOT a thing today? I was checking out Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and here how he tagged this link to the NY Post article:

THEY HAVE WHAT? ONCE MORE I FIND ‘MOST WOMEN’ LIVE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Nearly half of women have experienced ‘period shaming’. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

I was already laughing, so I clicked. Stigma and shame. Using the term "period" is "irksome." Some women are resorting to buying various products online despite a significant number of men being willing to buy these for them. Some women have had partners refuse to have sex (one in three) and others have felt pressured to perform other sex acts to, I guess, "compensate." https://nypost.com/2018/01/03/nearly-half-of-women-have-experienced-period-shaming/

I'm agog. :shock:
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This is an interesting discussion. I figured most period shaming (If there is such a thing) comes from women. Mostly themselves. Any time the subject ever brought up ladies do not want to talk about it. And I understand that.

Men think it's gross and it is even though it's a natural bodily function and it's something perfectly healthy women do it's gross kind of like ****ing or masturbating. That is something every perfectly healthy man does but it's embarrassing to talk about.

As far as not wanting to have sex well the wife for girlfriend is on her period I understand that too. There are lots of things women don't want to do.

If we're going to talk about period shaming, then I also want to talk about masturbation and defecation shaming. How about inappropriate erection shaming?

Our bodies do things sometimes we don't necessarily want them to do. Thus is life
 
CLAX1911 said:
This is an interesting discussion. I figured most period shaming (If there is such a thing) comes from women. Mostly themselves. Any time the subject ever brought up ladies do not want to talk about it. And I understand that.

Men think it's gross and it is even though it's a natural bodily function and it's something perfectly healthy women do it's gross kind of like ****ing or masturbating. That is something every perfectly healthy man does but it's embarrassing to talk about.

As far as not wanting to have sex well the wife for girlfriend is on her period I understand that too. There are lots of things women don't want to do.

If we're going to talk about period shaming, then I also want to talk about masturbation and defecation shaming. How about inappropriate erection shaming?

Our bodies do things sometimes we don't necessarily want them to do. Thus is life
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Porn shaming is a real thing too, when you're married, or in a long term relationship with a woman. I demand the right to enjoy 'Bubble Butt Vixens' without judgment!
 
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