How period trackers have changed girl culture

Post by endymi0n » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 1:26 PM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #10

eveningcoffee wrote: post #8

As the app mentioned is free, I would deduce that they try to turn the data about their users cycle into a monetary value. Is there research how certain periods of the cycle would affect women shopping behaviour (or behaviour in general)? I am asking this to understand how much value is in such information. Perhaps there are other aspects I am overlooking?

> Is there research how certain periods of the cycle would affect women shopping behaviour (or behaviour in general)? I am asking this to understand how much value is in such information. If someone stops having periods, that might be a sign they're pregnant. That's valuable to retailers (famously, some can spot when you're pregnant before even you know, by tracking purchases). Also, mood swings and specific cravings…

Post by moron4hire » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 1:31 PM UTC

braythwayt wrote: post #20

xyzzyz wrote: post #9

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It's not unlike the stigma behind a completely natural and necessary process that almost all of people have, which is defecation. Operationally speaking, the two are very similar. So, why is there a stigma behind defecation?

I don’t know about operational speaking, but epedemiologically speaking, the two are very different. One of them is associated with e. coli, a lethal bacterium that even in modern times and developed nations kills people on a regular basis, e.g. Walkerton, Ontario, where seven people were killed by improperly treated drinking water in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak It’s easy to see why…

Post by yumptonpa » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 1:31 PM UTC

Udo wrote: post #22

yumptonpa wrote: post #18

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You think it's a good think that the majority of women were resorting to a drug to cope with a normal healthy body function? I think it's good if more women are able to cope without the drugs.

I said it's a culture shift, I didn't mean to pass any judgement. As someone with a male body I'm not really in the position to tell. I have a strong feeling of what I would do if I had been born female, but I was not, so... Pain, suffering, and health problems in general, are indeed natural as you say. However, most people would consider them part of the " no thanks " aspect of nature. You disagree, and I suspect yo…

Post by golergka » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 1:33 PM UTC

yumptonpa wrote: post #18

Udo wrote: post #16

To someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s like me, this seems like a strange regression in some ways. The overwhelming majority of girls were on the pill pretty much when they became sexually active, and when I look at my age group right now, that's still the case to this day. The pill was considered normal, safe, and liberating. Many said their menstrual problems were greatly reduced, and of course there was a compl…

You think it's a good think that the majority of women were resorting to a drug to cope with a normal healthy body function? I think it's good if more women are able to cope without the drugs.

Post by golergka » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 1:34 PM UTC

zeveb wrote: post #24

yumptonpa wrote: post #18

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You think it's a good think that the majority of women were resorting to a drug to cope with a normal healthy body function? I think it's good if more women are able to cope without the drugs.

> You think it's a good think that the majority of women were resorting to a drug to cope with a normal healthy body function? That's what I've always thought was so odd about the complaint that erectile dysfunction are typically covered by health insurance but contraception may not be: the former fixes a broken body, while the other breaks a functioning one.