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Why is there a stronger stigma behind menstruation, though? In many societies, people who had recently menstruated were seen as "unclean", yet defecation did not have the same stigma.
What societies are those?
For instance.
I never understood the stigma behind a completely natural and necessary process that half of all people have.
I understand what you're trying to say about patriarchy, and it's a problem, but that said... I and 100% of people have a few completely natural and necessary processes that we go through on a pretty much daily basis that are so stigmatized they have a special room in our houses dedicated to making sure we can do them in private. I'm talking about defecating and urinating. Can you imagine if--once a month, like clock…
I wasn't trying to say anything about patriarchy, just to be clear.
> Would you celebrate "I have monthly track marks", or would you develop coping mechanisms to try to hide it?
Neither, probably. If everyone got it, I'd say "I have my IBS these days" and everyone would understand.
> We generally don't share the details of what we do with our bodily fluids with other people.
Sure, but there's a difference between "holy shit this period is so goopy, it's like I have a second nose" and "this period is giving me pretty bad cramps".
> So I would say it's easily "understandable".
My issue is not about describing periods in detail, I understand why people don't want to invoke images in other people's heads. I'm just puzzled about not even being able to say "I have my period this week", which is like saying "I have diarrhoea", it's not really that descriptive unless the recipient tries hard to imagine it, in which case, it's their problem :P
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.
There's reason to think that modern women having so many periods throughout their adult lives is at least partly to blame for higher incidences of various female-specific cancers (breast in particular, but also uterine and ovarian). Reducing the number of periods a woman has in her lifetime greatly reduces the risk of those cancers.
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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…
I'm not a native speaker, so forgive me for not expressing myself clearly enough, but isn't urination also considered to be defecation, or does defecation in English refers only to the "number two"? I'm asking, because urine is mostly sterile. However, my point was that while there are a lot of obvious differences, defecation is similar enough to menstruation, such that it's not surprising that stigma is also similar…
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…
It has its pros and cons like everything.
It must be fascinating to work on an app where the target demographic is slightly less than half of the world's population. The CEO's Twitter feed is very interesting too. https://twitter.com/idatin/status/659853258496851968 What may seem as a simple tracker app on the surface is actually a very complicated product tackling many problems all over the world.
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I think that the pill is supposed to "cope" with potential unwanted pregnancy, not with periods.
> Many said their menstrual problems were greatly reduced, and of course there was a completely reliable schedule that came with it.
Period trackers don't protect against STDs, and neither does 'the Pill'.
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Why is there a stronger stigma behind menstruation, though? In many societies, people who had recently menstruated were seen as "unclean", yet defecation did not have the same stigma.
What societies are those?