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These People Are All Very Confused by Periods

Hey guys…can we have a talk? Some of you are making the rest of us look bad because you have no idea how periods work, and you kind of look like morons.

Fellas, let’s try to do a little better, okay? Go read up on this subject so you don’t embarrass yourselves any further.

Here are 10 prime examples of what I’m talking about.

1. The answer is “no.”

2. What is this thing?

3. No need to be shy.

4. How about spearmint?

5. He seems like a brilliant guy.

6. This old classic.

7. Wow. That is really something.

8. Not quite, Cody

9. Solid advice

10. “I’m not seeing it in here…”

Ladies (or maybe even some of the fellas out there), have you had any embarrassing/infuriating/annoying interactions with people about period knowledge?

Tell us all about it in the comments! We could use some more laughs!

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Middle School Students Protested the Lack of Free Tampons at School with Inventive ‘Tampon Cookies’

These kids weren’t messing around…

Having periods can cost you roughly $18,000 over the course of your lifetime, according to 2017 analysis by HuffPost. It doesn’t quite seem fair that half of the population should have to pay out of pocket for an uncontrollable health necessity, which is why many folks have recently begun advocating for free tampons and pads at work, schools, and public places.

Now, even young people are getting in on the fight.

A group of middle schoolers organized to ask the principal to start distributing free tampons in the bathroom. The male principal refused, claiming that kids would “abuse the privilege.”

Whatever that means…

The students didn’t give up, though. They protested by making cookies in the shape of tampons.

Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, is the friend of the parent of a seventh-grader at the school. She told the story on Twitter.

“The kids decided to hold a cookie protest,” Ilyse wrote. “Behold the tampon cookies!”

The cost of tampons is especially unfair for young students, who have no control over their parents’ level of income or wealth. Kids who don’t have reliable access to menstrual products may not be able to attend school consistently.

The cookies appear to be made of wafers, red and white frosting, and string.

In response to Ilyse’s tweet, other Twitter users shared stories of similar actions at other middle and high schools.

They also mocked the principal’s concerns and praised the students’ creativity.

As one user wrote: “The kids are DEFINITELY alright.” And hopefully, their efforts are successful!

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Students Make Tampon Cookies for Their Principal After He Refuses to Put Tampons in the Bathrooms

Leave it to a man to do something this ridiculous regarding women’s health. At a middle school recently, some kids got pretty peeved when the (male) principal argued against putting a tampon machine in the restroom because the students would “abuse the privilege”…whatever that means.

So what did these obviously bright and crafty seventh graders decide to do? They held a protest and baked some tampon cookies.

People thought the protest was pretty amazing, and the responses came rolling in.

“Each generation is incorporating feminism into child-rearing more and more. Yesterday’s ‘you can be a doctor’ is now ‘you can be a doctor and you can demand tampons.”

“She and every girl in the school should rally together and agree that every. single. time. they need a tampon, they should bypass all other adults at school and go ask for one from the principal directly.”

“Maybe the girls should demonstrate that they are not taking advantage of free tampons by returning them to the principal when they are finished with them.”

The girls who baked the cookies also released a statement under the name Revolutionary Girls’ Baking Society (this just keeps getting better) to update the world on what happened after the tweet went viral. The statement said, in part:

“After our cookie protest, our principal and the school board are now working to make sure every girl in our town will have the products they need readily available so no girl misses a day of school. We are very grateful that the school has taken our action seriously and is making a change. Feminine hygiene is not a luxury or a privilege, and not having tampons and pads is a barrier to every girl’s education.

Ours is a story of standing up with love and courage for our basic rights. Stand with us and work locally, nationally, and internationally to support the health and rights of all people. Check out Period.org or any of the hundreds of organizations working to ensure equal access to education for all.

Your actions can and do make a difference. We know, because ours did. If tampon cookies can spark a revolution, then the possibilities are endless!

Signed,
The Revolutionary Girls’ Baking Society, baking a difference one bizarre confection at a time.”

You can read the full statement from the girls HERE.

I just love this story so much!

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A Mansplainer on Twitter Proved Just How Little Men Know About Periods and Tampons

The price of tampons and pads adds up over time. Here’s a bodily function that half the population has no choice but to pay for, and the other half doesn’t!

In news that will surprise no one, a man took to the internet to give his opinion on the price of tampons and pads and why women should “stop complaining.”

This man did some hilariously wrong math to determine that women only spend about £20 per year for tampons.

Anyone with a period immediately smelled the bullsh*t.

First of all, SEVEN tampons per cycle?! Only in a dream world, pal.

Second of all, he flubbed the NUMBER OF MONTHS IN A YEAR.

He almost certainly mixed up the period thing with the pregnancy thing.

Anyway, third of all, he also got the average volume of blood per period wrong.

It’s actually impressive to be this wrong!

Seriously I can’t with this guy.

Even well-meaning men are oblivious about periods and tampons.

The only solution is to teach ’em a lesson.

That will shut this guy up forever.

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People Share Embarrassing School Moments When Teachers and Periods Collided

The ladies reading this have been here.

You’re sitting in class, minding your own biz… and then it hits. That time of the month.

A moment of panic? Yes. You ask to use the restroom. Teacher says no.

Wait… what?!

If you’re anything like these 15 students, that day was not a good day.

Let’s take a look…

1. Murdered dead

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2. Huh… guess she’s a great liar!

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3. Yikes!

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4. What the hell is a “no bathroom” rule?!

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5. Ewwwwwww….

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6. Boom. Savage.

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7. Well, you probably ARE an actress…

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8. Payback is a…

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9. Don’t ever do this if you’re a teacher…

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10. A comedy of errors…

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11. What a dick!

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12. HAHAHAHAHA… this one!

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13. Well, that’s good improvisation…

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14. Good!

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15. That’s always an option…

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If you’re a teacher… HOW do you not know how to handle something like this?!

Come on people…

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20 Period Memes That Almost Make the Cramps Worth It

Ok, no. That’s not accurate, because NOTHING can make period cramps worth it. I obviously don’t know firsthand, but I definitely believe my wife when she tells me this every month. Her pain tolerance is WAY higher than mine, so if she’s hurting, I can’t even imagine how bad it must be.

Still, they say laughter is the best medicine, and these hilarious memes will at least ease the pain a little bit.

1. One or the other

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2. It’s all good

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3. They’re having a blast!

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4. He knows what’s up

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5. Why do you think?

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6. Get outta here

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7. Uh oh

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8. Don’t sneeze!

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9. Time to ruin your fun

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10. Here it comes

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11. Stay away

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12. Can’t stop

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13. Mmmmmkay?

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14. The way it goes

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15. Winning

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16. Yes

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17. Floodgates

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18. Shut up!

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19. A sad sight

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20. When it rains…

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Maybe these will make you feel just a little bit better.

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Twitter Mansplainer Proves Men Know Nothing about Periods

As if it wasn’t tough enough out there for the ladies, did you know about the “Period Tax?” It’s not an actual tax (yet, anyway), but rather, a reference to how much the cost of tampons and pads takes out of a woman’s earnings. It’s literally an unavoidable bodily function that half the population has no choice but to pay for!

In news that will surprise no one, a man took to the internet to give his opinion on the price of tampons and pads and why women should “stop complaining.”

This man did some hilariously wrong math to determine that women only spend about £20 per year for tampons.

Anyone with a period immediately smelled the bullsh*t.

First of all, SEVEN tampons per cycle?! Only in a dream world, pal.

Second of all, he flubbed the NUMBER OF MONTHS IN A YEAR.

He almost certainly mixed up the period thing with the pregnancy thing.

Anyway, third of all, he also got the average volume of blood per period wrong.

It’s actually impressive to be this wrong!

Seriously I can’t with this guy.

Even well-meaning men are oblivious about periods and tampons.

The only solution is to teach ’em a lesson.

That will shut this guy up forever.

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Male Athlete Gets Roasted to a Crisp for Comparing Skinned Knees to Period Pain

It’s unbelievable to me that we still need to say this in 2019: Guys, DON’T ever try to tell a woman that her period pains aren’t that serious. Honestly, it takes a real idiot to belittle someone’s pain. I’ve known dudes who could get stabbed in the chest without blinking an eye and yet quivered at the sight of a flu shot. You never know how something affects someone, and their pain is not made any less real just because it doesn’t hurt you the same way.

And yet, there’s always some self-appointed jackass willing to offer his hot take anyway, like this guy.

This man not only claimed that women tend to overreact to their menstrual pain, but he also compared that discomfort to skinned knees, which all of us have experienced at one time or another in our lives. Take a look at his post.

Dude…you’re an idiot. And you know you just opened the floodgates to get your ass handed to you.

Ladies, you may proceed.

What was this guy thinking? Here’s some more feedback for him.

Do you think this guy will ever open his mouth like this again? My money is on “NO.”

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