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does anyone remember in the late 90s and early 2000s when it was considered wildly sexist and misogynist to notice anything along these lines? i'm not saying we should go back but it's interesting to me that this norm appears to have shifted and i have no idea why https://t.co/DvLQyVLAgG
@QiaochuYuan men talking about periods have no skin in the game and are freer to talk nonsense about it. women probably talked about it in private and as they're online more now it's more present. I feel like for them there's this "skin in the game", it's their own bodies being messy or etv
At a glance I don’t see any replies that I think get to the heart of it it used to be that noticing anything about menstrual cycles would get you pattern-matched with the kind of misogynists who’d have this simplistic “hurr durr is she on her period??” dismissal- so the polite thing to do was to avoid talking about it at all that class of guy has been largely evicted from the commons, so the pattern-matching no longer happens/applies
@QiaochuYuan yup this https://t.co/ymd6yRbcEZ
@visakanv yeah so i guess i’m interested in “that class of guy has been largely evicted from the commons” - that clearly happened but how? did they just age out? did the feminist messaging successfully prevent millennials from hopping on this train?