Normalizing period stains?

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Why are there so many butthurt men commenting here? You just hate to think about women bleeding and want to pretend it doesnt exist?

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

Why does it specifically bother you that girls don't care if some old PJs have period stains? How does it affect you?

If I am raising a daughter of course it affects me. I am responsible for teaching her how to navigate the world.

Are you raising OPs kid? How does someone elses child, wearing some old PJs with period stains, affect you? Be specific.

I am. It sure why you are reducing Ops post to some old pjs with stains. OPs post was about about normalizing this. Making it normal to have blood stains on your clothes. No where does she say the stain was old, it could have been fresh blood. Nor does she say it was old pjs. But her point was about normalizing stains - not about pjs.

You are raising OPs kid? Bizarre, I bet that's news to her!

And it is being normalized. Not by you, with your imaginary children, but by the children themselves. They don't GAF about your tired old sexist notions. And good for them.

It's being normalized because they have morons like you for parents who failed to teach them basic hygiene. Nothing to be proud of.

Stained PJs =/= bad hygiene.

Don't you know the difference? Yikes, feel bad for you and your kids.

Likewise, I feel bad that you failed your daughter entirely by making her think it's ok to walk around in bloody clothing.

A period stain is not bloody. No one is walking around in clothing with actual blood in it. People are sometimes wearing pajamas or underwear with faint stains from period leaks that happened in the past.

There is nothing unhygienic about wearing stained clothing, it's just unsightly. But that's not really relevant if you are just wearing it at home.

OP NEVER said if it was fresh. For all we know it could have just happend. I guess I was unaware before just how many of you are total lazy slobs at home. This is why I refuse to eat at potluck events.

Do you not understand what a stain is? It is not a fresh free bleeding event. Trying to admonish other posters while you are using made up hyperbole is not a good look. You are so caught up in trying to argue with everyone that you are missing the plot.

Your dumb semantics game is an even worse looks. Of course it's a blood stain when period blood soaks your pants.

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

Why does it specifically bother you that girls don't care if some old PJs have period stains? How does it affect you?

If I am raising a daughter of course it affects me. I am responsible for teaching her how to navigate the world.

Are you raising OPs kid? How does someone elses child, wearing some old PJs with period stains, affect you? Be specific.

I am. It sure why you are reducing Ops post to some old pjs with stains. OPs post was about about normalizing this. Making it normal to have blood stains on your clothes. No where does she say the stain was old, it could have been fresh blood. Nor does she say it was old pjs. But her point was about normalizing stains - not about pjs.

You are raising OPs kid? Bizarre, I bet that's news to her!

And it is being normalized. Not by you, with your imaginary children, but by the children themselves. They don't GAF about your tired old sexist notions. And good for them.

It's being normalized because they have morons like you for parents who failed to teach them basic hygiene. Nothing to be proud of.

Stained PJs =/= bad hygiene.

Don't you know the difference? Yikes, feel bad for you and your kids.

Likewise, I feel bad that you failed your daughter entirely by making her think it's ok to walk around in bloody clothing.

A period stain is not bloody. No one is walking around in clothing with actual blood in it. People are sometimes wearing pajamas or underwear with faint stains from period leaks that happened in the past.

There is nothing unhygienic about wearing stained clothing, it's just unsightly. But that's not really relevant if you are just wearing it at home.

OP NEVER said if it was fresh. For all we know it could have just happend. I guess I was unaware before just how many of you are total lazy slobs at home. This is why I refuse to eat at potluck events.

If it's fresh, it's not a stain. If it's fresh, OP would have said the girl had period blood on her pajamas or period blood on her sheets. She said it was a stain.

Most of us are not confused about this. A stain indicates it's been laundered but that blood that *was* there left a stain behind. It's only a few of you I think who are either confused or seem to think stains are, themselves, dirty.

I don't host potlucks because I know how to host properly, but I am fine with you declining my invites, I don't think we'd get along at all.

What do you call fresh period blood on clothing, genius?

Blood.

No, blood is called blood. How do you describe the visual effect of fresh period blood on clothing?

Period blood is blood, it's just a different kind. I'd still call it blood.

If I saw fresh period blood on someone's clothes, I wouldn't say "you have a stain." I'd say "I think you are bleeding." The stain only comes later if the blood isn't removed promptly.

If someone spilled spaghetti sauce on their shirt, would you immediately say "you have a stain"? No, you would say, "you have some sauce on your shirt."

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

Why does it specifically bother you that girls don't care if some old PJs have period stains? How does it affect you?

If I am raising a daughter of course it affects me. I am responsible for teaching her how to navigate the world.

Are you raising OPs kid? How does someone elses child, wearing some old PJs with period stains, affect you? Be specific.

I am. It sure why you are reducing Ops post to some old pjs with stains. OPs post was about about normalizing this. Making it normal to have blood stains on your clothes. No where does she say the stain was old, it could have been fresh blood. Nor does she say it was old pjs. But her point was about normalizing stains - not about pjs.

You are raising OPs kid? Bizarre, I bet that's news to her!

And it is being normalized. Not by you, with your imaginary children, but by the children themselves. They don't GAF about your tired old sexist notions. And good for them.

It's being normalized because they have morons like you for parents who failed to teach them basic hygiene. Nothing to be proud of.

Stained PJs =/= bad hygiene.

Don't you know the difference? Yikes, feel bad for you and your kids.

Likewise, I feel bad that you failed your daughter entirely by making her think it's ok to walk around in bloody clothing.

A period stain is not bloody. No one is walking around in clothing with actual blood in it. People are sometimes wearing pajamas or underwear with faint stains from period leaks that happened in the past.

There is nothing unhygienic about wearing stained clothing, it's just unsightly. But that's not really relevant if you are just wearing it at home.

OP NEVER said if it was fresh. For all we know it could have just happend. I guess I was unaware before just how many of you are total lazy slobs at home. This is why I refuse to eat at potluck events.

If it's fresh, it's not a stain. If it's fresh, OP would have said the girl had period blood on her pajamas or period blood on her sheets. She said it was a stain.

Most of us are not confused about this. A stain indicates it's been laundered but that blood that *was* there left a stain behind. It's only a few of you I think who are either confused or seem to think stains are, themselves, dirty.

I don't host potlucks because I know how to host properly, but I am fine with you declining my invites, I don't think we'd get along at all.

What do you call fresh period blood on clothing, genius?

Blood.

No, blood is called blood. How do you describe the visual effect of fresh period blood on clothing?

You're really going off on this theory that you've made up lol. You bored today? Reddit too slow?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many butthurt men commenting here? You just hate to think about women bleeding and want to pretend it doesnt exist?

Who are you talking about? Are you incapable of imagining that women might feel differently than you do? And that we don't feel the need to take on dumb causes such as this to prove how advanced and free we are.

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

Why does it specifically bother you that girls don't care if some old PJs have period stains? How does it affect you?

If I am raising a daughter of course it affects me. I am responsible for teaching her how to navigate the world.

Are you raising OPs kid? How does someone elses child, wearing some old PJs with period stains, affect you? Be specific.

I am. It sure why you are reducing Ops post to some old pjs with stains. OPs post was about about normalizing this. Making it normal to have blood stains on your clothes. No where does she say the stain was old, it could have been fresh blood. Nor does she say it was old pjs. But her point was about normalizing stains - not about pjs.

You are raising OPs kid? Bizarre, I bet that's news to her!

And it is being normalized. Not by you, with your imaginary children, but by the children themselves. They don't GAF about your tired old sexist notions. And good for them.

It's being normalized because they have morons like you for parents who failed to teach them basic hygiene. Nothing to be proud of.

Stained PJs =/= bad hygiene.

Don't you know the difference? Yikes, feel bad for you and your kids.

Likewise, I feel bad that you failed your daughter entirely by making her think it's ok to walk around in bloody clothing.

A period stain is not bloody. No one is walking around in clothing with actual blood in it. People are sometimes wearing pajamas or underwear with faint stains from period leaks that happened in the past.

There is nothing unhygienic about wearing stained clothing, it's just unsightly. But that's not really relevant if you are just wearing it at home.

OP NEVER said if it was fresh. For all we know it could have just happend. I guess I was unaware before just how many of you are total lazy slobs at home. This is why I refuse to eat at potluck events.

If it's fresh, it's not a stain. If it's fresh, OP would have said the girl had period blood on her pajamas or period blood on her sheets. She said it was a stain.

Most of us are not confused about this. A stain indicates it's been laundered but that blood that *was* there left a stain behind. It's only a few of you I think who are either confused or seem to think stains are, themselves, dirty.

I don't host potlucks because I know how to host properly, but I am fine with you declining my invites, I don't think we'd get along at all.

What do you call fresh period blood on clothing, genius?

Blood.

No, blood is called blood. How do you describe the visual effect of fresh period blood on clothing?

You're really going off on this theory that you've made up lol. You bored today? Reddit too slow?

Maybe you should take your stupidity to reddit

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

Why does it specifically bother you that girls don't care if some old PJs have period stains? How does it affect you?

If I am raising a daughter of course it affects me. I am responsible for teaching her how to navigate the world.

Are you raising OPs kid? How does someone elses child, wearing some old PJs with period stains, affect you? Be specific.

I am. It sure why you are reducing Ops post to some old pjs with stains. OPs post was about about normalizing this. Making it normal to have blood stains on your clothes. No where does she say the stain was old, it could have been fresh blood. Nor does she say it was old pjs. But her point was about normalizing stains - not about pjs.

You are raising OPs kid? Bizarre, I bet that's news to her!

And it is being normalized. Not by you, with your imaginary children, but by the children themselves. They don't GAF about your tired old sexist notions. And good for them.

It's being normalized because they have morons like you for parents who failed to teach them basic hygiene. Nothing to be proud of.

Stained PJs =/= bad hygiene.

Don't you know the difference? Yikes, feel bad for you and your kids.

Likewise, I feel bad that you failed your daughter entirely by making her think it's ok to walk around in bloody clothing.

A period stain is not bloody. No one is walking around in clothing with actual blood in it. People are sometimes wearing pajamas or underwear with faint stains from period leaks that happened in the past.

There is nothing unhygienic about wearing stained clothing, it's just unsightly. But that's not really relevant if you are just wearing it at home.

OP NEVER said if it was fresh. For all we know it could have just happend. I guess I was unaware before just how many of you are total lazy slobs at home. This is why I refuse to eat at potluck events.

If it's fresh, it's not a stain. If it's fresh, OP would have said the girl had period blood on her pajamas or period blood on her sheets. She said it was a stain.

Most of us are not confused about this. A stain indicates it's been laundered but that blood that *was* there left a stain behind. It's only a few of you I think who are either confused or seem to think stains are, themselves, dirty.

I don't host potlucks because I know how to host properly, but I am fine with you declining my invites, I don't think we'd get along at all.

What do you call fresh period blood on clothing, genius?

Blood.

No, blood is called blood. How do you describe the visual effect of fresh period blood on clothing?

Period blood is blood, it's just a different kind. I'd still call it blood.

If I saw fresh period blood on someone's clothes, I wouldn't say "you have a stain." I'd say "I think you are bleeding." The stain only comes later if the blood isn't removed promptly.

If someone spilled spaghetti sauce on their shirt, would you immediately say "you have a stain"? No, you would say, "you have some sauce on your shirt."

Got it, so 10 minutes later it's all of a sudden a stain! Glad we got that out of the way.

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

We're talking about girls who are walking around their own homes in clothes with some period stains.

The comparison to "pee and poop stains" doesn't make sense to me. Those don't stain the way period blood does. I guarantee you there are tons of people walking around right now in clothes they got pee or even poop on at some point, and then washed. They don't have visible stains because those substances don't leave visible stains on the exterior or your clothes after washing. I don't have boys but many of my friends do and they've told me all about their battles with streaky underwear and getting their sons to wipe properly. None of them are throwing this underwear out -- it's just being washed and reworn despite the poor hygiene. And these boys aren't just wearing it around their own home, they are wearing it all the time.

So tell me again why a girl with a period blood stain (a stain, not actually blood) on some pajamas she's wearing at home is an unacceptable situation that must be addressed?

Period blood doesn’t stain either unless you leave it to set rather than soaking it. I find it stranger that people don’t take off and soak their clothes / sheets if they get blood on three, they just leave them to dry and stain.

It depends on when you discover it. Teenage girls are more likely to get stains because they have irregular cycles and less experience with preventing or addressing stains. I don't find it surprising at all that a teen might have a period stain on a pair of pajamas or on her sheets, and not have known how to remove it completely.

I will also note that there are certain fabrics where you are never going to get rid of the faint stain even if you soak it. This is why sometimes I have to give up on a white t-shirt and just replace it, because certain stains on a fabric like that are never going to look like new, especially if you don't catch them and treat immediately. White sheets or light colored pajama pants are the same. Freaking out that someone has a very faint blood stain on a white sheet they use on their own bed (it's not a hotel) is really precious.

Walking around house in stained pants with company there is not at all the same as a faint stain on a bed sheet.

"Company" in this case = a teenage brothers friend who is spending the night. You aren't hosting a dignitary or even an elderly relative here. Sibling's friends don't really count as company IMO. If those boys are upset by this they are welcome to not spend the night in a house where a teen girl lives, since apparently it's just too much for them.

I think OP is more upset that "boys may have seen a period related notion" rather than her daughter being a slob. She discusses how "mortifying" it would be, like back in the day you'd be embarrassed that anyone even knew you were on your period. It just isn't the same anymore.

PP here and I agree, this is the implication -- that it is somehow upsetting or weird for a boy to see evidence of a girl having menstruated. I think it's actually healthy for boys to know and acclimatize to the idea that their female peers menstruate. It's not a big deal and a teenage boy who is scandalized by it has some maturing to do.

So do a lot of posters in this thread, apparently.

Absolutely! Some of the pps are likely the men who won't grab a box of tampons at the grocery store. Or married to them.

100%. These boards always have a low level of incels and other men who patrol Recent Topics for any thread where a woman might be existing outside their narrow expectations. Maybe it's Brunch Granny, maybe it's Tucker Carlson, maybe it's just someone who thinks the same way. It freaks them out when women are human or do things not for the express pleasure or satisfaction of men. Periods are, of course, terrifying, and to be denied and hidden at all costs.

I'm just glad the younger generation isn't falling for that sh*t. These nasty sexist views are falling off, and I am here for it!

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

Why does it specifically bother you that girls don't care if some old PJs have period stains? How does it affect you?

If I am raising a daughter of course it affects me. I am responsible for teaching her how to navigate the world.

Are you raising OPs kid? How does someone elses child, wearing some old PJs with period stains, affect you? Be specific.

I am. It sure why you are reducing Ops post to some old pjs with stains. OPs post was about about normalizing this. Making it normal to have blood stains on your clothes. No where does she say the stain was old, it could have been fresh blood. Nor does she say it was old pjs. But her point was about normalizing stains - not about pjs.

You are raising OPs kid? Bizarre, I bet that's news to her!

And it is being normalized. Not by you, with your imaginary children, but by the children themselves. They don't GAF about your tired old sexist notions. And good for them.

It's being normalized because they have morons like you for parents who failed to teach them basic hygiene. Nothing to be proud of.

Stained PJs =/= bad hygiene.

Don't you know the difference? Yikes, feel bad for you and your kids.

Likewise, I feel bad that you failed your daughter entirely by making her think it's ok to walk around in bloody clothing.

A period stain is not bloody. No one is walking around in clothing with actual blood in it. People are sometimes wearing pajamas or underwear with faint stains from period leaks that happened in the past.

There is nothing unhygienic about wearing stained clothing, it's just unsightly. But that's not really relevant if you are just wearing it at home.

OP NEVER said if it was fresh. For all we know it could have just happend. I guess I was unaware before just how many of you are total lazy slobs at home. This is why I refuse to eat at potluck events.

If it's fresh, it's not a stain. If it's fresh, OP would have said the girl had period blood on her pajamas or period blood on her sheets. She said it was a stain.

Most of us are not confused about this. A stain indicates it's been laundered but that blood that *was* there left a stain behind. It's only a few of you I think who are either confused or seem to think stains are, themselves, dirty.

I don't host potlucks because I know how to host properly, but I am fine with you declining my invites, I don't think we'd get along at all.

What do you call fresh period blood on clothing, genius?

Blood.

No, blood is called blood. How do you describe the visual effect of fresh period blood on clothing?

Period blood is blood, it's just a different kind. I'd still call it blood.

If I saw fresh period blood on someone's clothes, I wouldn't say "you have a stain." I'd say "I think you are bleeding." The stain only comes later if the blood isn't removed promptly.

If someone spilled spaghetti sauce on their shirt, would you immediately say "you have a stain"? No, you would say, "you have some sauce on your shirt."

So weird that this pp doesn't understand what a "stain" is.

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

We're talking about girls who are walking around their own homes in clothes with some period stains.

The comparison to "pee and poop stains" doesn't make sense to me. Those don't stain the way period blood does. I guarantee you there are tons of people walking around right now in clothes they got pee or even poop on at some point, and then washed. They don't have visible stains because those substances don't leave visible stains on the exterior or your clothes after washing. I don't have boys but many of my friends do and they've told me all about their battles with streaky underwear and getting their sons to wipe properly. None of them are throwing this underwear out -- it's just being washed and reworn despite the poor hygiene. And these boys aren't just wearing it around their own home, they are wearing it all the time.

So tell me again why a girl with a period blood stain (a stain, not actually blood) on some pajamas she's wearing at home is an unacceptable situation that must be addressed?

Period blood doesn’t stain either unless you leave it to set rather than soaking it. I find it stranger that people don’t take off and soak their clothes / sheets if they get blood on three, they just leave them to dry and stain.

It depends on when you discover it. Teenage girls are more likely to get stains because they have irregular cycles and less experience with preventing or addressing stains. I don't find it surprising at all that a teen might have a period stain on a pair of pajamas or on her sheets, and not have known how to remove it completely.

I will also note that there are certain fabrics where you are never going to get rid of the faint stain even if you soak it. This is why sometimes I have to give up on a white t-shirt and just replace it, because certain stains on a fabric like that are never going to look like new, especially if you don't catch them and treat immediately. White sheets or light colored pajama pants are the same. Freaking out that someone has a very faint blood stain on a white sheet they use on their own bed (it's not a hotel) is really precious.

Walking around house in stained pants with company there is not at all the same as a faint stain on a bed sheet.

"Company" in this case = a teenage brothers friend who is spending the night. You aren't hosting a dignitary or even an elderly relative here. Sibling's friends don't really count as company IMO. If those boys are upset by this they are welcome to not spend the night in a house where a teen girl lives, since apparently it's just too much for them.

I think OP is more upset that "boys may have seen a period related notion" rather than her daughter being a slob. She discusses how "mortifying" it would be, like back in the day you'd be embarrassed that anyone even knew you were on your period. It just isn't the same anymore.

PP here and I agree, this is the implication -- that it is somehow upsetting or weird for a boy to see evidence of a girl having menstruated. I think it's actually healthy for boys to know and acclimatize to the idea that their female peers menstruate. It's not a big deal and a teenage boy who is scandalized by it has some maturing to do.

So do a lot of posters in this thread, apparently.

Absolutely! Some of the pps are likely the men who won't grab a box of tampons at the grocery store. Or married to them.

100%. These boards always have a low level of incels and other men who patrol Recent Topics for any thread where a woman might be existing outside their narrow expectations. Maybe it's Brunch Granny, maybe it's Tucker Carlson, maybe it's just someone who thinks the same way. It freaks them out when women are human or do things not for the express pleasure or satisfaction of men. Periods are, of course, terrifying, and to be denied and hidden at all costs.

I'm just glad the younger generation isn't falling for that sh*t. These nasty sexist views are falling off, and I am here for it!

Yeah, totally sexist to learn how to properly wash your clothes. THE HORRORS!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

Why does it specifically bother you that girls don't care if some old PJs have period stains? How does it affect you?

If I am raising a daughter of course it affects me. I am responsible for teaching her how to navigate the world.

Are you raising OPs kid? How does someone elses child, wearing some old PJs with period stains, affect you? Be specific.

I am. It sure why you are reducing Ops post to some old pjs with stains. OPs post was about about normalizing this. Making it normal to have blood stains on your clothes. No where does she say the stain was old, it could have been fresh blood. Nor does she say it was old pjs. But her point was about normalizing stains - not about pjs.

You are raising OPs kid? Bizarre, I bet that's news to her!

And it is being normalized. Not by you, with your imaginary children, but by the children themselves. They don't GAF about your tired old sexist notions. And good for them.

It's being normalized because they have morons like you for parents who failed to teach them basic hygiene. Nothing to be proud of.

Stained PJs =/= bad hygiene.

Don't you know the difference? Yikes, feel bad for you and your kids.

Likewise, I feel bad that you failed your daughter entirely by making her think it's ok to walk around in bloody clothing.

A period stain is not bloody. No one is walking around in clothing with actual blood in it. People are sometimes wearing pajamas or underwear with faint stains from period leaks that happened in the past.

There is nothing unhygienic about wearing stained clothing, it's just unsightly. But that's not really relevant if you are just wearing it at home.

OP NEVER said if it was fresh. For all we know it could have just happend. I guess I was unaware before just how many of you are total lazy slobs at home. This is why I refuse to eat at potluck events.

If it's fresh, it's not a stain. If it's fresh, OP would have said the girl had period blood on her pajamas or period blood on her sheets. She said it was a stain.

Most of us are not confused about this. A stain indicates it's been laundered but that blood that *was* there left a stain behind. It's only a few of you I think who are either confused or seem to think stains are, themselves, dirty.

I don't host potlucks because I know how to host properly, but I am fine with you declining my invites, I don't think we'd get along at all.

What do you call fresh period blood on clothing, genius?

Blood.

No, blood is called blood. How do you describe the visual effect of fresh period blood on clothing?

You're really going off on this theory that you've made up lol. You bored today? Reddit too slow?

Maybe you should take your stupidity to reddit

Oooh big insult from the anon user! Big hurt!

Calling someone stupid because they dont agree with you says more about you.

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

We're talking about girls who are walking around their own homes in clothes with some period stains.

The comparison to "pee and poop stains" doesn't make sense to me. Those don't stain the way period blood does. I guarantee you there are tons of people walking around right now in clothes they got pee or even poop on at some point, and then washed. They don't have visible stains because those substances don't leave visible stains on the exterior or your clothes after washing. I don't have boys but many of my friends do and they've told me all about their battles with streaky underwear and getting their sons to wipe properly. None of them are throwing this underwear out -- it's just being washed and reworn despite the poor hygiene. And these boys aren't just wearing it around their own home, they are wearing it all the time.

So tell me again why a girl with a period blood stain (a stain, not actually blood) on some pajamas she's wearing at home is an unacceptable situation that must be addressed?

Period blood doesn’t stain either unless you leave it to set rather than soaking it. I find it stranger that people don’t take off and soak their clothes / sheets if they get blood on three, they just leave them to dry and stain.

It depends on when you discover it. Teenage girls are more likely to get stains because they have irregular cycles and less experience with preventing or addressing stains. I don't find it surprising at all that a teen might have a period stain on a pair of pajamas or on her sheets, and not have known how to remove it completely.

I will also note that there are certain fabrics where you are never going to get rid of the faint stain even if you soak it. This is why sometimes I have to give up on a white t-shirt and just replace it, because certain stains on a fabric like that are never going to look like new, especially if you don't catch them and treat immediately. White sheets or light colored pajama pants are the same. Freaking out that someone has a very faint blood stain on a white sheet they use on their own bed (it's not a hotel) is really precious.

Walking around house in stained pants with company there is not at all the same as a faint stain on a bed sheet.

"Company" in this case = a teenage brothers friend who is spending the night. You aren't hosting a dignitary or even an elderly relative here. Sibling's friends don't really count as company IMO. If those boys are upset by this they are welcome to not spend the night in a house where a teen girl lives, since apparently it's just too much for them.

I think OP is more upset that "boys may have seen a period related notion" rather than her daughter being a slob. She discusses how "mortifying" it would be, like back in the day you'd be embarrassed that anyone even knew you were on your period. It just isn't the same anymore.

PP here and I agree, this is the implication -- that it is somehow upsetting or weird for a boy to see evidence of a girl having menstruated. I think it's actually healthy for boys to know and acclimatize to the idea that their female peers menstruate. It's not a big deal and a teenage boy who is scandalized by it has some maturing to do.

So do a lot of posters in this thread, apparently.

Absolutely! Some of the pps are likely the men who won't grab a box of tampons at the grocery store. Or married to them.

100%. These boards always have a low level of incels and other men who patrol Recent Topics for any thread where a woman might be existing outside their narrow expectations. Maybe it's Brunch Granny, maybe it's Tucker Carlson, maybe it's just someone who thinks the same way. It freaks them out when women are human or do things not for the express pleasure or satisfaction of men. Periods are, of course, terrifying, and to be denied and hidden at all costs.

I'm just glad the younger generation isn't falling for that sh*t. These nasty sexist views are falling off, and I am here for it!

Yeah, totally sexist to learn how to properly wash your clothes. THE HORRORS!!!!!!!!

You seem to be really worked up and triggered by this topic. Touch grass. The girls are fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many butthurt men commenting here? You just hate to think about women bleeding and want to pretend it doesnt exist?

Who are you talking about? Are you incapable of imagining that women might feel differently than you do? And that we don't feel the need to take on dumb causes such as this to prove how advanced and free we are.

What kind of dumb cause? Not being ashamed of your growing, developing body?

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

We're talking about girls who are walking around their own homes in clothes with some period stains.

The comparison to "pee and poop stains" doesn't make sense to me. Those don't stain the way period blood does. I guarantee you there are tons of people walking around right now in clothes they got pee or even poop on at some point, and then washed. They don't have visible stains because those substances don't leave visible stains on the exterior or your clothes after washing. I don't have boys but many of my friends do and they've told me all about their battles with streaky underwear and getting their sons to wipe properly. None of them are throwing this underwear out -- it's just being washed and reworn despite the poor hygiene. And these boys aren't just wearing it around their own home, they are wearing it all the time.

So tell me again why a girl with a period blood stain (a stain, not actually blood) on some pajamas she's wearing at home is an unacceptable situation that must be addressed?

Period blood doesn’t stain either unless you leave it to set rather than soaking it. I find it stranger that people don’t take off and soak their clothes / sheets if they get blood on three, they just leave them to dry and stain.

It depends on when you discover it. Teenage girls are more likely to get stains because they have irregular cycles and less experience with preventing or addressing stains. I don't find it surprising at all that a teen might have a period stain on a pair of pajamas or on her sheets, and not have known how to remove it completely.

I will also note that there are certain fabrics where you are never going to get rid of the faint stain even if you soak it. This is why sometimes I have to give up on a white t-shirt and just replace it, because certain stains on a fabric like that are never going to look like new, especially if you don't catch them and treat immediately. White sheets or light colored pajama pants are the same. Freaking out that someone has a very faint blood stain on a white sheet they use on their own bed (it's not a hotel) is really precious.

Walking around house in stained pants with company there is not at all the same as a faint stain on a bed sheet.

"Company" in this case = a teenage brothers friend who is spending the night. You aren't hosting a dignitary or even an elderly relative here. Sibling's friends don't really count as company IMO. If those boys are upset by this they are welcome to not spend the night in a house where a teen girl lives, since apparently it's just too much for them.

I think OP is more upset that "boys may have seen a period related notion" rather than her daughter being a slob. She discusses how "mortifying" it would be, like back in the day you'd be embarrassed that anyone even knew you were on your period. It just isn't the same anymore.

PP here and I agree, this is the implication -- that it is somehow upsetting or weird for a boy to see evidence of a girl having menstruated. I think it's actually healthy for boys to know and acclimatize to the idea that their female peers menstruate. It's not a big deal and a teenage boy who is scandalized by it has some maturing to do.

So do a lot of posters in this thread, apparently.

Absolutely! Some of the pps are likely the men who won't grab a box of tampons at the grocery store. Or married to them.

100%. These boards always have a low level of incels and other men who patrol Recent Topics for any thread where a woman might be existing outside their narrow expectations. Maybe it's Brunch Granny, maybe it's Tucker Carlson, maybe it's just someone who thinks the same way. It freaks them out when women are human or do things not for the express pleasure or satisfaction of men. Periods are, of course, terrifying, and to be denied and hidden at all costs.

I'm just glad the younger generation isn't falling for that sh*t. These nasty sexist views are falling off, and I am here for it!

Yeah, totally sexist to learn how to properly wash your clothes. THE HORRORS!!!!!!!!

You seem to be really worked up and triggered by this topic. Touch grass. The girls are fine.

I'm going to tell my son it's totally cool to walk around with shit stains on his pants. TOTAL PROGRESS.

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Anonymous wrote:I love this new generation. I love that they aren't saddled with the weight of all the sexist expectations that I grew up with.

Even the weirdo upset about having a pad simply sitting on a desk and getting bent out of shape about it - I'm so glad they don't have to deal with those losers!

I love that they are living for themselves and embracing their bodies and not letting people tell them they are defective or gross or dirty for perfectly natural things.

You're lumping it all into one thing and it's not. I love that girls are not hiding their pads and tampons and dont feel shamed about a perfectly natural thing. Period stains happen. They are normal. It's not normal to walk around with blood stains, though. Clean that shit up.

It's also not ok to walk around with pee stains or poop stains. All natural things.

We're talking about girls who are walking around their own homes in clothes with some period stains.

The comparison to "pee and poop stains" doesn't make sense to me. Those don't stain the way period blood does. I guarantee you there are tons of people walking around right now in clothes they got pee or even poop on at some point, and then washed. They don't have visible stains because those substances don't leave visible stains on the exterior or your clothes after washing. I don't have boys but many of my friends do and they've told me all about their battles with streaky underwear and getting their sons to wipe properly. None of them are throwing this underwear out -- it's just being washed and reworn despite the poor hygiene. And these boys aren't just wearing it around their own home, they are wearing it all the time.

So tell me again why a girl with a period blood stain (a stain, not actually blood) on some pajamas she's wearing at home is an unacceptable situation that must be addressed?

Period blood doesn’t stain either unless you leave it to set rather than soaking it. I find it stranger that people don’t take off and soak their clothes / sheets if they get blood on three, they just leave them to dry and stain.

It depends on when you discover it. Teenage girls are more likely to get stains because they have irregular cycles and less experience with preventing or addressing stains. I don't find it surprising at all that a teen might have a period stain on a pair of pajamas or on her sheets, and not have known how to remove it completely.

I will also note that there are certain fabrics where you are never going to get rid of the faint stain even if you soak it. This is why sometimes I have to give up on a white t-shirt and just replace it, because certain stains on a fabric like that are never going to look like new, especially if you don't catch them and treat immediately. White sheets or light colored pajama pants are the same. Freaking out that someone has a very faint blood stain on a white sheet they use on their own bed (it's not a hotel) is really precious.

Walking around house in stained pants with company there is not at all the same as a faint stain on a bed sheet.

"Company" in this case = a teenage brothers friend who is spending the night. You aren't hosting a dignitary or even an elderly relative here. Sibling's friends don't really count as company IMO. If those boys are upset by this they are welcome to not spend the night in a house where a teen girl lives, since apparently it's just too much for them.

I think OP is more upset that "boys may have seen a period related notion" rather than her daughter being a slob. She discusses how "mortifying" it would be, like back in the day you'd be embarrassed that anyone even knew you were on your period. It just isn't the same anymore.

PP here and I agree, this is the implication -- that it is somehow upsetting or weird for a boy to see evidence of a girl having menstruated. I think it's actually healthy for boys to know and acclimatize to the idea that their female peers menstruate. It's not a big deal and a teenage boy who is scandalized by it has some maturing to do.

So do a lot of posters in this thread, apparently.

Absolutely! Some of the pps are likely the men who won't grab a box of tampons at the grocery store. Or married to them.

100%. These boards always have a low level of incels and other men who patrol Recent Topics for any thread where a woman might be existing outside their narrow expectations. Maybe it's Brunch Granny, maybe it's Tucker Carlson, maybe it's just someone who thinks the same way. It freaks them out when women are human or do things not for the express pleasure or satisfaction of men. Periods are, of course, terrifying, and to be denied and hidden at all costs.

I'm just glad the younger generation isn't falling for that sh*t. These nasty sexist views are falling off, and I am here for it!

Yeah, totally sexist to learn how to properly wash your clothes. THE HORRORS!!!!!!!!

You seem to be really worked up and triggered by this topic. Touch grass. The girls are fine.

I'm going to tell my son it's totally cool to walk around with shit stains on his pants. TOTAL PROGRESS.

He probably already does.