This hilarious video has one message: Stop talking in code about menstruation
I have "a visit from Aunt Flo." I'm "on my days." "It's that time of the month again."
If you're a woman, you know exactly what we're talking about. And if you're a man, well, you know exactly what we're talking about, too.
Women around the world have invented elaborate euphemisms that enable them to talk about menstruation without actually using the "m" word.
And that is just plain nonsense, according to the Marsa Sexual Health Center in Lebanon, which has just released this hilarious video that cuts through the universal secrecy, myths and coded language around menstruation and shows it for what it is: a natural part of being a woman.
Don't jump, don't eat ice cream, don't shower for three days, don't wear white and for goodness sake don't let anyone else know you are bleeding. These are just a few examples of the advice given by well-intentioned women to the young girl who has just got her first period.
As this video demonstrates, there is a ridiculous reluctance to talk frankly about menstruation. And it's a problem that spans across countries, religions and cultures.
As we’ve seen from the response to works of art that depict women as they really are — yesiree, that’s what a vagina actually looks like — it's clear that many people around the world are uncomfortable and even disgusted by the female body and its bloody cycle.
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This collective horror has given rise to offensive expressions such as “I don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die” and has resulted in near universal silence.
And if you think the United States is more enlightened than other countries, just remember it was Instagram that censored this photo of a menstruating woman with small patches of blood on her sweatpants and sheets.
Let's hope videos such as Marsa's make people everywhere realize that it's time we stopped freaking out over a little bit of blood.