most “protect the children” campaigns come with the implication that what’s best for children is 1950s white christian nuclear families and rigid adherence to the status quo, and having been a children I can definitively say that is very very incorrect
Posting this here because I CANNOT have this in my fucking camera roll without my family seeing it, and I DO NOT want to explain why I have this screenshot.
To prove how much of an incredible dumbass I am, let me tell about the time last year (summer 2020), people were saying that a guy named Phil joined the DSMP, and me being a Dan and Phil veteran, I was immediately like, "Wait, Phil Lester joined the smp?" I then I looked up who Philza was and I was just like "Oh, I was completely wrong."
Hold up don't Dan and Phil actually know Wilbur Soot-
If I had a nickel for every time I saw someone compare Schlatt to Captain Quint, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
My mother also talked about periods to my brothers.
When I first got mine I had terrible cramps. Crippling cramps. I once was camping with my family and a few of my big brother’s friends when my period came. My cramps were so bad that my mom gave me a full pain killer ( I was 13 and before that she only gave me pills cut in half).
I literally laid down on my parents’ air mattress and cried in pain for an hour before the pill kicked in.
My brothers friend came in to the big tent and I was just curled up and sobbing. Now, I was quite the tomboy and was known to rough house with my brothers and their friends and made sure I wasnt seen as just “a little girl.” So my brother’s friend was confused to see me openly weeping in the fetal position (seriously, these were the worst cramps I have had in my life. My vision went white). He asked what was wrong with me.
My big brother stood up immediately and suggested a nice long hike. During this hike I am sure he had a pretty awkward conversation with his friend explaining menstrual cramps, because when they got back the pain pill had (mostly) kicked in and I was sitting up at a table when my brother’s friend sheepishly asked me if I was feeling better. I said I was better, and he said good.
When we made s'mores that night my brother and his friend kept me well supplied with chocolate.
Making sure sons know as much about periods and menstruation as daughters makes them better brothers, better sons better fathers, and better men. A man that understands a period will not lightly accuse a woman of “being on her period” if the woman is in an argument.
Raise better sons Teach them about normal bodily functions.
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