by Penelope Krömer //
I bleed. Again and again, for over 30 years.
I am not ill, nor am I physically injured.
No, I'm healthy, completely unharmed. I just have my period. Everything is completely normal. Or so I thought.
But suddenly I learn from numerous media reports and social media that periods are not normal or have not been considered normal until now and that this needs to change.
Urgent, loud, vehement.
Artists, menstrual influencers (yes, they actually exist), gender advocates and anyone, anyone, anyone who thinks they have something to say, regardless of the topic, want to remove the taboo from monthly bleeding.
Really?
I didn't realize that my bleeding was a taboo in our society. And I'm talking about Western society. Not cultures where women are considered unclean; especially unclean when they have their period.
When I got my period for the first time at thirteen, I was shocked. My stomach hurt and what was suddenly coming out of me alienated me. I was overcome with disgust. I came out of the toilet in tears and crawled into the bathroom to continue crying. At some point, I called for my mom. You have to know that my family never talked openly about sex and similar topics.
So I had to overcome an inner hurdle to tell my mom what was coming out of me. My mother had to laugh quietly, even laugh encouragingly, and said: "Doll, that's no reason to cry. Be happy, you know that you are healthy and everything is fine with you".
She then told me about a friend's daughter, who was a few years older, who still didn't have her period because she was anorexic. She was so ill that she didn't get her period. But everything is normal and healthy for me.
So the issue was settled, for my mom - and for me too. More and more from month to month. I never felt ill or stigmatized in any way because of my period. I also never felt that dealing with it was taboo - at least in my world of experience.
In other societies this is very much the case, I recognize that too. But here with us?
That's why I look in disbelief at what is currently being said about menstruation on all possible channels. The most normal thing in the world is suddenly being highly publicized with the aim of treating menstruating women (in fact, we are no longer talking about women here either - this is almost tantamount to depersonalization in the wake of the gender craze) accordingly: additional days off during menstruation, discussion about free hygiene products, gender-appropriate design of tampon packaging, the topic is always and everywhere to be discussed and addressed.
This turns something completely normal into something obsessive.
I love being a woman, I'm ok with myself and my body, even with my periods. It comes more or less regularly and will probably continue to do so for a few years if everything runs normally.
Postscript:
For all my love of being a woman, I find menstruation neither artistically valuable nor suitable as table talk. Just as little as all other bodily fluids, no matter what certain influencers and artists may convey.
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These gender maniacs seem to want to gradually snatch everything that makes us human.
I am a woman of the "80s" years, for me it was free from shame to be a woman and to feel very comfortable with myself 5 days a month when
in other ways too. For me, these days were purifying.
I could have talked about it, but I didn't need to. Who talks about normality? But something can be normal and free from shame and
Nevertheless, it falls under intimacy. But all these facets should be flattened by twisting, shifting and devaluing the weightings.
And what another writer, Adrian, says above sums it up very well in my opinion: it's about taking away people's dignity ...
Yes, that's what it's all about and in a perfidious, diabolical way, you could say. And yes, intimacy in particular has a high value and dignity. This
To flatten the human being is to dehumanize him.
Thank you for your contribution.
Penelope wrote it. Adrian, Henry, Ivana and I read it and commented on it. I'm just wondering if and how many others think the same way!
The developments in the USA, Canada and following Europe are frightening!
My opinion.
As a man, I can't contribute too much wisdom on this subject, apart from understanding.
Perhaps one thing, the topic is being carried around like a monstrance by the relevant gender authorities. Presumably other physical realities will also come under their radar after this topic, possibly willies, beer bellies and other male attractions that need to be looked at anew. In connection with this, there will certainly be a greater number of offers of shame redemption, a kind of outing pillory where one can find grace and redemption at the same time.
In my opinion, transhumanism is behind this insane gender agenda and it is becoming more and more apparent in many places. It's about taking away human dignity, and dignity is also about intimacy.
Very good! Thank you!
Hello,
A perfect contribution. You just don't know whether to laugh or cry about the subject. I'm lost for words. It's good that not everyone feels this way.