#like it was just very transparently a passive aggressive way for gym teachers to refuse to excuse students for that reason | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

vamptastic · 4 months

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maybe im being cynical but those pad commercials of preteen girls running around and playing sports and shit infuriated me when i myself was (admittedly briefly) a preteen girl. when the only narrative you ever seen around smth that is genuinely disabling for you a week out of every month is #girlpower, don't let your anemia and nausea and cramps and vertigo stop you from playing soccer! it gets frustrating. obviously there are many other things to be annoyed about wrt pad commercials and i suppose that form of advertising is partially in response to the idea that periods make women inherently weak and incapable but still. shit was annoying. god forbid we learn any useful medical information.

#mostly the fact that i had to watch them in every gym class #like first of all why are we watching an ADVERTISEMENT for educational purposes #second my concern around exercising while menstruating is not a blood stain it's throwing up or passing out #like it was just very transparently a passive aggressive way for gym teachers to refuse to excuse students for that reason #suppose part of why they do it that way is that it'd be legally dicey to explicitly say that students must participate on their period #in any kind of legally binding school policy #hence enforcing the rule unofficially in the most annoying way possible

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