A Question

[pecunium]

I have seen, as I travel to and fro in the net I keep seeing something I don't understand.

Women telling men they really don't want to look behind the curtain at TMI posts about menstruation.

Now, I understand warning people about TMI posts. Descriptions of the details of surgeries, accidents and all manner of gruesome goings on are not for everyone.

What I don't understand is why that single topic gets that warning.

Are men, as a class, that easily squicked?

Comments

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Agreed with all of the above but would add: men tend to be disproportionately squicked by their own plumbing, hence the near impossibility of getting men to go for rectal and tecticle examinations, and while most surgeons are men, men are also far more likely to faint at the sight of blood/insides on an operating table than are women (although battle fuelled adrenaline has long been a cure-all). This may be *why* young men often harrass and dare each other into violence.