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

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

As somebody said above, it's not that ALL or even MOST of them are, but when they are they tend to complain about it in a way that they seem to be persuaded is manly and yet endearing. It is neither.

Sadly, it generally does at least a tiny bit of what it's intended to do, which is make the woman in question feel nasty, shameful and gross.

Also, a small percentage of those who are NOT squicked about it use it as an excuse to talk about how much they don't mind having sex during their partner's period. Which under those circs is basically another form of sexualising women's bodies: "well, hey, I've got cramps so bad I can't breathe but at least now I know it wouldn't put you, Mr Almost Total Stranger, off fucking me. How ... nice."