[ SECRET POST #2714 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2714 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

TV characters rarely have to deal with things real people have to deal with for longer than a few episodes. Depending of course on if it's something used as a punchline or some character arc to be overcome or used to write a character/actor off the show.

[diet_poison]

This reminds me that in all kinds of media, if it's set before this past century or so (or in an equivalent setting), I always wonder how female characters deal with periods. Especially if they're doing something on a regular basis that requires them to be in public. It's like periods don't exist.

I suppose depending on what it is they may be able to use some kind of cloth as "pads", but what if it's something really active or that requires specific clothing that that doesn't work well with? :|a

[ariakas]

Hahah there's a reason it's called being on "the rag".

[diet_poison]

Yeah, but if you're doing active things (martial arts, swimming, etc.) is that really practical?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm under the impression women didn't do active things during their period, I mean didn't some traditions force them to sit in a tent and keep away from everyone the entire time?

I also use washable cloth pads and I imagine most women used something similar prior to modern disposable pads/tampons (I actually LOVE cloth pads)

[diet_poison]

yeah but I'm not talking about historical women, I'm talking about fictional women who literally never have a day, even after canonical months of traveling with friends or whatever she's doing, where she says "gotta stay in one place today, got my period". I'd love to see a book where it's dealt with honestly - like how did she handle it? What if she had to swim or climb or make a formal appearance somewhere she couldn't appear to bleed on the carpet? Surely it's relevant at some point.

[(Anonymous)]

We had some washable cloth pads at a museum I worked at- They were from around ~1900.

[(Anonymous)]

I just assumed that most women back then weren't that active. I mean they all wear skirts aswell and that can't be good for a lot of activities either.

[kallanda_lee]

I wear skirts all the time, doesn't really stop me from being active.

[diet_poison]

Right, but I'm not talking about "back then", I'm talking about fictional settings in a pre-industrial setting where women are doing really active things.

[(Anonymous)]

There were plenty of real pre-industrial women who were active, as well. In fact, most women outside of the upper class were active. They had to be.

I'll fully admit that I don't know how they handled their periods, but I really get annoyed when people think that women just sat at home doing nothing until recently. I mean, shit, just for one example, in the middle ages, breweries and inns were run by women.

[tabaqui]

A lot of women used nothing at all, they just bled into their clothes. Some used rags, other used grasses or moss. My mom - born in 1935 - used rags, and told me how gross it was, this stiff and bloody rag between her thighs all day at school, how it stunk, how much she hated it and hoped no one else could smell it.

http://www.mum.org/whatwore.htm

This is interesting - talks about straw spread out on the floor of a mill to catch blood from menstruating women. Also, keep in mind - a lot of women were pregnant or nursing all the time, so they didn't *have* a lot of periods.

[(Anonymous)]

There were plenty of women who were active, and plenty who weren't just going around in skirts all the time.

[(Anonymous)]

Even more than that, apparently women didn't even used to wear underwear? Like in the Regency and Victorian eras (and before as well, I'm assuming, but those are the only two eras I've read about more extensively). So, same with the discharge problem.

*waits for a costuming nerd to come by and tell me I'm wrong, or give more specifics, lol*

[ariakas]

It really wouldn't be the end of the world to just bleed on yourself for a couple of days, I suppose.

[(Anonymous)]

They call that "free-bleeding". Double dare you to google it.

[diet_poison]

Depends on where you are and if there are things you don't want to be bleeding on. If you're adventuring in the wild or whatever it's probably not as much of a big deal.

[(Anonymous)]

I think women did start wearing underwear in the Victorian era, roundabout the time big hoop supported skirts came into fashion. The skirts were notoriously unstable and could flip up in a strong breeze/unexpected fall, so the underwear was to keep you from accidentally flashing people.

[(Anonymous)]

I think they wore sort of bloomers things, but I don't know about actual underwear as we would think of it.

Surely someone on f!s must know this, lol. I've heard the no underwear thing before, but never anything definitive about the history of undergarments and when certain things developed.

[diet_poison]

Well, if you're wearing like twelve petticoats discharge wouldn't be a big deal. But blood still might, unless you're literally sitting down all the time...and even then...

[(Anonymous)]

It's possible they used cloth, same way as diapers back then were made of cloth too.

Though way back then, because of nutrition and other factors, many women weren't actually regular, so it may have been that they just didn't have to deal with it as much as us.

[diet_poison]

I'd be afraid the blood would just soak through the cloth! But with enough layers it might not matter. I'm wondering now if they were washed or thrown away after use...

[(Anonymous)]

People still use clothing as pads. Some women stuff them with cotton so they're more absorbent, but regular folded clothing works. The good thing is that they are reusable, but they're also a pain to wash.

[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

in berserk, casca dealt with having her period