[ SECRET POST #2714 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2714 ⌋

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Comments

[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.

[darkmanifest]

This is a good point. I'm thinking specifically of female shapeshifters who can get pregnant, they run around naked or losing clothes in emergencies all the live long day, but they never have a "aw, shit, there goes my pad" or bemoaning the fact that they can't risk wearing tampons when they might need to transform at any minute. Or just pointing out that they're not human and therefore don't get periods. Periods are verboten in fiction, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't read the books myself yet, so I can't say anything for sure, but I've been told that in the Pellinor books by Alison Croggon, the main character having to deal with being on her period is kind of a regular occurrence...

[philippos42]

There was a sort of fantasy comic series back in the 1980's--I want to say Sisterhood of Steel--that had a scene once where one of the characters was griping about how terrible her periods were.

But I guess it doesn't come up in fiction a lot. It distracts from the main plot, and some writers don't want to mess with it. Some male writers may worry they'll get it wrong.

You're right, though, it seems like it should come up in passing more.

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't get into Berserk, but I really loved that Casca first suffered pretty badly when she got her period during active battle duty, and then later returned to her full impressive form.

[(Anonymous)]

The historical manga Kaze Hikaru deals with this. It's all the more of an issue because the female character is pretending to be a man.

[lentils]

This might not be quite what you're looking for, but Kristin Cashore's Fire mentions that the main character has to have an extra guard with her when she's on her period, because the smell of her blood attracts carnivorous monsters (because she's also a monster - it, ah, makes sense in context). I think she just used rags and/or pieces of cloth too.

[diet_poison]

That sounds like a really interesting story. That a novel?

[lentils]

Yep! It's actually a companion novel to two other books, Graceling and Bitterblue. Technically Graceling came first but you can read Fire without having read the other two (I recommend them all though).

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really think swimming on a period would be too big of a deal unless there's something predatory in the water. Most of the bodies of water in my neck of the woods are so murky I doubt the blood would be noticeable and there usually seems to be a one or two minute gap after showering/bathing where the bleeding lets up long enough to yank some clothes on (although there was that one time I bled on my roommate's white bathmat fml)

Other than that I really don't see the problem with tying a rag on while dry, although that would be interesting to see it mentioned in fiction since all the more 'appealing' aspects of the female form are at times fixated upon creepily.

Also, sometimes there's just a leak.

[(Anonymous)]

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