He’s wondering if it’s an example of hyperbole, as opposed to outright fabrication.
I have no doubt the card makers and party planners already have some plans for this. They are always looking to find a new holiday or event to make a dollar off of.
There was one episode of “Nip/Tuck” where the daughter has a “Princes Menses” party.
Yes, when I was a teenager, I would have felt very embarrassed and angry if my mom had tried to do that to me. To me, that is just as bad as if some overzealous father gave his son some pearl cuff links to celebrate the first time the dad noticed the boy’s bedsheets were crusty with semen. Don’t humiliate the poor kid by turning a private body function into a public spectacle.
(For the record, I learned about menstruation from reading health textbooks because I was that type of kid who loves to read and loves to learn. I didn’t want my mom involved in it at all. She didn’t even know about it for months after I had started. When she found out, she wanted to talk about it, but I didn’t want to and shut her down).
Just like ejaculation: Yes, it is a normal body function and nothing to be ashamed of, but it’s also not something you want to share with your parents or celebrate in any sort of public manner.
That video was hilarious.
“You’re missing the Vagician!”
Isn’t a bat-mitzvah basically the same deal? :dubious:
I have heard of Period/Coming of Age celebrations for girls, but have never participated in one. My one and only girl child came of age before all this new fangled stuff was invented!
But I think it’s a great idea! Instead of girls feeling shame and embarrassment about having their first period, a celebration to welcome this new phase of their life is brilliant! To compare menstruation with ‘nocturnal emissions’ is really shitty, and just adds to the ever present misogyny that pervades our western social life.
For fuck’s sake’s…if a girl can’t celebrate her formal admission to womanhood with a bunch of other new-women and older women, what CAN she celebrate?
Sounds like a firmly held conviction that should require no explanation. But you’re entirely welcome to give one.
Resolved: men’s reproductive fluids are on the “shit” side of the bodily waste spectrum, and comparing them to women’s reproductive fluids is misogynist.
Now that I’ve tried to turn this thread into yet another Godamn dreary MRA vs Femminism pointless arguments, and I always contend that the main flaw in Feminism is Consumerism, I’ll point out this: how much money was effortlessly being spent on the menarch party? The party itself is weird and sweet and ultimately positive, but why the implication that such things are dependent on disposable income? And what is implied by the line “and then Dad showed up?” Because Dad is as likely as not to not live there. Men and our shitty sperm are disposable too.
If your little girl wants everyone and their mama to know they are know menstrual, by all means throw them the biggest party you can afford. But don’t assume girls are going to want a party. I would have been mortified by one. What’s going on with my vagina is my business, not the community’s.
Plus, I was a young 11-year-old when I started. I wasn’t anyone’s “woman”. If my mother had tried to celebrate my womanhood, I would have been grief-stricken because I really liked being a kid. Some girls started as young as nine. At least boys are teenagers when they are due for their bar mitzvahs.
I thought the entire point of feminine hygiene products was to avoid painting the town red.
How is celebrating one milestone associated with bodily fluids any different from celebrating another?
Personally seems weird to me to celebrate something you didn’t actually do…
It’s a milestone, and I do feel it should be recognized - PRIVATELY!!
I just thought rubies were a bit too literal to be appreciated by the child. (Pearls - great comparison! LOL! ::retch:: ))
Is she going to be an equal opportunity parent and buy some pearl cufflinks to be given to her son some day?
We didn’t have a party when I got my period, but my mom was able to share in my excitement and that was really nice. I hated being a child–I wanted to be an adult ASAP. I was really excited when I got my first period, even though my mom told me I’d hate it. And not that I liked it, but I saw it as evidence that my body was finally maturing and I’d be able to get out of their house and start my own life eventually.
That commercial hit me really wrong and I don’t think it’s funny at all. Even the title “girl fakes her period and gets what she deserves”
Aaa why so much shame? Why is that mom so mean about the faking her period? Why does she care? It’s not even like the daughter was trying to trick HER about having her period, she found the maxipad in the trash and brought it out to ask her daughter about …AAAAAAAA!
It’s like instead of purging the historical shame around menstruation they’re just repackaging the shame to get laughs and sell a period starter kit. Blechh!
And yes, I do know people who would celebrate their daughter’s period with her, but not in some mean ambushey unexpected way.
I prefer the well-informed, expected almost non-event of my first period, I was lucky!
Well, I (a male with no kids) took that the mom was mostly upset with the daughter’s tone (0:23-0:26). Mrs. Homie would never brook that kind of tone from our hypothetical daughter. In my mind, the mom was probably willing to have a rational, calm conversation with her about patience, nature being unpredictable, blah blah blah. But instead the little lass got snippy.
A dirty towel? A mom was disgusted? Because her kid got her period?
I don’t believe one word of that story.
Most Jews I know that have had a bar or bat mitzvah studied their religion and learned to at least recite a section of the Torah in Hebrew and many left Hebrew school with far greater comprehension than that. A bat mitzvah celebrates something a girl has accomplished. Menustration isn’t an accomplishment. It’s a biological process that accompanies sexual maturity (like nocturnal emissions). Profoundly mentally disabled women and woman in comas menustrate. If menustration is a girl’s formal admission into womanhood, do you believe women who never have periods are not women?
Well there wouldn’t have been an occasion for a tone if the mom hadn’t FISHED A MAXIPAD OUT OF THE GARBAGE LIKE ONLY A CRAZY PERSON WOULD DO.
Really? What’s so unbelievable about a parent being a jerk to their child?
It’s very difficult to me to believe that a mom would give a child a dirty towel rather than a pad or a tampon. And it’s also difficult to believe that a mother would be disgusted about a biological function that she knows is going to happen in her daughter.
It’s not difficult to believe a parent could be a jerk about it.
Like the first time he gives a girl a ‘pearl necklace’? 