# Period Parties?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 24, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333 "2019-01-24T14:48:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/1 "2019-01-24T14:48:44Z")
Just saw a report on these this morning on Huffpo:
> **[Parents Are Smashing The Stigma Of Menstruation With Period Parties](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/period-parties-are-a-thing_l_5bfc2cace4b03b230fa57360)**
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> Many parents are throwing menarche celebrations for their daughters.
[https://www.betty.me/periods/period-party/](https://www.betty.me/periods/period-party/)
Red food and red balloons? Bloody Marys? themed piñatas? Pin-the-tampon-on-the-Vagina?
I appreciate the sentiment and even the need (to counter the stigma), but my mind is going into overdrive on snarky comments and parodies, which I will refrain from writing – it’s too easy, and would be branded as too insensitive.
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### Author:  [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/2 "2019-01-24T15:19:46Z")
I’ve never encountered one of these in the wild and wonder if they’re real, but here’s a funny video about one: [First Moon Party - YouTube](https://youtu.be/NEcZmT0fiNM)
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/3 "2019-01-24T15:22:00Z")
Why do you give a shit what other people do? Especially, why do youj give so much of a shit that you are seething with barely restrained snark?
It seems like an excuse to have a party. I would find it tacky too, but no weirder than half the shit that people do.
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### Author:  [@Modesty\_Blaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modesty_Blaise)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/4 "2019-01-24T15:41:49Z")
Girls having parties celebrating a body function that they’ve been taught to hide and feel shame about by our culture.
Let’s point and laugh. Har har. Snicker, snicker.
OP was written by a twelve year old.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/5 "2019-01-24T15:47:45Z")
> [@Babale](#):
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> Why do you give a shit what other people do? Especially, why do youj give so much of a shit that you are seething with barely restrained snark?
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> It seems like an excuse to have a party. I would find it tacky too, but no weirder than half the shit that people do.
Boy, snark about snark. It’s meta-snark.
I care because I’m interested. And my wanting to comment shouldn’t be confused with disdain.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/6 "2019-01-24T15:48:55Z")
> [@Modesty\_Blaise](#):
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> Girls having parties celebrating a body function that they’ve been taught to hide and feel shame about by our culture.
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> Let’s point and laugh. Har har. Snicker, snicker.
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> OP was written by a twelve year old.
Nope. I’m commenting on a social development. And note that I purposely did NOT make any negative comments, and spoke about the positive value of the parties.
Post was written by someone inattentive.
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### Author:  [@Modesty\_Blaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modesty_Blaise)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/7 "2019-01-24T15:54:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Just saw a report on these this morning on Huffpo:
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> ['Period Parties' Are Smashing The Stigma Of Menstruation | HuffPost Life](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/period-parties-are-a-thing_n_5bfc2cace4b03b230fa57360)
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> [https://www.betty.me/periods/period-party/](https://www.betty.me/periods/period-party/)
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> **Red food and red balloons? Bloody Marys? themed piñatas? Pin-the-tampon-on-the-Vagina?**
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> I appreciate the sentiment and even the need (to counter the stigma), but my mind is going into overdrive on snarky comments and parodies, which I will refrain from writing – it’s too easy, **and would be branded as too insensitive.**
The first bolded part contradicts your concern in the second bolded part.
And you did not “refrain from writing” the snarky comments. You opened with them.
Spare me your “interest” in the subject.:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/8 "2019-01-24T16:00:12Z")
That’s not what I was expecting when I saw the thread title.
I thought, “A party where people come dressed in the style of a particular historical period, and have food and drinks and entertainment from that period? Sounds like a neat idea.”
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/9 "2019-01-24T16:04:56Z")
I know women who have done them for their teenage daughters after they have their first period - sans the bloody mary’s of course. A first period can be a sort of traumatic event - especially if you are early with it (not getting it becomes traumatic if you are among the last - in a different fashion). My girlfriends and I took my daughter to lunch and welcomed her into the club when she had hers.
And it sounds like tacky fun to do it as an adult. Heck, who doesn’t like to get drunk and make fun of something that is otherwise a pain in the ass (well, a pain near the ass). My girlfriends are all into menopause now - which creeps up too slowly to celebrate. In terms of inappropriate behavior, its better than shoving dollar bills in the g-string of some girl young enough to be your daughter - which is apparently how men inappropriately let loose.
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/10 "2019-01-24T16:23:49Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Boy, snark about snark. It’s meta-snark.
> I care because I’m interested. And my wanting to comment shouldn’t be confused with disdain.
I’m not confusing your wanting to comment with disdain, I’m just noting the disdain in your comments.
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### Author:  [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/11 "2019-01-24T16:24:58Z")
> [@Modesty\_Blaise](#):
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> The first bolded part contradicts your concern in the second bolded part.
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> And you did not “refrain from writing” the snarky comments. You opened with them.
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> Spare me your “interest” in the subject.:rolleyes:
Were you aware that the bolded parts were real suggestions from one of the links he mentions, and not things he made up? (Also, the suggested bloody marys are virgin… which is somehow appropriate)
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/12 "2019-01-24T16:29:44Z")
Man, low-hanging fruit for HuffPo there. They went over this - albeit briefly - [in 2014](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/18/first-moon-party-hello-flo_n_5509043.html) when there was a viral ad for the “HelloFlo” feminine products service.
The SDMB then tried to get to the bottom of whether or not [“period parties” were a real thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=726534).
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/13 "2019-01-24T16:40:06Z")
As a woman, my reaction is: nope :eek:. Just no. What’s next, a runny nose party?
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/14 "2019-01-24T16:55:32Z")
I guess I can see the point, but seems to me there’s a difference between not being ashamed or embarrassed by a normal bodily function and celebrating it with what sounds like a tacky event. Or is this from the “Any Excuse For A Party” Department?
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### Author:  [@Royal\_Nonesutch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Nonesutch)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/15 "2019-01-24T17:06:02Z")
> [@Modesty\_Blaise](#):
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> Girls having parties celebrating a body function that they’ve been taught to hide and feel shame about by our culture.
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> Let’s point and laugh. Har har. Snicker, snicker.
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> OP was written by a twelve year old.
Well clearly, it must be _someone’s_ Time Of The Month, amirite guys? 😛
(Too easy?)
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/16 "2019-01-24T17:23:42Z")
It’s a classic HuffPro article. A few people did something a few times and now let’s pretend this is something regular.
No difference between this and “Millennials are now having sex with blenders!”
Eyeroll and move on to the next random fad HuffPro feels exists
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/17 "2019-01-24T17:24:38Z")
> [@Modesty\_Blaise](#):
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> The first bolded part contradicts your concern in the second bolded part.
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> And you did not “refrain from writing” the snarky comments. You opened with them.
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> Spare me your “interest” in the subject.:rolleyes:
Seconded.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/18 "2019-01-24T17:55:11Z")
These parties are thrown to “counter the stigma”? WTF?
This is among the stupidest things I’ve read lately.
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### Author:  [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/19 "2019-01-24T17:56:13Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> I guess I can see the point, but seems to me there’s a difference between not being ashamed or embarrassed by a normal bodily function and celebrating it with what sounds like a tacky event. Or is this from the “Any Excuse For A Party” Department?
Huh. Mom and I went out for a “just us girls” lunch to commemorate the first time I got my period. Question is, are these parties for the first time a girl’s gotten her period, or do they have these once a month?
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### Author:  [@Modesty\_Blaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modesty_Blaise)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/20 "2019-01-24T17:58:29Z")
> [@Royal\_Nonesutch](#):
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> Well clearly, it must be _someone’s_ Time Of The Month, amirite guys? 😛
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> (Too easy?)
Well clearly, \*someone \*is just as immature as the OP.
Congrats.
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