# 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:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/21 "2019-01-24T18:07:18Z")
I did not read an ounce of snark into the OP. Disbelief maybe.
Parties to celebrate a first period? OK.
Making those parties over-the-top blood-themed? A little weird.
(I am a male so no first-person experience but I have a daughter who got her first period about 12 years ago so I kind of know what’s going on. We did not have a party.)
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/22 "2019-01-24T18:22:03Z")
I’d like to see a First Wet Dream party for guys.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/23 "2019-01-24T18:38:28Z")
> [@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:
He’s literally listing things the articles recommend for food and activities at these parties. How is that snarky?
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### Author:  [@Royal\_Nonesutch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Nonesutch)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/24 "2019-01-24T18:51:04Z")
> [@Modesty\_Blaise](#):
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> Well clearly, \*someone \*is just as immature as the OP.
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> Congrats.
If you honestly, sincerely did not intuitively get that I was making a sarcastic, snide little joke (weak as it may have admittedly been) aimed at those who might ACTUALLY react in that boorish, stereotypical “Them uppitee, Wimmin’s Libber dames these days sure can’t take a little joke, eh?” that enlightened people of both sexes have been skewering since long before Dabney Coleman’s Male Chauvinist Pig role in “9 To 5”, I am truly sorry.
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/25 "2019-01-24T19:21:53Z")
Perhaps everyone could dress up in giant hoop skirts, and talk about how they’re “feeling unwell” and “it’s that time of the month” and “my Aunt Susan–you know, dear, my aunt with the _red hair_–is in town” and throw in a few dark allusions to “the curse of Eve”. Then someone could swoon.
You know–a Period Period Party.
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/26 "2019-01-24T19:47:54Z")
> [@markn\_1](#):
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> I’d like to see a First Wet Dream party for guys.
It already is the party. Waking up after a fun time you don’t remember with an annoying and confusing mess.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/27 "2019-01-24T20:00:16Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#):
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> Perhaps everyone could dress up in giant hoop skirts, and talk about how they’re “feeling unwell” and “it’s that time of the month” and “my Aunt Susan–you know, dear, my aunt with the _red hair_–is in town” and throw in a few dark allusions to “the curse of Eve”. Then someone could swoon.
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> You know–a Period Period Party.
I don’t imagine Colonel Angus will be invited to this one.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/28 "2019-01-24T20:11:56Z")
> [@markn\_1](#):
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> I’d like to see a First Wet Dream party for guys.
With soft-serve vanilla ice-cream?
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/29 "2019-01-24T20:29:05Z")
I’m sorry, but wow I thought it was cool to get my first period (like, “yeah, I’m growing up – woohoo!!!”), I would’ve died if my mother had done something like this.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/30 "2019-01-24T20:45:43Z")
> [@Babale](#):
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> It seems like an excuse to have a party.
[Carl]_I don’t need no Excuse! **To Party!** _[/Carl]
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> I don’t imagine Colonel Angus will be invited to this one.
Sure, he’s invited. Just has to use the back door.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/31 "2019-01-24T21:08:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> I’m sorry, but wow I thought it was cool to get my first period (like, “yeah, I’m growing up – woohoo!!!”), I would’ve died if my mother had done something like this.
Could be worse–you could have been [forced to swallow a whole boiled egg](https://www.buzzfeed.com/susiearmitage/21-first-period-traditions-from-around-the-world).
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### Author:  [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/32 "2019-01-24T21:59:52Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> I’m sorry, but wow I thought it was cool to get my first period (like, “yeah, I’m growing up – woohoo!!!”), I would’ve died if my mother had done something like this.
When I was in high school, Mr. Rinaldi said a lavish period party was an old Italian custom, but his daughter told him if he threw her one, _someone_ would be dyin’.
I once innocently held up a big package of pads in a department store and said, “HON, IS THIS THE RIGHT KIND?” Let me tell you, oppressed people don’t appreciate it when you fight stigma.
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### Author:  [@Modesty\_Blaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modesty_Blaise)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/33 "2019-01-24T23:28:54Z")
> [@Royal\_Nonesutch](#):
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> If you honestly, sincerely did not intuitively get that I was making a sarcastic, snide little joke (weak as it may have admittedly been) aimed at those who might ACTUALLY react in that boorish, stereotypical “Them uppitee, Wimmin’s Libber dames these days sure can’t take a little joke, eh?” that enlightened people of both sexes have been skewering since long before Dabney Coleman’s Male Chauvinist Pig role in “9 To 5”, I am truly sorry.
You quoted me then made a PMS “joke”. I was supposed to “intuitively get” that you were making fun of other people?
Females get subjected to these “jokes” throughout their lives, again and again. You obviously DO know that, but somehow you don’t know that telling a PMS joke won’t go over well, at the very least.
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### Author:  [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/34 "2019-01-24T23:41:14Z")
So I’m the only one who thought this thread was titled “Period Panties.” Ok.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/35 "2019-01-24T23:44:09Z")
> [@Modesty\_Blaise](#):
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> You quoted me then made a PMS “joke”. I was supposed to “intuitively get” that you were making fun of other people?
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> Females get subjected to these “jokes” throughout their lives, again and again. You obviously DO know that, but somehow you don’t know that telling a PMS joke won’t go over well, at the very least.
Well gee, I can’t IMAGINE why. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/36 "2019-01-24T23:51:28Z")
I saw the thread title and immediately thought, “Wait, women are using the fact they’re having a period as an excuse to party? On the one hand, sweet! Any excuse to party is good, and having a party every 28 days is even better, you can’t have too many parties. But wait, would you only be invited if you had your period that specific day? Wouldn’t that be kind of restrictive? Not to mention that men would never be invited, not that men need to be invited to every party or anything (though I personally would feel a bit sad at being left out).”
Now, having read the thread a bit and realizing that it’s a party to celebrate a girl’s first period, and _only_ her first period, my reaction is, “not enough parties”.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/37 "2019-01-25T02:50:01Z")
> [@Modesty\_Blaise](#):
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> You quoted me then made a PMS “joke”. I was supposed to “intuitively get” that you were making fun of other people?
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> Females get subjected to these “jokes” throughout their lives, again and again. You obviously DO know that, but somehow you don’t know that telling a PMS joke won’t go over well, at the very least.
It was pretty obvious to THIS female that s/he was making a joke making fun of other people.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/38 "2019-01-25T03:57:54Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> 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.
If the goal is too avoid being thought of as insensitive, then I’m not sure the effectiveness of the tactic of saying “I have a lot of snark, but I’m not going to say it because I’ll be seen as being insensitive.”
Yes, you didn’t directly write your snark, but directly stating that the (only?) reason you didn’t out was to avoid being labeled as insensitive isn’t going to convice many others.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/39 "2019-01-25T03:58:56Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> That’s not what I was expecting when I saw the thread title.
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> 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.”
See, my immediate thought was what this thread actually ended up being about. But then I quickly though, oh, pulykamell, you idiot, they mean “period parties” as in a “period piece” or “period costume.” And then, lo and behold, the first interpretation ended up being correct.
Well, huh. How 'bout that. Odd concept to me, but, hey, any reason to have a party is good enough for me.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-parties/828333/40 "2019-01-25T04:18:55Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> That’s not what I was expecting when I saw the thread title.
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> 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.”
I’ve been seeing people talking about these for a day or two, and this is exactly what I thought. I never clicked, but there seemed to be some air of controversy about them, and I thought maybe someone had, I don’t know, an antebellum-themed party where some questionable choices were made.
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