# Shark week? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 29, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week/226555 "2004-01-29T10:54:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week/226555/1 "2004-01-29T10:54:40Z")
Going to be an ultra-short OP here. I’ve heard women referring to their menstrual phase as shark week. Why? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week/226555/2 "2004-01-29T11:11:14Z")
WAG: Sharks are attracted by blood in the water, and women _bleed_ during menstruation, so – blood connection with the shark. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week/226555/3 "2004-01-29T12:47:57Z")
There’s an approval process of sorts. I know this because I read an article mentioned Rodney Dangerfield’s inability to vote. Even though he was a member of the SAG, and even though he had turned in a respectable dramatic performance in _Natural Born Killers_, he was still viewed as a stand-up comic who appeared in a couple of B-movies. Apparently he brought his lack of membership in the Academy to the attention of (his union steward, the president of the Academy, _someone_), who also viewed him as a B-movie stand-up comic, who told him to “work on [his] craft” and come back next year. Sorry, no cite. This is all from hazy memory. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week/226555/4 "2004-01-29T12:50:19Z")
OP answered. Mods, please close this thread. Oh wait… ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week/226555/5 "2004-01-29T12:51:00Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > There’s an approval process of sorts. I know this because I read an article mentioned Rodney Dangerfield’s inability to vote. Even though he was a member of the SAG, and even though he had turned in a respectable dramatic performance in _Natural Born Killers_, he was still viewed as a stand-up comic who appeared in a couple of B-movies. > > Apparently he brought his lack of membership in the Academy to the attention of (his union steward, the president of the Academy, _someone_), who also viewed him as a B-movie stand-up comic, who told him to “work on [his] craft” and come back next year. > > Sorry, no cite. This is all from hazy memory. Whoa there! Wrong thread! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week/226555/6 "2004-01-29T13:26:24Z")
> [@Ice Wolf](#): > > WAG: Sharks are attracted by blood in the water, and women _bleed_ during menstruation, so – blood connection with the shark. Also, _The Discovery Channel_ occasionally has what they call “SHARK WEEK!!” which features…shows about sharks. So…sharks - blood - “shark week” on Discovery - approximately a week of bleeding during a woman’s period - SHARK WEEK. Acres better than “a visit from Aunt Flo” or “A visit from the Cardinal” or “THE CURSE,” is you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week/226555/7 "2004-01-29T13:32:10Z")
So should menstruating women & girls avoid surfing? (Hmmm, I wonder if this at least partially led to the attack on that Hawaiin girl who got her arm bitten off…) ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week/226555/8 "2004-01-30T02:29:02Z")
Well that cleared it up. Thanks, all.