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legopantsMarch 13, 2025(Edited March 13, 2025)

Bleeding is the ONLY SYMPTOM THAT IS SPECIFIC TO MENSTRUATION

The ONLY single universal signifier of a period is bleeding

It is the ONLY shared similarity of every period every woman has ever had is the blood

I don't get random cramps and think I'm on my period. I don't get cravings and think I'm menstruating. I don't feel constipated or more annoyed one day and automatically attribute it to my period. Why? Because it im not bleeding, it's not a "period symptom" it is JUST a symptom, and typically of just being a normal human being. If you're having cramps without bleeding/a uterus, you're just having cramps. Get over yourself....And Not once have I ever mistaken a different bodily function or pain for the pain I get on my period because it's not even remotely the same. Men cannot ever understand this feeling as they have no uterus. The fact they genuinely believe that constipated gas pains are even vaguely similar to menstrual cramps is so misogynistic and disgusting already, but the fact society actually listens and listened to them immediately about having period cramps over hundreds to thousands of yrs of women talking about our ACTUAL PERIOD CRAMPS tells you everyone knows they're men

VestalVirginMarch 13, 2025

Yeah.

No woman would ever be stupid enough to think that because she gets random cramps or cravings or mood swings that she cannot be pregnant. Because those things are not a period.

And if a girl during puberty had bad cramps in that area but never had any bleeding, you'd take her to a doctor to find out if there's something wrong with her reproductive organs. You would NOT say "Oh, she got her period" and give her painkillers.