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To think “period cookies” is ridiculous…

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smallstitch · 11/06/2025 08:50

Just seen a post on local fb page asking if any bakers can make some “period cookies” with a photo from Instagram. Various iced cookies - some depicting pants with pink gusset, others are sanitary pads, and some say “welcome to the big girls club”.
Is it me or has society lost the plot?

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MargoLivebetter · 11/06/2025 12:17

Were they made with womb lining? Bit like frying up your placenta after giving birth. There's nearly always a story about someone doing that and most people are fairly repulsed but there are always a few raving about how delicious a placenta is with mushrooms and onions 😂.

The one with the sanitary pad on it looked particularly delicious. Nothing says "mmmmmm eat me" to me more than a cookie with a sanitary towel on it. Hopefully, we might see a "mucus awareness" cookie range coming soon. You could do it for snot or vaginal mucus, so that we could all get a better understanding in cookie based form of what healthy mucus looks like. I think I'm on to something here! Cookies for all forms of bodily secretions. Yum, yum, yum.

TiredArse · 11/06/2025 12:15

What’s wrong with some nicely decorated cookies instead?

Channellingsophistication · 11/06/2025 12:15

So vulgar, clearly everything can be commercialised

shrunkenhead · 11/06/2025 12:10

Do we know they were to celebrate a first period though? I thought perhaps someone was launching a new range of sanitary products and these were for the launch party....??? In which case, kind of apt, I guess!

RaraRachael · 11/06/2025 12:09

@Annascaul you beat me to it! I was just going to say exactly the same thing.

Annascaul · 11/06/2025 12:07

Soal · 11/06/2025 08:58

Loads of different cultures through history have celebrated menarche in different ways and there is nothing vulgar about it as there is absolutely nothing vulgar about periods. @Coffeeishot lots of people DO do this though, may not be your way but I don't think it's so obviously weird. Shame to pass on this attitude to daughters.

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There’s nothing vulgar about periods, nobody suggested otherwise.
Depicting the whole messy process on a fecking cookie is as vulgar as bedamned.

OnionBag · 11/06/2025 12:07

Yuk! Why does everything have to be publicised now? The poor teen will be mortified.

reversegear · 11/06/2025 12:03

FreezeDriedStrawberries · 11/06/2025 11:59

I've just been having a search on FB to see if I could see any (not to buy, just to see if it's actually a thing 😂)
Didn't see any. I did see someone who'd made some for celebrating their hysterectomy though.
"See you later menstruator": etc. 😁
Which I think I could get on board with some of those as someone who is sick of the sight of mine and just want the damn thing to end - definitely a day of celebration and cookies when that happens 😁

Now that I could do!!

reversegear · 11/06/2025 12:03

Gross, we will be showing sheets on the wedding night next.. periods aren’t gross, women’s body parts aren’t gross but we don’t have a “congratulations on your first wet dream party” do we.

funinthesun19 · 11/06/2025 12:02

Farageisacupidstunt · 11/06/2025 11:51

WOW! If ever there was a post that proves itself wrong this is it. The fact that words like CRUDE, DISGUSTING, VULGAR, SHAMEFUL, EMBARRASSING and HORRIFIC are being used to describe a perfectly natural part of a woman's health on a women-orientated forum just shows how far we still have to go. In reality none of these words should be used to describe our periods. Personally, I see nothing wrong with the cookie idea. Would I choose them? No, but given my own hormonal history, I'd never see periods as something to celebrate. Each to their own though.

I haven’t used any of those words to describe periods. There’s nothing shameful about periods. I’ve used those words to describe mums/grandmas/aunties/sisters etc.. who are probably being an absolute overbearing nightmare for a young girl who has just started her periods. Disgusting, vulgar, shameful, embarrassing, horrific. Those are the perfect words to describe these women. Not the periods.

FreezeDriedStrawberries · 11/06/2025 11:59

I've just been having a search on FB to see if I could see any (not to buy, just to see if it's actually a thing 😂)
Didn't see any. I did see someone who'd made some for celebrating their hysterectomy though.
"See you later menstruator": etc. 😁
Which I think I could get on board with some of those as someone who is sick of the sight of mine and just want the damn thing to end - definitely a day of celebration and cookies when that happens 😁

Itsnotallaboutyoulikeyouthink · 11/06/2025 11:59

So we should start celebrating when a teens makes voice breaks should we? It is ridiculous it’s a normal part of being a woman it doesn’t need to be a fanfare. Yes I know it is celebrated in other cultures doesn’t mean we should copy.

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smallstitch · 11/06/2025 11:55

Crunchymum · 11/06/2025 09:25

I'm highly skeptical this happened

Do you have a screenshot @smallstitch ?

Here you go, not sure if it will show straight away

To think “period cookies” is ridiculous…
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Farageisacupidstunt · 11/06/2025 11:51

WOW! If ever there was a post that proves itself wrong this is it. The fact that words like CRUDE, DISGUSTING, VULGAR, SHAMEFUL, EMBARRASSING and HORRIFIC are being used to describe a perfectly natural part of a woman's health on a women-orientated forum just shows how far we still have to go. In reality none of these words should be used to describe our periods. Personally, I see nothing wrong with the cookie idea. Would I choose them? No, but given my own hormonal history, I'd never see periods as something to celebrate. Each to their own though.

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smallstitch · 11/06/2025 11:47

Of course there’s nothing vulgar about periods, and it’s fine to talk about them etc, but sanitary towel cookies 🤦‍♀️

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Flashahah · 11/06/2025 11:40

JHound · 11/06/2025 11:04

It’s a bit cringe but no more or less cringe than baby showers, bridal showers and stag / hen dos.

Really?

DontTouchRoach · 11/06/2025 11:38

evtheria · 11/06/2025 10:49

I grew up abroad, in a tiny country where we were a decade or so behind culture/fashion until we got cable tv, and periods weren't directly addressed unless you had cool, or younger western parents. It was definitely something we heard the older girls chat about in school, that you couldn’t use tampons until you’d had sex. Luckily I also gained access to magazines like J17 etc, where lI found most of the answers to my questions!

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Oh, OK - fair enough. I'm glad you got access to J17 - that magazine did so much good when it came to keeping young girls informed about their bodies!

Dangermoo · 11/06/2025 11:27

CakeFace1234 · 11/06/2025 11:25

I saw something similar on an Australian teen drama. The storyline was along the lines of - girl part of a sports team was so embarrassed when she started her periods so the parents of her friend organised at the end of the match for celebrations and out came a big red velvet cake and cookies. I did think - what the heck! How mortifying.

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CakeFace1234 · 11/06/2025 11:25

I saw something similar on an Australian teen drama. The storyline was along the lines of - girl part of a sports team was so embarrassed when she started her periods so the parents of her friend organised at the end of the match for celebrations and out came a big red velvet cake and cookies. I did think - what the heck! How mortifying.

Saltedcarameltiramisucheesecake · 11/06/2025 11:24

NeverDropYourMooncup · 11/06/2025 10:49

Yeah, they're also known as hash cakes.

Not convinced that they'd go down well at school, though. Not with the staff, at any rate.

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Oh, I don't know, I might accept one, just to be polite.

IsItWickedNotToCare · 11/06/2025 11:12

Gross

maddiemookins16mum · 11/06/2025 11:10

Crikey, when I started mine I got a copy of Jackie and a Aztec Bar.

Overtheatlantic · 11/06/2025 11:07

My mom took me to lunch.

Bonkersdogmum · 11/06/2025 11:07

It’s just not needed is it.

I think nowadays period are a lot more known about by younger girls earlier because of social media. When DSD was getting to that age, I bought the teen period products range for her to keep in her room for when the time came. As others have said - it’s normal for women and it’s a case of normalising it for younger girls.

DP on the other hand was way over the top about it all and making out like it’s a huge transition🙄way over the top, really emotional and kept allowing her to have days off school for her period (she was milking it!) so I put my foot down and said no - this is something that will be happening every 4 weeks - get over it. Life doesn’t stop because of a period.

JHound · 11/06/2025 11:04

It’s a bit cringe but no more or less cringe than baby showers, bridal showers and stag / hen dos.