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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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SemperIdem · 11/06/2025 09:06

It really doesn’t matter it is, if it’s being sold on social media, there is someone out there willing to buy it.

ThreePointOneFourOneFiveNine · 11/06/2025 09:04

So apparently lots of people here think periods are disgusting and vulgar! 🙄. No wonder so many women grow up feeling ashamed and embarrassed about periods. Personally I wouldn’t have wanted to celebrate mine starting, and I don’t think my daughters would either. But I can see why it could be a milestone that would be celebrated in other cultures. I don’t wish to buy period cookies, but I am neither shocked nor disgusted by someone else choosing to do so.

3amamama · 11/06/2025 09:04

I think anything that helps chip away at the fear of women’s bodies is a good thing. Including internalised fear.

PlasticAcrobat · 11/06/2025 09:04

This is reminding me of the recent breastmilk necklace thread (a necklace with the owner's breastmilk embedded in it).
Perhaps the young girl should be given a necklace with her first menstruation blood in it. 😬

loropianalover · 11/06/2025 09:03

I thought this was going to be some idea where we buy/get cookies every time we get our period, I was going to be all for it 🤣 don’t like the idea of the decorations…

AllFours · 11/06/2025 09:02

There’s nothing vulgar about periods or wanting to mark the start of a daughter’s period, but the idea of eating cookies that are designed to look like maxi pads and blood-stained pink gussets is absolutely disgusting! 🤐

beezlebubnicky · 11/06/2025 09:01

People commenting disgusting and vulgar shows why maybe we need to celebrate the normality of women's bodily functions. Menarche is completely normal and so is menstruation, and we shouldn't shame people about it.

I'm not sure I would do cookies, but there's nothing wrong with it either.

Sahara123 · 11/06/2025 09:00

I can just imagine my daughters faces if I’d given them period cookies 😳

evtheria · 11/06/2025 09:00

I thought this was going to be about cookies that help with periods (rich in suitable nutrients or something?) like breastfeeding snacks.

13yo me have been so embarrassed if I was given period cookies, but I think that’s more an issue of growing up in the 90s when you’d hide your pads and tampons were not for virgins. Still hate periods but good for them, hope the cookies were delicious.

SquashedMallow · 11/06/2025 09:00

Totally crude and vulgar. I think it's taking "talking about periods" to the next level....

QuickPeachPoet · 11/06/2025 08:59

Disgusting and unnecessary

Dangermoo · 11/06/2025 08:59

I remember my sister giving me a pack of Dr Whites, when I first started. No histrionics, just good old fashioned practicalities.

Soal · 11/06/2025 08:58

Though I have to say I would choose different imagery.

Soal · 11/06/2025 08:58

Dangermoo · 11/06/2025 08:52

That's just vulgar and unnecessary. Yuck.

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.

IdiottoGoa · 11/06/2025 08:56

My granddaughter started her periods around the same time as international women’s day so I sent her a book about inspirational women and sent her a message about how awesome women can be.

Didn’t think about a cookie though 🤣🤣🤣

Coffeeishot · 11/06/2025 08:55

Oh god sake, that's horrific that poor poor girl ! There was a post on here where a "well intentioned" mum wanted to buy her dd a first period keepsake posters just said, nope!

Kago2790 · 11/06/2025 08:53

In Japan they serve red rice (rice with red beans mixed through) to celebrate this.

Notreallyme27 · 11/06/2025 08:52

The world has indeed gone mad.

Dangermoo · 11/06/2025 08:52

That's just vulgar and unnecessary. Yuck.