My sis suffers horrendous periods. So does DD, albeit for just the 1st 2 days. But she gets migraine alongside it, and migraine is a beast to deal with. Best mate has endometriosis, again horrendous period pain. & I've known women who suffer dysmenorrhoea and seen that they are in terrible pain. So what if some women are given time off if periods are horrendous? & its clear that they make up the time off in other ways?
This is the kind of thing that puts me off feminism - as if we have to be in some kind of hardcore battle, striving to be seen as able to do all that men can do. Well, Im not a man. I don't want to be one, thank you. & Im not in an eternal battle with them because whilst the rifeness of sexism also annoys me and I will challenge it when I come across it (as most women do because its such an intrinsic part of everyday life and society), I don't think its a battle we will win by saying "look, we can do everything you can so no concessions ok, ever".I can't do all a man can do, why would I be able to? Just as a man cannot do all I can do.
Men do not have periods. Women do. & can and do work around periods that are debillitating. All the time. For years on end. Why make it sound as if, women are routinely given "period days" off? Generally, and in this instance, they are not.
Yes articles like this may make some men think "oh look, calling the delicate female card again" but those are the type of men we shouldn't be aiming to "adapt to fit" by proving we are oh so tough. Sexist men are sexist in numerous ways. I have no point to prove to them
Im glad an employer is so understanding, actually. & Id expect if men were the ones who had periods and several suffered illness and pain because of it, then an employer would be equally as understanding.