Imabanana it's your choice to deal with it how you like.
Here's my take on it, feel free to ignore me.
I've never felt the need to talk to men generally about my periods but may have mentioned it to female friends or colleagues when I had periods, especially if I was in pain.
Periods are totally individual, for some of us there may be a lot pain, a lot of blood, sometimes sickness. I have no idea how many people just stick a tampon in and go rollerblading with a dalmatian dog or wind surfing in white shorts, or whatever else the tampon ads tell us to do!
What I would say is periods are normal, and some are bad, and incapacitating. For those who experience sickness, very strong emotions of upset or anger, massive blood loss etc, just taking a pain killer and getting on with it is not an option.
My dd's periods are very, very incapacitating at the moment. We've consulted the doc and she has a day off school when she needs it. I never tell school it is period-related. I don't need aggro on making medical-based decisions for my child.
However, I wish we lived in a world designed and run by and planned for women, or at least 50/50 where periods were normal (12 times a year for 40 years seems pretty normal to me). And where no one felt the need to judge others for how the other girl or woman's period affected them.
It's natural but it can hurt and be harmful. Like birth, I know people who vertuacally coughed and the baby fell out, it doesn't mean that for me giving birth to dd was not one of the most painful things in my life (up there with toothache and earache!).
Some people will be emotionally unaffected by their period. Good on them. My experience of myself, my sister and my dd is that that is not the case. So, just as teenagers may be affected by hormones, just as hot flushes or flashes may affect menopausal women, so periods may affect women, and are not an excuse to belittle their views at that time.
But that is just my view.
(now if I had a period emoji I would use it!)