...to be amazed by how little some women know about their bodies?

[Celebelly]

Just an idle thought while browsing Conceptions/Pregnancy forums. Every day there seems to be someone asking 'Could I be pregnant?' with seemingly no idea how their cycle works, when you can realistically get pregnant, etc etc. I really find it quite worrying that education is obviously failing women in this way and that all we seem to be taught is how to deal with periods and nothing else. I really find it astounding that so many women don't seem to understand how ovulation works and how conception takes place. It's not even for conception; it's really valuable for contraception too to understand how a menstrual cycle works. Some of the questions are really mind-boggling.

AIBU to wonder why so many women apparently don't know how their body works? And to wonder what can be done to fix it?

MyVisions

ShutYoFace

you don't have to track them, you don't need to specifically know much about your own, but you should at the very least have a good idea how human bodies in general work.
So any of you "couldn't care less" people have children? Who is going to teach them when you so obviously can't?

Who says we dont know? Its just i dont care to track
i dont see a need in telling a child how to track ovulation
I mean what comes out of where, what a period is all that, yeah she needs to know but knowing how to track ovulation? As far as she will be told, pregnancy can occur at any point as while there a "cycle" not everyone fits that textbook ruling, i know this first hand so always use protection not only for that but stds.
If she wants to know how to track later on there many apps and sites, the dr she can ask. Its not like we cant find the nitty gritty if need be

Poor girl was devastated it would happen every month for the next 50 years. How she missed the fact it's every month I don't know.

This reminds me, I have always thought our use of language is really odd around this, and I think @Frouby's DD's assumption was completely logical. We say "get your period" like it's a one off thing when "start having periods" would make more sense. And I don't know why it's "my" period, obviously it's mine, it's coming out of my vagina! We don't say "I don't want to catch my cold" or "I've been filing and got my paper cut".