To think “period cookies” is ridiculous…

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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?

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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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!

Really?

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

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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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.

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 😁

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.

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.

Now that I could do!!

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

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

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

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!

So vulgar, clearly everything can be commercialised

What’s wrong with some nicely decorated cookies instead?

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.

a chocolate cake to celebrate baby's first poo

rice pudding to celebrate your son's first sexual experience

a banana cake to celebrate your husband's erectile dysfunction

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The irony of the mum writing she wants the cookies so her daughters “ first period is not utterly horrific” - and she’s written it publicly on Facebook (I assume with name/profile photo attached) so that everybody knows! That’s more horrific to a teen than the period I would think.
Nobody should be ashamed of their periods, but if I was the daughter I would be mortified that it’s been announced on Facebook.

This is absolutely ridiculous, yes, society has lost the plot! When I was a kid I grabbed a sanitary towel out of my drawer, put three spare ones in my school bag, downed a couple of paracetamol and got myself off to school.
Make a big deal out of something and that’s exactly what it’ll be.

They do Willie's and boobs in cakes, Halloween theme food like hotdogs looking cut finger etc. Period cookies? Doesn't sound far off tbh.
Have we lost the plot? Yes, definitely time ago. There are poop shape candy and toilet shape with sorbet in for the kids in the cady store.

Good response. Some people deliberately misconstrue posts because they enjoy conflict. I didn’t take it that you used those words to describe periods.

Crinnnge. Reminds me of a scene in a Judy Blume book where an older teen girl bakes a cake for a younger relative to commemorate her first period, and ices 'Congratulations' across the top. Way to alert absolutely everyone to what's happening... 🙄

The FB request makes it sound like some sort of 'period celebration' is being planned. 😣 Blimey, I didn't want anyone except my best friends to know when I started - I was even mortified that my mum told my dad! I get that it's a rite of passage, but... ugh, just no.