Periods, Mansplained

Kathleen Toohill
5 min readApr 13, 2018
Adapted from Pixabay and pngtree/Ozan Özen

‘I promise you it’s totally possible to get rid of cramps through exercise.’

Editor’s note: The following is a satirical piece designed to lambaste despicable ideas surrounding reproductive anatomy, menstruation, and gender. To that end, it utilizes some cissexist and heteronormative language. As we’ve heard from readers since the piece’s publication, some usages of this

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Kathleen Toohill

Words in @tnyshouts, @TheAtlantic, @mcsweeneys, @CatapultStory, @ElectricLit, @yelp. Defender of puns. Former sunflower seed butter apologist.