{"id":2604,"date":"2016-03-14T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2016-03-14T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T07:24:09","slug":"menstruation-men-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"The Test of Blood: How Men Would Menstruate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">\u201cI<\/span>t is better to bleed out than to fade away.\u201d\n\n~Kurt Cobain\n\nIt\u2019s a Monday evening and a few real men are preparing for their monthly pre-menstrual ritual. One is doing push-ups; another is downing an entire bottle of protein shake. As the men get their pump on, the crowd starts to gather. They begin to chant, \u201cperiod, period, period\u201d, culminating in a giant cheer and a Mexican wave. The menstruating men then go to a bar and begin drinking to celebrate the onset of their manly monthly period.\n\nPre-menstrual rituals became part of culture in the early 1800s, when monthly cycles of men in the form of the penal bleed, were taken as a sign of sure victory over foreign invaders and other such \u201cpansies\u201d. Today, the menstruating men gather at 7 pm and begin to raise toasts to planetary cycles, the God of war, and Benito Mussolini, a man famous for having let out the most menstrual discharge in a single day, circa 1923.\n\nAs the men drink, there is madness and hysteria in the air. It is \u201cthat time of the month\u201d when anything can happen. They talk about sticking it to their employers and having sex with women. Their hormones have been imbalanced and everyone is in danger. But in a good, adventurous sort of way, of course.\n\nDuring this pre-menstruation ritual, conversation revolves mainly around the history of great men and their perfectly synchronised cycles. In this world, arguments are triggered almost instantly because everyone is going through some \u201cdark stuff\u201d. This can lead to some pretty extreme hand-to-hand combat. Let\u2019s say if a Shane Warne fan and a Harbhajan Singh supporter were to meet by chance, shit would go down faster than a burning Space X rocket. This would probably end with someone saying, \u201cI\u2019ll bleed on you, you little bitch,\u201d because this is a normal insult now. Everyone finds it funny because there\u2019s nothing to be embarrassed about. It\u2019s just a man bleeding on another man, casually.\n\nWhen fights between PMSing men escalate, they sometimes gather in a true \u201cTest of Blood\u201d. This is comparing the size of blood stains over the last year to see who was the manliest man. In this world, women aren\u2019t allowed to talk shit about menstruation because they\u2019re really weak and don\u2019t really understand what menstruation feels like. The last woman who the men suspected was on her period was burned at the stake in the 1600s, setting an example for any other woman who thinks she\u2019s good enough to bleed like a warrior man.\n<\/p><blockquote class=\"quote--center\">If he succeeds in his initial plan, he will celebrate by pulling out a cigarette and the good ol\u2019 Sanju Baba Extra-Strength tampon.<\/blockquote>\nOver the years, menstruation has been rebranded and claimed as the Man\u2019s Syndrome, with ads ranging from, \u201cMan riding horse, with woman behind him\u201d to \u201cMan slaying enemies with the help of super XXTRA big Wrestler tampons\u201d. In one particularly gripping ad, Jackie Shroff beats up a mini army of men, does a few backflips, and then goes on to slowly deliver a line about how his heavy blood flow made this possible. Then he gets a cramp, but he ignores it, because what if people think he\u2019s weak. This is the same reason Arnold Schwarzenegger is the official brand ambassador of \u201cThe Period\u201d worldwide. At gyms, the menstrual cycle is given a catchy title like \u201c30-day menstruation challenge\u201d to encourage more men to be proud about their \u201cprivilege\u201d. Menstruation is serious business and it demands respect.\n\nAny woman who dares to laugh at the \u201cGreat Blood Sacrifice\u201d, is instantly schooled on the aches and pains that men have to go through to make the women happy. Meanwhile, any man who is deemed to be not bleeding enough is labelled \u201cweak\u201d, and men with heavy cycles go on to be presidents of their countries.\n\nWhen a man is menstruating, he will try very hard to convince a woman to have sex with him because there is no stigma attached to bleeding anymore. If this fails, he will explain to her very slowly and deliberately the good effects of sex on menstruating men for the next hour or so. He will then explain mathematics, lunar cycles, and other things \u201cwomen with little brains\u201d have a hard time grasping. If he succeeds in his initial plan, he will celebrate by pulling out a cigarette and the good ol\u2019 Sanju Baba Extra-Strength tampon.\n\nIt is for these reasons and many more that back at the bar, the men have begun to chant their menstruation anthem:\n\nOh, how I\u2019d love menstruation,\n\nEven though it hurts more than castration.\n\nBut it makes me a real man,\n\nOh, Priapus, Lord of Male Fertility, I\u2019m a fan.\n\nAs the night progresses and drinks flow, the real men come out and the song choices change a bit. Renditions of \u201cKhoon Nikla Toh Darna Kya\u201d now fill the air as the men continue to drown away the pain in alcohol. It\u2019s that time of the month and there will be blood.\n\n<em>This is a creative expansion of the ideas put forth in Gloria Steinem\u2019s essay titled \u201cIf Men Could Menstruate\u201d first published in Ms Magazine in 1978. Read the original <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ww3.haverford.edu\/psychology\/ddavis\/p109g\/steinem.menstruate.html\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n\n<b>Sign the <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/change.org\/NoMoreLimits\"><b>petition <\/b><\/a><b>to Make Menstrual Hygiene Education Compulsory in Schools. <\/b>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, menstruation has been rebranded and claimed as the Man\u2019s Syndrome. 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