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If There Is One Time In The Month That No Man Can Ever, Ever, Comprehend…it’s

the dreaded PERIOD!

Maria Rattray
4 min readAug 18, 2022
Woman in menstrual pain
Photo by Sydney Sims on Unsplash

This points to a jobs-for-the-boys’ appointment!

It beggars belief…someone to spearhead a period dignity position is given to a young man.

Unless he plans to spearhead it with an initiative to promote a groundbreaking (likely highly-profitable) new business in women’s vibrating tampons, don’t even try to convince me that this is not a nepotistic appointment.

When a woman is doubled up in pain, something, just anything to ease the agony, read vibration, (distraction) could do the trick.

Sure, I’m joking about that idea.

Still, I haven’t forgotten the monthly agony I suffered, doubled up in pain, in floods of tears, unable to go to school.

Not every woman suffers so, but many do.

So imagine my incredulity when my sister sent me a text that read:

“Google…Period Dignity Officer then convince me the world has not gone mad.”

Google…Period Dignity Officer, then convince me the world has not gone mad.

I could never have been prepared for the announcement.

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Maria Rattray
Maria Rattray

Written by Maria Rattray

Writer, author, teacher, fun-loving poet. Trying valiantly to make the world a better place. Helping you to guide the future. Find me at: https://ponmyword.com

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