yeah just since I've read this and i feel the same as
@Koala I'm going to get my shit off
i guess at most you could describe me as a 'more feminine than most' cis-male or heteroqueer or something, its not my wheelhouse i can't wrap my mind around it. at the end of the day i see *myself* as a man, i don't care about finding a gender beyond that and for me, that's all, that's just the way I am, and of course I respect what other people see & feel themselves to be.
regardless of all that, and regardless of my sometimes very 'inappropriate' sense of humor, jokes about menstrual anything will generally bum me out. To me it's just common sense that it's not a humorous subject - for a constrasting example, in theory if a female bodied person jokes about a male bodied person getting their dick stuck in a zipper, it's the same difference - like damn, we have to joke about the inherent suffering we go thru due to our genitals? i dunno how so much else doesn't bother me, but this does bother me. it feels personal, like damn, you have to go after that now? of course anyone joking about shit issues isn't the same since we all have to shit
menstrual blood accentuating the flavor of koolaid isnt so bad but saying "someone is on their period" bothers me. on that note, hearing women say it, even my own mother, proves to me how hardwired the systemic misogyny is and that definitely fucks me up. like we can't just let people have their emotions? and what do we do? we make it about a woman being in a vulnerable position, and that's when i know it's deeply fucked up