Greetings guys, gals, and non-binary pals and welcome back to another video! I am here
once again in Sydney, Australia having a blast, I really like it here,
genuinely I love Australia - don't tell anyone I said that, let's keep that a secret between
you and I, you don't need to tell anybody. But I really love Australia, especially Melbourne,
I love Melbourne, Melbourne was fantastic. If you wanna hear more about my travel journeys,
I am going to upload a video, talking a bit about a bit what I've been up to, on my second channel
and also, if you wanna see vlogs and stuff, that is available on Patreon at patreon.com/savvycat.
Today, we are going to be once again looking at some things men say about our bodies, that uh, are
not very correct, not very well-informed. But specifically, the topic of today is: periods.
It's a topic that men are not super educated on and to be honest, a lot of women and non-binary
people aren't very educated on it even if it is our own bodies, it's something we don't talk about a lot
but it is getting better and something we need to talk about more. So I'm going to be reading some
stuff that some men have said about [stifles laugh] periods, because it- itcan be quite amusing
and also, quite like "oh my god we need more inclusive and better - not even sex education,
just like - education, like anatomy, biology" I guess cause for some reason talking about
periods and menstruation falls under sex education when I guess it's got to do
with your reproductive cycle, but it's not got anything to do with sex, so...
Ah yeah, and this video is brought to you by the wonderful Intimina,
which I will tell you a little bit more about a little bit later.
Also, I'm like talking relatively quietly, because um I'm sharing this hotel with Cat obviously and
the bedroom is like right there, I could see into it if I wanted to. This is more like my morning
voice, which it is morning, so that makes sense. I just took my Ritalin with my cup of coffee
because that's the most me thing you can do. Are you meant to do that? Probably not, but...
[reads] Period pain. Girls: you don't understand my period it hurts! Me: scoliosis, femoral plate,
body bruises, depression, anxiety, and bad knees. Hehe... Sorry.
And there's a little cartoon where this girl is bleeding like a little bit
and this guy is like stabbed in the back a lot, has like a lot of knifes in his back,
you know, he's hiding his pain because a woman's period pain is obviously- comes first, it's much
less but he has to be strong and look after her. Anyway, that's what I got from the application.
Only men [laughs] suffer from those things, you're right. Women only have periods, we only have
periods that's the only thing that we have that causes us pain, that's it. We have it so easy,
we never struggle physically or mentally in any other way at all.
It's not like the hormones that come with periods can cause
several days of like, depression, regardless of whether you are clinically depressed or not.
The next one is not about periods, it kinda alternates between period posts and not-period
posts but I can kinda bring them all to the same topic if I try my best.
[reads] She's in her thirties, not all that young,"
Spelbren said. "Stretch marks, so she's had at least one child."
Only people with children get stretchmarks, being pregnant is the only thing that
causes the stretchmarks. It's not like they're called stretchmarks because its
what happens if your skin stretches, so you know, if you grow quickly as a child,
that can cause stretch marks. A lot of people have stretchmarks on their boobs because you know
boobs can get kinda big and there's not always enough skin there for that,
so that stretches out a bit. If you gain weight at any point, you can get stretch marks.
Some people who aren't even very tall or large in any way have stretchmarks just because they
happen from growing. A majority of people have stretchmarks, that's a fun fact for you.
I don't- I'm not gonna touch on the next sentence of this because
it's- it's just kinda fucked up. I don't know the context of this post, but the next line is
"Not the type that usually gets trafficked." and there is no- there is no positive way that that
is written, there is no way that could mean anything other than something like horrific.
[reads] Told my boyfriend I came on my period but have no tampons at his house
so he told me to sit on the toilet and get most of it out? men are f*cking dumb lol.
It's so funny how often you do see men saying stuff like this about like- there was that whole
post that happened with this guy being like "Why don't women just hold it in, it's not my fault
they can't control their bladder." It goes back to the idea of them thinking that like-
just not piecing it together and not knowing because that implies that they think like
period blood and pee comes out of the same place which means that your baby is in your bladder?
Or you pee out of your uterus, and both of those are so hilarious to think about. This one here,
"sit on the toilet and get most of it out," this is why we need more comprehensive education around
periods and why we need to like talk about it at school with all students. It doesn't matter the anatomy
of the student; we need to talk about this stuff because it does come in handy for everyone at
some point, it's just good to know this stuff and it's good to know how each other's bodies work.
When I was at school and we did this sort of stuff we were not separated so like, I learned
all about like male puberty, they all learned about female puberty, and sex education; we
were never separated from it because they thought it was important for everyone to know. And it is.
However, you- no one ever really tells you that like your period is like uncontrolled, you know
what I mean? And like, they don't tell you that you're bleeding like all the time or just like
randomly throughout the day and that you have no control over that. That's not like said,
they just like "you bleed." [pauses]
And like, everyone knows that. Like I feel like we need to talk about it a little bit
more. Sex education and like education around puberty and that stuff is so base-level
basic, it needs to be a little bit more comprehensive I think, just like a little bit.
To go off of this, you know a way to solve your problem of never having to worry about having any
tampons at your boyfriends house? I mean you could carry a box of tampons around with you,
but I'm gonna give you an alternative because I can.
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[reads] I want to go all the way in the Fallopian tube
dot dot dot question mark You don't know about the gallopan tube,
it's sexy you're innocent
[laughs] I hope that you don't know what the Fallopian tube is, if that's what you want to do.
Like you obviously don't know about the Fallopian tube, or sorry, the "gallopan" tube, but surely,
if you know the word, you've seen like a diagram, right? You can- surely you can figure out that
that's not a thing you can do nor try to do and surely you can also know that that would not be
pleasant for anyone, and it would- it would kill someone if it was physically possible, it would-
it would kill them! "It's sexy that you're innocent" um [laughs] that's- that's a statement to unpack
in itself. Innocent being sexy, I find a really weird concept, personally. Being innocent and cute
I understand. Being innocent and sexy is really strange to me, it's really strange to me,
and if anyone in this situation doesn't know what the f*ck they're talking about, it's you. In case
you weren't aware, the Fallopian tube is like the pathway between the ovaries and the uterus,
so your eggs live in the ovaries and then during ovulation they're released and they make the way
through the Fallopian tube into the uterus, where they - if they are fertilized - they implant and
then a baby grows. And if they're not fertilized, that's when you get your period. Fun fact,
the Fallopian tube should not be touched, in fact any time a Fallopian tube is touched it's
for something like an ectopic pregnancy where the egg gets fertilized in there,
and that's like lethal if it's not dealt with very quickly, cause if a baby grows there,
it bursts and then there's internal bleeding and that's f*cking ridiculously dangerous.
Don't touch Fallopian tubes. That's the moral of this story. Maybe know anatomy before you try
to bring it into a sexting thing, because it's not very sexy that you are innocent.
Innocence is not the right word is it even, uneducated
is the word. Being uneducated about how my body works and it's- it's not very sexy.
[reads] Did you know? Massaging breasts with olive oil will help you to increase the blood flow in
your bust and help the lymph do their job. With olive oil breast massage, you will get firmer,
toned, and bigger breasts. Your skin will be soft, moisturized, and more elastic.
And someone just replied "so I'm sitting there,
olive oil on my titties" which is just very funny [laughs]
This is like, it's so insane to me how much of this sort of stuff is like on the internet,
it kind of like sometimes even pops up on like the side of like, you know,
when you're- things you're reading on the internet, because it's like the "doctors hate her" kind of thing,
you know, where it's just like a load of absolute bullsh*t but people
are like looking for these answers. We are made to feel insecure about our bodies, that's a fact, we all
know that. And something that a lot of women are like self-concious about is their breast size,
because we are taught that we need to have a very specific breast size and shape in order to be
considered like attractive. So that's something that a lot of people are self-concious about,
myself included, I spent a really long time struggling with my body and with my like,
boob area um, because I had a partner who was the worst and uh told me that
I needed to get plastic surgery when I was V14 [coughs] anyway, besides the point.
It's something that a lot of people are self-conscious about, I spent a lot of
time learning to like love and embrace my body for what it is and I still struggle a lot but my boobs
is not something that I struggle with anymore because the way I view it is that I don't have
to wear a bra, that's fantastic, that's great, I haven't worn a bra in so long. Sometimes I
wear bralettes because the tops I wear are like see-through, so I wear like a bralette. I put on like a
proper bra for the first time, like an underwire bra for the first time since Covid started
and I immediately took it off. Cause it was so uncomfy. I used to love bras cause they are pretty
um but I put one on and I took it off immediately because it's uncomfy and I
don't need it. And I love that I don't need it, it's great.
And then, on the flip-side obviously there are people with like bigger boobs or saggy boobs
and they're told that that's not attractive and that's a lie, all boobs are great, boobs are boobs
and boobs are great. And if anyone complains about your boobs, they're a freaking dumb*ss
and they don't deserve you anyways, f*ck them. They don't get any boobs then [laughs]
But like this, this reminds me, this sort of post reminds me of being like a teenager, because this
is who this is targeted toward. This is the sort of stuff that I looked at when I was a teenager because my
boyfriend at the time told me I needed to and I wanted to feel like loved and attractive. And looking
at it in hindsight, it's so ridiculous, cause obviously this is not a real thing.
One of my favorite things about like, this particular fashion of advice is if you google
like "how to make your boobs bigger" because like again, that's something I googled as a teenager,
one of the things they tell you is to have a baby,
they're like: get pregnant. Don't have a baby to make your boobs bigger,
what the f*ck? [laughs] That's not- that's not good advice. The single worst reason I've ever
heard for having a child, and there's some pretty terrible reasons, but that's probably the worst.
[reads] Menstruation is a lie invented centuries ago. Women bleed because they masturbate with
long nails, hurting the insides. Doctors say menstruating is natural, but, if it was, it'd
happen to men too. Men masturbate differently, so they don't scratch themselves. Therefore no blood.
[breathes in] So about that more comprehensive anatomy and sex education that we need. This
is what happens when people don't learn why periods exist [laughs] what the f*ck.
"If it was natural, then men would also bleed." Do men have a uterus? No? Oh hm, maybe that's why
they don't get their periods then, maybe it's because they don't shed the wall of their uterus every month
because no egg implanted. Your uterus builds up a wall so that it can like, have an egg implanted
and grow a baby, and if there's no baby, if there's no egg implanted, it's like "well, f'*ck you then"
and it clears it all out and then repeats the cycle and hopes that this month, there'll be
a baby. That doesn't happen to cis men, or anyone without a uterus, because they don't
have a uterus, the- that doesn't- if you can't carry a baby, you're not gonna get your period.
I do love when people come in and just say absolute bullsh*t and
think that they're right. If you say something with confidence, people are gonna believe you.
And I am sure there are actually a decent amount
of men that do believe this, and that's what's so funny and so awful at the same exact time.
Men say the darndest things. [laughs]
Okay, we have a comic strip of a like cowboy putting a cup under someone's dress having
period blood in a cup, drinking it, and saying "she's fertile."
[smacks lips]
um. That one has left me speechless and also made me extremely uncomfortable. [disgusted sounds]
It makes me very uncomfy. Very very uncomfy. I'm assuming that this was made as a joke,
cause there is no way this could be made like seriously obviously um, but the idea that you can taste that
someone is fertile based of on there period blood is hilarious to me and also disgusting.
I don't really make it my business going around and tasting period blood, so I couldn't tell
you if there's a difference between someone being fertile or not, but if that's a thing
that someone has figured out, I'm gonna question: how did you figure that out? And why
was this something you were trying to figure out? [laughs] And also, think it's kinda interesting-
it's kinda interesting, but I don't feel that that's real. And I- I'm kinda hopeful that no one has
attempted to find out because its blergh icky, icky. Not a fan.
With that one tho I think I'm gonna end the video here, because
I don't want to look at anymore after that, this one's- this one's the end for me.
I hope that you did enjoy the video, I hope that you learned something, maybe. I- I dunno.
I'm hoping we all already knew this stuff, but as stated,
a lot of people don't know this stuff, which is very unfortunate, uh but, so...
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