http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/01/28/the-guy-with-a-good-attitude-toward-menstruation/ Blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:25:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/01/28/the-guy-with-a-good-attitude-toward-menstruation/comment-page-1/#comment-885 Heather D Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:33:05 +0000 http://menstruationresearch.org/?p=2102#comment-885 What I think is also telling here is that the skit is illustrative of how conscious men are of how or when they ARE supportive. It is the interruption of the normal and, as evidenced by this skit, the interruption is often a very conscious act. You have to steel yourself against what is normal as you act against it. I just went to see Menopause: The Musical for the first time and there were probably about 20 men in the audience, along with about 1000 women. I could tell every one of those men had consciously thought about what they were doing there and how it would feel to be there. As evidenced by this skit, it is almost as if individual men have to see themselves as individual heroes of sorts, working against all odds, to support menstruation and go against mainstream masculinity? And part of the comedy is that we are supposed to think the heroes are pathetic in their crusades... What I think is also telling here is that the skit is illustrative of how conscious men are of how or when they ARE supportive. It is the interruption of the normal and, as evidenced by this skit, the interruption is often a very conscious act. You have to steel yourself against what is normal as you act against it. I just went to see Menopause: The Musical for the first time and there were probably about 20 men in the audience, along with about 1000 women. I could tell every one of those men had consciously thought about what they were doing there and how it would feel to be there. As evidenced by this skit, it is almost as if individual men have to see themselves as individual heroes of sorts, working against all odds, to support menstruation and go against mainstream masculinity? And part of the comedy is that we are supposed to think the heroes are pathetic in their crusades…

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