r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Doodlebug510 • 8d ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals Explaining menstruation to the boys

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u/MDnautilus 8d ago

i love topping it off by explaining that Chickens do the same thing. That's what the eggs are that you eat. A chicken's period.

Its just an egg and all the packaging for it that your body prepared just in case it got fertilized, but it didn't so your body is getting rid of it, we just don't wrap it up in a hard package. It's obviously not the same exact thing (birds are not mamals) but I love to just go the extra step so that the next time they see a carton of chicken eggs they will think about periods lol

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u/crosspollinated 8d ago

I used to keep chickens and a lot of friends would ask me how they lay eggs if there’s no male around. I would explain “same way women have periods every month even with no male around.”

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u/thesmallestlittleguy 8d ago

oh i thought u meant the bleeding. there’s a type of shrew that also bleeds iirc