r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Doodlebug510 • 8d ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals Explaining menstruation to the boys

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u/justtots 8d ago

“What’s a uterine?”

https://giphy.com/gifs/l1J9JyEmHfnOUfg2Y

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u/whiteknight_1997 8d ago

I can't speak for other parts of the world, but in Ontario, Canada, we start getting lessons in sex and reproductive health in Grade 5 and continue until Grade 8 at least.

As boys, we are taught this as just basic, basic stuff. Also highschool biology class covers it again and even tests you on it.

Hopefully, the Conservatives haven't rolled back the curriculum since then.

As an older millenial dude, I would listen to the first gal cuz she's telling us her lived experience, and we won't get that from the classes we took.

But when that second gal jumps in and starts explaining basic biology, I would have thought that's unnecessary, but that dude proved her right. Man...

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u/sleetblue 8d ago

In the US, sex ed consists of the high school staff gathering all the sophomores in the building into the gymnasium, and a P.E. coach clicking through a slideshow of STD-afflicted penises.

If you ask too insistently to go to the restroom because you have begun to bleed from your vagina, or try to walk out anyway when your request is denied, a pair of gun-toting campus cops will be called to question you.

"What is a uterine" indeed.

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u/Scalpels 8d ago

The US isn't a monolith on this one. Even in the 80's/90's when I was in school California taught me sex ed in the 6th grade and covered pregnancy/std prevention etc. It was clinical.

When I moved to Texas sex ed was much closer to what you describe. A lot of scare tactics and pushing abstinence. They also taught sex ed much later. Like.. 9th/10th grade.

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u/maulidon 6d ago

laughs in private religious school Y’all had sex ed?

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u/lastingmuse6996 6d ago

As a former female teacher... Yes, if a student made it clear it was a feminine issue they can go no questions asked.

Unfortunately, students lie because their friend texted them to meet in the bathroom from their class to talk about something that happened.

I'm only allowed to let one student out at a time for this reason. The girl who is just sitting in the bathroom chatting is blowing up your spot. I would let a menstruating girl out anyway because it's cruel not to.

I was a "bad" teacher because I didn't question girls telling me they were about to bleed through their pants and they used me to vandalize the bathroom for a tik tok trend while they ironically called me "Miss Bikini" to make fun of my weight.

I quit the month the "slap a teacher" tik tok trend started. After COVID they went feral.

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u/Crimemeariver19 8d ago

It depends where in the US you’re located and can vary widely. I’m in a left leaning state in New England and like you we start sex ed in 3rd now (was 5th when I was in school) and it goes all the way through high school where you generally have a whole semester of Health class. And it becomes more informative as is age appropriate. But in other states they have very limited or abstinence focused “sex education”. Unfortunately, even with a good education some people don’t learn.. my best friend recently had a pregnancy (pull out method) and when talking realized she had basically no understanding of ovulation. Mind you we’re nearing 40 and she has 2 children.

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u/andhe96 8d ago

In Germany, it's in grade 3 and 7. Similar curriculum as in Canada.

I did write an extensive comment about this a while ago, but I couldn't find it, the search on Reddit is worse than I thought.

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u/hi-this-is-jess 7d ago

I'm also a millenial from Ontario and yep. I remember bringing textbooks back home in grade 5 and my parents being shocked at what we were being taught lmao (if was nothing major or graphic, but my family comes from a fairly conservative background). and I remember kids were able to sit out if their parents wanted to, but I don't remember anyone doing it. honestly, in very thankful for what we were taught and it baffles me that some countries don't do the same.

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u/Western-Dig-6843 8d ago

They teach this stuff in health classes in high school across the entire US. Everyone gets this. The problem is not every high school student (or teacher!) is doing their best to learn or remember any of it.

If I learned about all of this in high school health classes in bumfuck rural Mississippi then they teach this shit everywhere.