SMNTY Classics: Period Pride

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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4.0 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In the 1970s, Germaine Greer encouraged women to taste their own menstrual blood. These days, artists are creating work about periods to help erase the menstruation stigma. In this classic, Cristen and Caroline look at the evolution of period pride and discuss whether the in-your-face attitude is actually helping.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Annie in Samantha and welcome to Stuff I'm Never Told You,
0:08.5	production of I Heart Radio.
0:10.0	So Samantha, on the show, we've talked a lot about periods.
0:23.2	Yes.
0:24.2	We've talked about periods in horror movies and we used the excellent, I think it was excellent
0:28.7	upon period piece.
0:30.8	But we've talked about some of our most embarrassing instances of when a period arrived.
0:35.8	We've talked about our first periods.
0:37.7	And recently we had the people from Tampon Rock on the show and we mostly you.
0:45.7	I think everyone was open to it.
0:50.2	The conversation just flowed.
0:52.7	Flowed away.
0:53.7	Hey, nice pun.
0:54.7	Keep going.
0:55.7	I do not mean to do it, but thank you.
0:57.8	We have flowed away from that.
0:58.8	And so for today's classic, we want to bring this back since we have been talking about
1:02.6	it.
1:03.6	And I remember when this episode came out, it was around the time.
1:08.1	I don't know if you remember this Samantha, and I can't remember her names, so I'm being
1:11.0	very unhelpful.
1:12.0	But like when that singer or drum, I think she was a drummer.
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