Misogynatomy II: Women have periods because cavewomen didn’t eat meat, angry weirdo claims [UPDATE: He was joking]

Well damn. If only I didn’t love eating meat, I wouldn’t have to deal with a monthly pain-in-the-abs.

This is stupid even by vegan standards; and we blame meat eating for everything.

@Alan Robertshaw:

There is a certain subset of vegans, mostly those following one of the nutritionally deficient fad diets (fully raw, only fruits, etc.*) who actually claim that if you do veganism right, you don’t have menses.

They do this to rationalise away their malnutrition induced amenorrhea.

*Honestly, there’s this one woman who proposes a salad out of two heads of kale, some fruits, and lemon juice as dressing is a well balanced meal. Seriously. She also eats raw broccoli.

@takshak

Why am I drawing connections between this guy and “blood and soil” right-wing veganism?

That’s a thing? I thought the far right hated vegans and healthy eating, hence the insult “soy boys”.

I wonder how they explain menopause. No, wait, I don’t.
In related news, I thought I was done with this but another period snuck up on me. Had to send the husband out for emergency pads. WTF uterus.

Naglfar, there are right wingers who believe in living off the grid and following a vegan diet. There were some who were members of a Seventh Day Adventist Church near where I used to live. I believe David Koresh’s group in Waco, Texas were like that, too.

Speaking as a vegan woman, I wish meat didn’t cause periods. Having just gone through a particularly obnoxious one I can confirm that have a normal, healthy vegan diet will result in the usual visits from Aunt Flo.

@Mexican Hot Chocolate
This reminds me of something Cliff Pervocracy once said:

I’m not even explaining why this is wrong. I can’t. It’s like being asked “why wouldn’t tinfoil make a good tampon?” There’s so many different layers of wrong that I’m just going to trip over myself trying to pick which one to talk about first.
–Cliff “Pervocracy” Jerrison

He said it in reference to something else, but the point still holds. Plus there’s a menstruation reference.

Regarding raw broccoli – as far as I know, there’s nothing wrong with eating it unless you have a thyroid disease. It’s a goitrogen, which makes it somewhat risky for aggravating thyroid problems in people who have them. (Hi!)

That goes for all cruciferous vegetables, though. Steaming is a simple way to make them safer.

This concludes my unsolicited thyroid health Ted Talk. Carry on.

That’s a special someone who should have listenned and studied a bit during his high school biology class. He would have avoided sounding like a complete idiot for the world to see.

I mean, obviously if you’re a woman all your ancestors were women, and if you’re a man all your ancestors were men.

And obviously periods are composed of blood that leaks out of meat you eat. And meat is a MANLY FOOD for MEN ONLY.

Which is why, until recently, only men had periods.

I’m not even mad. This is great stuff.

@Crip Dyke
I find that a term that’s great for communicating that you eat a plant focused diet without people getting all purity tester is “flexitarian”. I like the category because it’s a lot easier to persuade people to decenter meat than to eliminate it.

@galanx:
That was the line that jumped out at me, too, mostly because it was just such an accurate condensation of the entirety of their belief system. Women are arm ornaments and not actual people.

Well, that and the proofreader in me twitched at the use of the wrong ‘Your’.