Social media has taken a pretty bad beating in the press lately, and with good reason. But, for all of its many, many glaring flaws, it sure is entertaining sometimes.
The drama gets a bit too real when it's happening to people in your immediate circles, but when it's strangers, grab the popcorn, amirite?
So many things can go wrong in 140 characters.
Just look at poor Twitter user @__sargee, for whom things went badly almost immediately after an unfortunate tweet.
It's safe to say that he has some misconceptions about period pain.
But when he decided to air his uninformed view on Twitter, tweeting that "Until women experience this, I don't wanna hear about period pains," alongside an image of a soccer player's scraped knees, folks out there were only too happy to help set the man straight.
And a little turf burn or a skinned knee simply couldn't compare to the pain women experience every month.
And they wanted @__sargee to know that period pains beat them all, hands down.
Doctors have said that period cramps can be as painful as heart attacks, and you have to think that heart attacks rate well above skinned knees on a pain scale.
There's no possible way to know for sure unless you've gone through both. Even those science experiments that try to equate the pain can't be the same as the real thing.
Also, I'm not entirely sure why this is a competition? Can't we all agree that pain is bad in general and suffering sucks?
I mean, I guess the saving grace to period pain is that it comes with a purpose, but that can't really take the edge off.
It's hard to say for sure if he learned from it all or not, however. If he didn't, it's not because of a lack of available resources.
Plus, it's not like dudes are skinning their knees every month all week?!
Periods? Absolutely not optional for most people, usually monthly, and usually more than one day long.
This guy's entire tweet about negating women's pain is literally based on A WOMAN'S SKINNED KNEES FROM 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
All that Twitter user @katmarsch had to do was a lil reverse image search.
I mean, we all know about Aunt Flow... But Uncle Patella? Truly hilarious.
Regular periods are literally your internal organs shedding layers, so there is that.
Women with endometriosis and fibroids literally experience significantly worse symptoms, sometimes all month long!
BOY BYE!!!!!!!
At the end of the day, if you've never had to experience the pain someone else has felt, it's never your place to have an opinion on it.
