CNBC
A woman’s health store in Japan is reportedly reviewing a plan for staff to wear badges when they are on their period.
The so-called “physiology badge” features a cartoon character named Seiri Chan, a symbol of menstruation in the world’s third-largest economy.
It was hoped that the badges would help foster sympathy among co-workers, with those choosing to wear the pin likely to receive extra help or longer breaks. More
Apparently, in Japan, “Miss Period” is a popular comic character who shares antics with other characters like “Mr Libido, Mr Virginity, and Little Miss PMS.” More
“It is sexist to think that a woman is emotionally unstable when she has her period.”
“It is sexist to not be more considerate towards a woman when she has her period because she is going to be a bit emotionally unstable.”
As a mature male I find the badge… information overload.
I already sympathize with females and their burden of being a female. I spent many moments during my formidable years sympathizing with females when t.v. ads broadcast kotex, tampons, midol and numerous other personal items.
Then came jock itch, penile implants and Viagra.
I suspect the plan is to lay everything out in the open….on a conveyer belt….for all the world to see.
I blame liberalism.
At least they got out of gym class….
How about a “I have gas” badge? It’d be much more useful.
^^^ I reckon that would be a Swalwell badge to go along with the signature model Whoopie cushion…
I notice it every time the trashcan is spilling over with pads.
So, when my bowels become irritable, it’s just a simple matter of wearing my undies inside-out like a hat, everyone will sympathize and maintain a polite distance?
Walk through downtown LA and you don’t need badges to know who’s shedding menses. It’s a distinctly different aroma from the sidewalk poops.
Just F-Y-I.
What worried me was when my girlfriends wore “Missed Period” buttons.
Just. Stop. It.
No one else needs to know, hear about, or think about, anyone’s period. It only concerns the woman having it.
That’s right, women push the cheap stereotypes on themselves and then wonder why people don’t take them seriously and why they’re assumed to be hysterical. At least counter it with a ‘small dick’ button for the men. Do you think any of them would wear those? LOL!
…I’d be OK with an “Impotence” badge for men.
…because, as some famous Old Hollywood type, maybe Clark Gable, is reputed to have once said, “I always tell women I’m impotent, because as soon as I do, they’re DYING to prove me wrong”…
@ MJA… I’d wear the “small dick” badge….but it sez “small dick’s motel, laundry, diner and horse livery”….
^^^I think that started life as a condom lettering joke, nicht wahr?
Wear your maxipad on the outside. Dumbasses.
Is there a Miss Comma badge?
@Anonymous November 29, 2019 at 11:26 pm
> Is there a Miss Comma badge?
TRANSPHOBIC! PERIODS CAN HAVE A DANGLY BIT!
“…badges? We don’ need no steenkin’ badges!”
Hilarious (kind of)
Actually they should only be required to wear these when at the bar, of perhaps a first date
Begs the 64 year old question, did we nuke Japan too much, or not enough?
New at Amazon Books:
“Pregnant Secretary” -Mister Period
“Hole in the Mattress” -Mister Completely
STUPID.
Nice thing about this idea is that then you know they have no excuse for being a bitch the other 3 wks/ month.
Very handy – if you let people get away with shit (especially women?), they get worse – unless they offer an EXCUSE or apology
Okay, the Japanese might be weird as shit, but I prefer the period chan manga approach to feminism and period awareness over the way we do it. :/