Embrace the Discomfort. Period.
I sent a couple of tweets a little over a week ago about being on my period. Nothing graphic—just two generic tweets, one promoting menstrual cups (yeet) and the other about how my period was exacerbating my emotional response to an Avengers meme (still not over I love you 3000, tbh). This weekend, I had a few people approach me about these tweets and inform me that they felt I was oversharing, insinuating that social media was an inappropriate platform to share this kind of information. As a sociologist with a special interest in social issues, I, of course, took to Instagram to collect some additional data from my social circle. I posted a poll to my Instagram story asking about whether it was inappropriate to talk about periods on social media, and got the response that I expected: the majority of poll respondents voted that talking about periods on social media is acceptable. One hypothesis to support these findings is that the millennial social atmosphere encour