Menstrual taboos are as old as time and found across cultures. They’ve been used to separate women from men physically. Menstrual huts are still a thing, and socially, by creating the perception that a natural bodily function is a sign of weakness. Even in today’s world, women are deemed unfit for positions of power because some men actually believe they won’t be able to handle stressful situations while menstruating.

“Menstruation is an opening for attack: a mark of shame, a sign of weakness, an argument to keep women out of positions of power,” Colin Schultz wrote in Popular Science in 2014. The big problem with menstrual taboos is the way that males are (or are not) educated on the subject leaves them with a patchwork of ideas that don’t necessarily add up to the whole picture. First, there’s the information they get from growing up with women in the house.

Then, there are the cryptic descriptions of menstruation seen in advertising and the cold, scientific way the topic is taught in sex education.

Why are men so clueless about........

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