Why are periods handled so badly in Kpop?

This is actually really sad... Yikes...

I remember an idol told she didn’t get her periods for month then she travelled abroad for vacations and suddenly her periods came back and as soon she came back to Korea she didn’t get for months again.

that's pretty universal unfortunately, period pains/problems have never been taken seriously anywhere.

Sounds like future labor laws to me tbh.

doing choreos with period cramps must be hell

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It's like that in so many places. I will never forget the comment I saw once where a woman was in the middle of a multi-hour lecture and realized she had probably started her period. She asked to be excused to go and check and the professor gave her shit about it so she told him she was getting her period and he told her to just hold it.

I had that happen to me in just a regular class! Since mine were so heavy the seat was covered in blood because of him

Why are periods handled so badly EVERYWHERE? Why is women’s health placed second generally?

Don’t get me started on this. The lack of knowledge, support, assistance, research etc into gynaecological health has wrecked my life - and sadly countless others’ lives just that I know of personally.

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It's like that in so many places. I will never forget the comment I saw once where a woman was in the middle of a multi-hour lecture and realized she had probably started her period. She asked to be excused to go and check and the professor gave her shit about it so she told him she was getting her period and he told her to just hold it.

How the hell is a woman supposed to "hold it" for hours???

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I'm so sorry to hear that I have had issues in my life too and it's hard just finding help and getting taken seriously.

I'm surprised to hear this about SK though, cuz supposedly they are one of the better ones with regards to periods. They have laws about period leave there!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world…0have%20painful%20periods.

I didn’t know that about S Korea, but I’m just eternally unsurprised by general bad attitudes to ‘women’s problems’.

I’m sorry you have had difficulties too.

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How the hell is a woman supposed to "hold it" for hours???

it’s not about the length of time, it’s about the fact that periods are NOT the same as pee and you cannot “hold” it once it comes, even if for just 10 seconds. It’s a misconception many men have bc period blood and pee both come from a vagina and so to them that must mean they function the same, when they actually don’t lol. For your further health education, to put it simply, unlike the penis which only has 1 hole for both semen and pee (the urethra), the vagina has 1 separate for pee (the urethral opening) and 1 separate for periods (the vaginal opening), hence why women can “hold” pee but literally can’t for periods even if they want to. It’s impossible lol

That's horrible.

I hear irregular menstrual cycles being highlighted a lot when it comes to women's health issues. There are a myriad of other health issues so for it to be highlighted it's gotta be pretty bad.

Like I know it's a bad thing but I'm not sure why....can someone enlighten me why...

Sorry if this sounds dumb but, why did they not take period cramp pill? The cramp pain should turn mild within an hour. It is available at any drug store and no prescription is needed to buy. In high school, the nurse at infirmary let students took the pill freely.

First before all, I wonder why did not they take contraceptive pill. Is there a stigma against the pill in SK? It is commonly used to delay period in my country, even widely used as acne treatment.

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Sorry if this sounds dumb but, why did they not take period cramp pill? The cramp pain should turn mild within an hour. It is available at any drug store and no prescription is needed to buy. In high school, the nurse at infirmary let students took the pill freely.

First before all, I wonder why did not they take contraceptive pill. Is there a stigma against the pill in SK? It is commonly used to delay period in my country, even widely used as acne treatment.

Periods are not one size fits all. I don't know what magic non prescription pill you're talking about but I never had a non-narcotic med that could touch the dehabilitating pain I used to have with my periods.

Similarly, contraceptive pills are not a panacea either. Some women have issues with the hormones, some women still have tremendously heavy and ferocious periods despite trying many different kinds of contraceptive pills (I'm speaking from personal experience here) and had to go on additional meds just to stop a heavy never-ending period.

I agree with commenters upthread about how women's health issues and periods in particular get handled shittily. One of the most wonderful things about being a female manager (and yet heartbreaking things) is the visible relief and the thanks a female employee has when she needs to run home and change because of a bleedthrough and so is happy to have an empathetic female manager (and not feel embarrassed just talking about it.) Or when you are known as having the secret supply store in the office.

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Sorry if this sounds dumb but, why did they not take period cramp pill? The cramp pain should turn mild within an hour. It is available at any drug store and no prescription is needed to buy. In high school, the nurse at infirmary let students took the pill freely.

First before all, I wonder why did not they take contraceptive pill. Is there a stigma against the pill in SK? It is commonly used to delay period in my country, even widely used as acne treatment.

It took me years to find a birth control pill that didn't give me awful side effects. Why would an idol want to risk things like gaining 20 pounds or terrible acne when it'd only bring them major hate?

I know there are other women on this forum who suffer with endometriosis so I’m going to highlight this here as well.

This is a disease which affects a staggering 1-10 women, but generally takes seven years to diagnose, is frequently dismissed and sidelined as ‘just bad periods’ in spite of being a debilitating whole body disease, has often catastrophic effects on woman’s lives and is still not taught as a medical or surgical speciality at any point. There is no currently no cure. For me, after five surgeries, countless types of contraceptive prescription, being forced into pseudo menopause for months (with a drug btw that is used as a PUNISHMENT for sex offenders in places to cause chemical castration!) I face the bitter truth that even a full hysterectomy is unlikely to give me relief from the debilitating pain I face daily. Not to mention that hysterectomies come with a host of other potential side effects and rest of life risks.

I cannot explain how much difference it has made to work in an environment with only other women, so I least get some f*cking *empathy* in the workplace.

I’m shocked things are that bad in a lot of places honestly.

I remember in high school we were encouraged to let them know if periods got that bad and you could usually go home. Also to call ahead and let the school know if you were going to be absent for that reason. I’ve also never seen any teacher refuse female students permission to leave the room. Pretty sure lecturers don’t even have that kind of power over anyone.

I remember in 8th grade I got my period on the day we were having p.e and we were supposed to be swimming. I was scared out of my mind in case I got exposed in the water and I guess my teacher could see my reluctance to go and change. I was too embarrassed to tell him about it but he must have guessed because he told me to just sit this one out and told me to take notes for him. I was so shocked because he was known as a hard ass and terrified all the students because he was so strict and unapproachable.

Even in work places women are entitled to a Mother’s Day every month even though it’s only one day. It doesn’t affect their pay in any way.

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I know there are other women on this forum who suffer with endometriosis so I’m going to highlight this here as well.

This is a disease which affects a staggering 1-10 women, but generally takes seven years to diagnose, is frequently dismissed and sidelined as ‘just bad periods’ in spite of being a debilitating whole body disease, has often catastrophic effects on woman’s lives and is still not taught as a medical or surgical speciality at any point. There is no currently no cure. For me, after five surgeries, countless types of contraceptive prescription, being forced into pseudo menopause for months (with a drug btw that is used as a PUNISHMENT for sex offenders in places to cause chemical castration!) I face the bitter truth that even a full hysterectomy is unlikely to give me relief from the debilitating pain I face daily. Not to mention that hysterectomies come with a host of other potential side effects and rest of life risks.

I cannot explain how much difference it has made to work in an environment with only other women, so I least get some f*cking *empathy* in the workplace.

I'm so sorry you have gone through this.

It is scary how our health issues are regularly dismissed or misdiagnosed. Then the lack of empathy when it comes to pain..

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Periods are not one size fits all. I don't know what magic non prescription pill you're talking about but I never had a non-narcotic med that could touch the dehabilitating pain I used to have with my periods.

Similarly, contraceptive pills are not a panacea either. Some women have issues with the hormones, some women still have tremendously heavy and ferocious periods despite trying many different kinds of contraceptive pills (I'm speaking from personal experience here) and had to go on additional meds just to stop a heavy never-ending period.

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It took me years to find a birth control pill that didn't give me awful side effects. Why would an idol want to risk things like gaining 20 pounds or terrible acne when it'd only bring them major hate?

LMFAO. You used rare odd to negate the general usage of the drug. Your arguments were just the same as answering "Why is not aspirin widely used in some countries?" with "Coz they are very extremely rare cases where it is not effective".

Period cramp pill is NSAID, not at all addictive. From rough reading on the drug, it is safe unless taken in high dose or for several days or the person has underlying disease/symptom (bad kidney/liver, bad gastritis , allergic to NSAID etc.). From what I've seen, usually, a girl has bad cramp only 1 day per each cycle so, the pill should be safe to use. NSAID is a very commonly used drug family and aspirin is a member of NSAID despite a weak one.

Contraceptive pill may be used to heal acne.

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Many men can’t understand period pains because they don’t experience it. They often think it’s an excuse to skip work etc, especially if you’re the only female who seems to have massive cramps.

That’s why more female managers or women in leading positions are needed. If you work with women this is necessary. Many Guys have more understanding towards issues regrading men because they are men themself. That’s why many GG‘s are often mismanaged. Either in cases like this or issues within the Group itself because male managers can’t understand their problems.

Lol. Sympathy is genderless. One needs not to experience migraine to understand if a migraine colleague need a rest when his/her disease acts up.

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Sympathy is genderless

Apparently it's fucking not. Because women get hysterical and make a deal out of anything

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LMFAO. You used rare odd to negate the general usage of the drug. Your arguments were just the same as answering "Why is not aspirin widely used in some countries?" with "Coz they are very extremely rare cases where it is not effective".

Period cramp pill is NSAID, not at all addictive. From rough reading on the drug, it is safe unless taken in high dose or for several days or the person has underlying disease/symptom (bad kidney/liver, bad gastritis , allergic to NSAID etc.). From what I've seen, usually, a girl has bad cramp only 1 day per each cycle so, the pill should be safe to use. NSAID is a very commonly used drug family and aspirin is a member of NSAID despite a weak one.

Contraceptive pill may be used to heal acne.

Lol. Sympathy is genderless. One needs not to experience migraine to understand if a migraine colleague need a rest when his/her disease acts up.

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If you're a man which I'm guessing you are maybe you should not try to mainsplain things you don't know or understand to women who are trying to explain the truth to you?

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usually, a girl has bad cramp only 1 day per each cycle

Also that's so immensely wrong

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that's pretty universal unfortunately, period pains/problems have never been taken seriously anywhere.

Exactly. It's not only idols and not only Korea. It's around the world...

My cousin periods were so bad that every month she needed to have drip for 3 days when it lasted or she would be severely dehydrated

We're just women run by chauvinistic men who don't care about women's problems.

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LMFAO. You used rare odd to negate the general usage of the drug. Your arguments were just the same as answering "Why is not aspirin widely used in some countries?" with "Coz they are very extremely rare cases where it is not effective".

Period cramp pill is NSAID, not at all addictive. From rough reading on the drug, it is safe unless taken in high dose or for several days or the person has underlying disease/symptom (bad kidney/liver, bad gastritis , allergic to NSAID etc.). From what I've seen, usually, a girl has bad cramp only 1 day per each cycle so, the pill should be safe to use. NSAID is a very commonly used drug family and aspirin is a member of NSAID despite a weak one.

Contraceptive pill may be used to heal acne.

Lol. Sympathy is genderless. One needs not to experience migraine to understand if a migraine colleague need a rest when his/her disease acts up.

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You sound like a boy