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US girls got their first periods increasingly earlier over the last 50 years, new study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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And your basis for this assertion is...?
He still hasn't gotten his period.
Research study DESTROYED by GUESSES and LOGIC
Survey people who are likely to have that information, such as parents or doctors.
Can you cite sections of the JAMA paper for this?
They could just cite the linked article for this:
I think you'd remember how old you were when your dong first started gushing blood for the rest of your life.
Pretty fucking unlikely. Maybe if it's the kind where the blood is brownish at first, they wouldn't notice the first day, but once it gets thick and red and gushy by the beginning of the second day, it's all the more alarming if you don't know what to expect. Even if you learned about periods and aren't worried you definitely remember that first one. I was 11 and it was summer so 11.4
There is not a single afab person I know that doesn't remember when they got their first period.
I could tell you not only how old I was, but where I was, about what time of day it was when I first found out, and how long it lasted.
This idea that women and girl's memories and knowledge of our own bodies can't be trusted is nothing but good old fashioned misogyny, and it's this kind of bullshit assumption as a starting point that is one of a variety of reasons we get treated so much worse by medical professionals (and society in general, like when we get doubted and even blamed when we get sexually attacked or harassed).
Maybe instead of trying to pick holes in our experience, which you clearly know nothing about, just shut the fuck up and listen? You don't always have to chip in, your ignorant opinion really isn't that valuable..
Same! I remember there was some white discharge a few days before which was completely new to me. I remember where I was, what time of the day, what color panties and who I told about it right after. I would trust this data.
How well do you remember your first period?
I'm not qualified to answer this question, I merely provide citations for people who are too lazy to read the articles and simply go by social media post titles. These citations are also not necessarily an expression of my personal opinion.
General remarks: Memory recall is measureable / quantifiable to a certain degree: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620954812
Self-reports should only ever be used to augment better methods, but sometimes, it's all we have.
You don't just get to make an assertive claim without supporting evidence, even if it's in contradiction of another assertive claim. That which can be asserted without evidence (like the opinion you express here, supported by the merest incredulity) can be dismissed without evidence (like everyone here is doing of your opinion).
If you want to contradict the claim made without asserting your own claim contrary to, you must actually address the evidences for that claim, undermining, subverting, proving them false. This, successfully done, would lead an outside skeptic to the null hypothesis of "I don't know," rather than your frankly misogynistic hypothesis of, paraphrasing, "women don't know what they're talking about."