Common Sense From Jkrowling Again

[pastafreak]

Since when should girls and women have to *prove* they are in pain?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13945869/School-backtracks-period-pain-policy-JK-Rowling.html

[wolf63]

How can you prove when you are in pain?

Some weird folk making weirder decisions.😂

[naomi24]

Not since when - but how?  How can anyone 'prove' they are in pain.

[tomus42]

Pain is not a provable thing. It's subjective as everyone knows.

I suspect Daily Mail nonsense is at work here.

[jno]

has anyone ever had to prove they have manflu?

[pastafreak]

Never mind manflu...they don’t even need to prove they are male.

[jourdain2]

In my early teens I was regularly sent home from school by the headmistress. It was quite obvious that I was in pain - white, hunched etc..  I would put myself to bed with a hot water bottle.  My mum thought I'd bunked off - but school explained. 

When Iwas 16 and working during the holidays in the office at Salts mill (where Mum also worked) she finally believed me and accepted the mill nurse's advice to teke me to the doctor's.  At last I got medication and the monthly torture stopped.

It's obvious if a girl is in pain, surely. No one needs to prove anything.

[ToraToraTora]

What about the male pupils with period pain? Damn Bigots! 😉

[Old_Geezer]

They only get that when in a long term relationship.

[ladybirder]

Every first day of my period was absolute agony and I couldn't get out of bed except to stagger to the loo.  That went on for a couple of years if I remember correctly.  Then I got some sort of tablet which just made it stop.  Oh the relief I can still feel it.

[pastafreak]

Reading the comments to the article, it seems a fair number of young women had mothers who didn't believe they had terrible pain. I suppose if you've not experienced it yourself and have not spoken to friends...then it doesn't exist. Thankfully we are far more open now.

[Rosetta]

Has anyone else noticed that these sorts of edicts, which are basically anti-female, are made by  men or men who want us to believe they are women. 

Good on JK for challenging this nonsense. I am only sorry that she gets such vile abuse for it