On your period your uterus is shedding its old lining it had prepped and chucking it out of your vagina along with blood clots, mucus, blood. Itās chunky and very fun to deal with every three weeks
for some people it is. For me mine is every 30 something days but my bathroom is bloodier than the battle of the somme for a solid 8 days + cramps for more than half the time
Well one out of four weeks is spent on your period for most women. If youāre regular it starts roughly every thirty days but you really only get three weeks off. I worded it poorly, my bad
Blood and uterine tissue are expelled during your period so you get a nice mix of normal liquidy blood, big clots of jello, and chunks of uterine lining. Youāre welcome :)
Thereās a lot of poor attitude about it too. People thinking itās gross, they ādonāt have to worry about itā, or just not caring. But itās something half the world experiences, why would you intentionally hold on to ignorance?
The menstrual cycle is primarily for shedding uterine lining. Thatās actual bodily tissue, not just random blood for the sake of inexplicably bleeding. And so, naturally, thereās going to be chunks sometimes.
Blood clots and uterine lining - meaning thereās actual bloody flesh coming out and thick blood clots.
Think of hocking a big thick loogie after being sick for days, now make that loogie dark red almost black, thatās what the blood clots are like consistency-wise.
Thatās where the ājellyfish in your panties when you sneezeā jokes come from.
Uterine lining plus blood. If you have any fibroids or other health issues it can be a lot of ānormal bloodā but that is not actually normal or healthy.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
ššš then you look down astonished that your body just shlopped that out of you. Honestly I would rather it in the shower than when you just stand up after sitting. That is the worst one. Or you sneeze and it comes shooting out of you. ššš
"shooting out of you" manifested the idea of someone firing blood clots as a self defense thing. which. i couldn't be left alone with that mental image.
I want to stop imagining it but the image is so visceral i fear it's branded to my eyelids! imagine getting HIT with a period clot. also, image standing there while someone prepares to shoot one at you
Imagine being the poor burglar. You break in, rummaging under the Christmas tree and some lass runs in, lifts her leg so her foot is above her head and just fires a ball of blood and slime at you.Ā
Kind of gross, but me and my gf were doing the deed when she was on and she fired what I can only describe would be the result of stamping on a strawberry juice box across the bed.
For anyone who doesnāt understand: when a woman has her period, the uterus creates little, dark red jellyfish-like creatures. If a woman has had sexual intercourse in the last month, these jellyfish scoop the sperm up with their tentacles and consume it as nourishment, eventually growing into a baby. Usually, the biggest, strongest jellyfish takes all of the sperm, while the others starve. This is where āsurvival of the fittestā comes from.
If a woman hasnāt had sexual intercourse in the last month, the jellyfish starve and die. This is what periods are. First, the jellyfish die and begin to bleed. Then, as described by the post, their little reddish black corpses begin to fall out of the uterus.
Hope this clears it up for those who donāt understand basic female anatomy.
just to add some clarification to your already very detailed and astute comment, the creature is only hungry for sperm about two weeks after a womanās period. IT WILL NOT EAT BEFORE OR AFTER THIS TIME. Itās quite particular about that, but it is worth noting that you can put food in the oven up to a few days before then and it will eat it when itās hungry.
"basic female anatomy" they didn't teach this in O Level. They used phrases like break down of uterus lining and blood clot, making it sound sort of like peeing but with blood. They said nothing about alien jelly coming out of you, trust me I would've remembered.
Also survival of the fittest "come" from many other places too. Like the drag race sperms do to see who gets to the egg first.
I have to be honest. As a woman, I didnāt realize how much I DIDNāT know until I was trying to explain to my teen daughter the whole 28 day ovulation thing. I had to stop and look it up!š
When I was a teenager I went to an amusement park with several of my female friends and they all had to go use the restroom after the first roller coaster ride
For people really struggling to understand. It's clotted blood going "splat" on the floor...
(Edit: Jesus Christ- I thought more guys would understand female biology, I did not mean to shock all of you with this explanation, please take care of yourselves out there men!)
What's wild is that's literally how they tested tampons and pads for like. Fucking forever. They only started using blood/blood analogs instead of just blue water a couple years ago IIRC
In all fairness, its not something you usually go into detail with family and doesnt come up in conversation with Friends either. You learn about It and get a general idea, yeah, but you dont really think about It that much.Ā
From descriptions, I thought It would be a trickle/gush of Blood with clots. Never expected the description as "black jellyfish".Ā
Yeah it's a much more taboo subject to discuss as a man because you don't exactly have many women in your life that would be willing to go into detail.
Each gender is wildly confused about the other, because it turns out that they're not of said gender!
My family is mostly older women and they ALL avoid ever mentioning the menstrual cycle like the PLAGUE (probably out of shame because they're old). My own sister had endometriosis for years and I didn't know until a week before her hysterectomy. I'm her brother! I'm not even squeamish about that kind of stuff at all. This, combined with shitty sex ed and there's no wonder so few guys know about this stuff. Bear in mind I find this kind of thing interesting. Imagine how little a guy who either doesn't care or actively doesn't want to know would be aware of.
In my family you were shamed and ridiculed if you mentioned being on your period, any issues or health issue talks were shut down, and men would turn into fully grown babies over unused tampons still in the packages. It really varies how society treats it but when itās a stereotype for boyfriends get all childish over just picking up some tampons for their gfs, I meanā¦ men generally treat it as an icky thing that should never be talked about. Some men need to be better about receiving the info and also listening to whatās said.
Btw fun fact the first official published study on endometriosis was not about how it impacted the women who had it, it was about how it impacted their partners.
I mean, how often do you have open discussions about it with your male friends and family members?
I'm not for a second suggesting that we shouldn't be in the know, but I for one didn't know the blood could clot and fall out like that and I felt I had at least a decent understanding about how periods work.
But it's not something people generally have discussions about, I know I certainly haven't, all the information I know is from generally 'known' information and I appreciate the information you have provided, so thank you.
I actually used to suffer from a bloody nose a lot and this one time, I got a bloody nose for well over 20 minutes. I had clogged my nose and the clot it ended up forming probably resembles the descriptions I'm reading here quite well. Makes sense to me that the same can happen to period blood, very interesting!
It's not just clotted blood like your describing with your nose, in this scenario, it could be clotted/dead blood, but it's also the entire lining of the uterus, so it's quite jarring (trust me, don't look it up)
SOMETIMES, (like last week) it's actually just a piece of purple tissue with blood on it. Like if you cut a strip of liver....actually, that's exactly what it's like.Ā
It's when it's huge and you feel it drop that it gets somewhat concerning. Then you gotta waffle stomp it down the drain.Ā
If you don't clear the hair from the drain first there will be regrets.Ā
Period blood/tissue can be various colors. Pink, bright red, dark red, black, brown, etc. Darker colors are usually due to the blood taking longer to exit the body and having more time to oxidize. It's all normal though.
bright red blood CAN indicate hemorrhoids, however more generally bright red blood is going to be due to bleeding at the lower end of the GI tract, whereas dark/black blood will be due to bleeding higher up the GI tract
Clots colour can vary and it will be from dark red to black. So yeah. However when they ādissolveā due to contact with warm water they will turn water red.
Had 11 in one day and I passed out in between most of them before more horrible stabbing pains. I was completely worn out the next day. It takes everything out of you man.
With my first I had a c-section and due to some complications post-surgery I was bed-bound for a bit longer than they usually like. When I was finally able to get up out of bed the nurse helping me up just said ādonāt look backā
I would've said "make even crazier monkey noises back" but given their smooth chronic online gamer brain, they'd probably end up thinking you're responding positively to their mating call.
Ok for men who donāt know: womenās period is the act of our uterus shedding its lining. And it isnāt just red blood spots on the pads/tampons. When we take shower, the blood still comes outā¦ along with black clots (our very uterus lining). Thatās the black ājellyfishā.
Without context, the idea of your reproductive organs literally just rotting and falling out of your body is true body horror.
Actually, no, even with context itās still very much body horror. Fellow bros, our equivalent to that would be our foreskins growing back every month and we have to shed it like a snake by ripping it off or else it wouldā¦ harden. Lots of respect that women have to put up with that; biologically we really got the easy route.
I hope this doesn't count as my one annual "erm akshually" moment, but there us no rotting involved. It just sheds. Any rotting tissue would lead to massive sepsis risk once a month. And despite how shitty nature can be, this oversight would have corrected itself eons ago
I mean, I've been with my partner 10 years and I've never seen her black jellyfishes š¤Ø Neither has she told me about this being something that can happen.
As a dude who neither bleeds often (or really at all, not for a while) and doesnāt have blood coagulation at the forefront of his mind, I did not understand immediately.
I used to have an ex boyfriend who would say āI donāt trust anything that bleeds for seven days and doesnāt dieā š it was entirely insulting and stupid.
As a dude, I've never understood that saying. Something that bleeds for seven days and doesn't die sounds like something you can really rely on come hell or high water.
One time i was standing naked in my room and i had a white carpet under me. I feel it slipping out and i ninja move CATCH IT, then i waddle to the bathroom :3 im sorry for any trauma i just caused anyone
The men in here looking it up and coming here to say they wish they hadnātā¦.. imagine when Iām just going about my day and I sneeze and I feel all the blood gushing out of me. Like you canāt hold it in.
Instead of coming out like a flow of blood (like a cut anywhere else on your body) (although sometimes it does flow) period blood mostly comes out in jellylike mucosal chunks because a period isnāt just bleeding.
The uterus has a thick lining it builds up through the cycle, it needs to have this lining for if you get pregnant. When an egg is fertilized the zygote burrows into the uterine wall and if there isnāt enough stuff there to latch to either you miscarry or it digs too deep into your important shit instead. This lining has the capacity to get old and rot, so human women shed it off if there is no pregnancy for it to support.
This is globs of bloody tissue coming out alongside the bleeding from the shedding, and depending on how thick the tissue piece coming out is it can look black. This is the āblack jellyfishā
Usually it comes out in chunks but in rare cases itāll peel off whole, thatās particularly neat.
Sometimes big chunks cause pain, alongside the normal pain from the muscle contractions trying to pass it all out.
NOT SO FUN FACT: decidual cast is when the entire uterus lining doesn't break down and it just comes out in the shape of the uterus along with normal period blood
This meme does a good job of exposing just how high a percentage of virgins there are on Reddit. You knew it was higher than the average social media, but this is comically high.
The worst is when you wipe and see your new alien baby
I died at this comment because its so true š
Im a teenage guy, i can't even begin to comprehend what that was about.
letās just say, itās more than just blood that comes out
Wait there more
On your period your uterus is shedding its old lining it had prepped and chucking it out of your vagina along with blood clots, mucus, blood. Itās chunky and very fun to deal with every three weeks
Wait it's every 3 WEEKS?
for some people it is. For me mine is every 30 something days but my bathroom is bloodier than the battle of the somme for a solid 8 days + cramps for more than half the time
My girl's got endometriosis a little and all I can do is watch as the Somme tries to take her alive š
This comment chain gave me more PTSD than the entire collection of WW1 and 2 documentaries together
Well one out of four weeks is spent on your period for most women. If youāre regular it starts roughly every thirty days but you really only get three weeks off. I worded it poorly, my bad
Bro I am 42 and married with 3 kids and I have no fucking clue.
Blood and uterine tissue are expelled during your period so you get a nice mix of normal liquidy blood, big clots of jello, and chunks of uterine lining. Youāre welcome :)
clears throat not yummers.
maybe if youāre weak
This is not an attack on you. Isn't it sad we as a society dont teach health information so people know what to expect.
Thereās a lot of poor attitude about it too. People thinking itās gross, they ādonāt have to worry about itā, or just not caring. But itās something half the world experiences, why would you intentionally hold on to ignorance?
It sometimes felt like giving birth to something. The sensation always made me shudder.
As someone who's given birth, passing a clot feels a lot like delivering the placenta.
Which is a more pleasant sensation than delivering the baby.
You just made my wife, who was reading this over my shoulder, snort like a boar with this one š
Lol I like how Reddit can be a couples activity.
Itās really true that couples who Reddit together, stay togetherĀ
Which is funny, because it's a running meme that every third comment on relationship-related posts are to break up/get divorced š¤£
what the fuck I thought it just bled normal blood?
The menstrual cycle is primarily for shedding uterine lining. Thatās actual bodily tissue, not just random blood for the sake of inexplicably bleeding. And so, naturally, thereās going to be chunks sometimes.
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Squishy.
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Iām learning more & more about something I didnāt wanna know.
No they're soft and marshmallowy!
Blood clots and uterine lining - meaning thereās actual bloody flesh coming out and thick blood clots.
Think of hocking a big thick loogie after being sick for days, now make that loogie dark red almost black, thatās what the blood clots are like consistency-wise.
Thatās where the ājellyfish in your panties when you sneezeā jokes come from.
Uterine lining plus blood. If you have any fibroids or other health issues it can be a lot of ānormal bloodā but that is not actually normal or healthy.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
Iron within?
For the machine is immortal š¤
ššš then you look down astonished that your body just shlopped that out of you. Honestly I would rather it in the shower than when you just stand up after sitting. That is the worst one. Or you sneeze and it comes shooting out of you. ššš
"shooting out of you" manifested the idea of someone firing blood clots as a self defense thing. which. i couldn't be left alone with that mental image.
š I wish i could use them like ballistics! Pew pew! God imagine that's what you get shot with trying to break into someone's house š
I just had an unwanted visual of a vaguely Sailor Moon character doing a high kick while projectile period-ing a bad guy. Lunar FLOW!! š āØ
I want to stop imagining it but the image is so visceral i fear it's branded to my eyelids! imagine getting HIT with a period clot. also, image standing there while someone prepares to shoot one at you
Wouldnāt you just open your mouth to catch it and give the clot a new home, like a good human? Itās all about recycling in 2025.
Yeah, you know what, it really is my fault for reading this...
Youāve ruined my day.
Sometimes we have thoughts, but that doesnt mean we have to share them with everyone
Imagine being the poor burglar. You break in, rummaging under the Christmas tree and some lass runs in, lifts her leg so her foot is above her head and just fires a ball of blood and slime at you.Ā
Poor bastard could never look at jam again.
Binding of issac moment
There's a reptile that shoots blood from its eye's as self defense mechanism. Don't remember which species though.
EDIT: It's the horned lizard.
play The Binding of Isaac
Or you just finished using the toilet and sit back down and feel a clump exit..... I just fucking wiped where the fuck where you then!?
š ugh yes! Especially because I just put a new pad on! Come on! Figure your shit out!
It's worse when you finish showering, feeling clean and refreshed then that mf decides to pop out just before you get out the shower ugh
Kind of gross, but me and my gf were doing the deed when she was on and she fired what I can only describe would be the result of stamping on a strawberry juice box across the bed.
Sex can cause a lot of dislodging
Man, thanks for that visual imagery. I'm going to bed now. That's enough internet for the day.
Ngl I just coughed so hard from a bong rip and I felt the alien baby shooting out of me šš I effing hate that feeling so much.
Fellas I think I might be gay
Only the most heterosexual among us can read this and not barf a little.
How else do you think we earn our red wings?? :)
Only the best captains can sail the red sea
Stop.
keep going
hammertime
This is the turd bobbing up from the period blood in the toilet.
For anyone who doesnāt understand: when a woman has her period, the uterus creates little, dark red jellyfish-like creatures. If a woman has had sexual intercourse in the last month, these jellyfish scoop the sperm up with their tentacles and consume it as nourishment, eventually growing into a baby. Usually, the biggest, strongest jellyfish takes all of the sperm, while the others starve. This is where āsurvival of the fittestā comes from.
If a woman hasnāt had sexual intercourse in the last month, the jellyfish starve and die. This is what periods are. First, the jellyfish die and begin to bleed. Then, as described by the post, their little reddish black corpses begin to fall out of the uterus.
Hope this clears it up for those who donāt understand basic female anatomy.
I shouldnāt have had to scroll so much to get to the correct answer
just to add some clarification to your already very detailed and astute comment, the creature is only hungry for sperm about two weeks after a womanās period. IT WILL NOT EAT BEFORE OR AFTER THIS TIME. Itās quite particular about that, but it is worth noting that you can put food in the oven up to a few days before then and it will eat it when itās hungry.
This sounds like something Calvin's dad from Calvin and Hobbes would say
Do women name these jellyfishes? Do they know they are jellyfishes? Are they sentient? Can they speak?
Asking for myself. Please respond
"basic female anatomy" they didn't teach this in O Level. They used phrases like break down of uterus lining and blood clot, making it sound sort of like peeing but with blood. They said nothing about alien jelly coming out of you, trust me I would've remembered.
Also survival of the fittest "come" from many other places too. Like the drag race sperms do to see who gets to the egg first.
I have to be honest. As a woman, I didnāt realize how much I DIDNāT know until I was trying to explain to my teen daughter the whole 28 day ovulation thing. I had to stop and look it up!š
Or when you sneeze or laugh and feel a Chunk slide outā¦. Truly one of lifeās experiences
When I was a teenager I went to an amusement park with several of my female friends and they all had to go use the restroom after the first roller coaster ride
For people really struggling to understand. It's clotted blood going "splat" on the floor...
(Edit: Jesus Christ- I thought more guys would understand female biology, I did not mean to shock all of you with this explanation, please take care of yourselves out there men!)
Sorry, sanitary pads and tampons ads taught me that period is a few drops of undefined blue liquid
What's wild is that's literally how they tested tampons and pads for like. Fucking forever. They only started using blood/blood analogs instead of just blue water a couple years ago IIRC
Yup and realized that since blood was thicker, pads weren't that efficient (which won't shock women :).
Oh my god so true
I've been doing it wrong this whole time?!
The collective male confusion is insane.
In all fairness, its not something you usually go into detail with family and doesnt come up in conversation with Friends either. You learn about It and get a general idea, yeah, but you dont really think about It that much.Ā
From descriptions, I thought It would be a trickle/gush of Blood with clots. Never expected the description as "black jellyfish".Ā
Yeah it's a much more taboo subject to discuss as a man because you don't exactly have many women in your life that would be willing to go into detail.
Each gender is wildly confused about the other, because it turns out that they're not of said gender!
My family is mostly older women and they ALL avoid ever mentioning the menstrual cycle like the PLAGUE (probably out of shame because they're old). My own sister had endometriosis for years and I didn't know until a week before her hysterectomy. I'm her brother! I'm not even squeamish about that kind of stuff at all. This, combined with shitty sex ed and there's no wonder so few guys know about this stuff. Bear in mind I find this kind of thing interesting. Imagine how little a guy who either doesn't care or actively doesn't want to know would be aware of.
In my family you were shamed and ridiculed if you mentioned being on your period, any issues or health issue talks were shut down, and men would turn into fully grown babies over unused tampons still in the packages. It really varies how society treats it but when itās a stereotype for boyfriends get all childish over just picking up some tampons for their gfs, I meanā¦ men generally treat it as an icky thing that should never be talked about. Some men need to be better about receiving the info and also listening to whatās said.
Btw fun fact the first official published study on endometriosis was not about how it impacted the women who had it, it was about how it impacted their partners.
There is also the common misconception that blood is bright red while it is actually a dark red, especially if "full".
Comics, books and pads ads continue to confuse men all over the world
I grew up with only men, and female friends don't tend to go around giving info like that. How exactly do you think men would just....know? Magic?
How are women real
We aren't.
I knew it you're government spy drones
They told me I was crazy
Crazy? I was crazy once
They locked me in a room
A rubber room!
A rubber room with rats!
And rats make me crazy!
They do call us "birds" in the UK
It all makes sense now women are mechs piloted by birds
r/girlsarentreal
Specifically in response to the edit;
I mean, how often do you have open discussions about it with your male friends and family members?
I'm not for a second suggesting that we shouldn't be in the know, but I for one didn't know the blood could clot and fall out like that and I felt I had at least a decent understanding about how periods work.
But it's not something people generally have discussions about, I know I certainly haven't, all the information I know is from generally 'known' information and I appreciate the information you have provided, so thank you.
It's kinda like talking about poop. Like yes it's normal but no it's not really dinner conversation.
But to be fair, everyone poops. Men donāt get their periods lol
Fun fact: period poops are also a thing
Oh yeah they areā¦. but I donāt think theyāre ready for that part š®āšØš
me when im an egg being cooked (i am in excruciating pain)
I actually used to suffer from a bloody nose a lot and this one time, I got a bloody nose for well over 20 minutes. I had clogged my nose and the clot it ended up forming probably resembles the descriptions I'm reading here quite well. Makes sense to me that the same can happen to period blood, very interesting!
It's not just clotted blood like your describing with your nose, in this scenario, it could be clotted/dead blood, but it's also the entire lining of the uterus, so it's quite jarring (trust me, don't look it up)
Right, yeah not really interested to look that up either, but thanks for clarifying!
Yeah, right!
Next thing youāre gonna say is women poo too.
I didnt want to know actually
r/usernamechecksout
But... black?
It's a not as fresh as the blood from a wound and it contains the uterus lining
SOMETIMES, (like last week) it's actually just a piece of purple tissue with blood on it. Like if you cut a strip of liver....actually, that's exactly what it's like.Ā
It's when it's huge and you feel it drop that it gets somewhat concerning. Then you gotta waffle stomp it down the drain.Ā
If you don't clear the hair from the drain first there will be regrets.Ā
The part about regrets had me cackling
I thought I had a pretty good sex ed and a grasp on the wonderous horrors of female anatomy.
I was NOT PREPARED for the waffle stomp infoā¦.
Period blood/tissue can be various colors. Pink, bright red, dark red, black, brown, etc. Darker colors are usually due to the blood taking longer to exit the body and having more time to oxidize. It's all normal though.
Relatedly, dark blood from your anus means that the bleeding is internal and that you should go to the doc.
For contrast, your usual hemorrhoids are fresh, bright red blood.
Not that persistent hemorrhoids aren't an issue to discuss with your doc. Just not generally an emergency
bright red blood CAN indicate hemorrhoids, however more generally bright red blood is going to be due to bleeding at the lower end of the GI tract, whereas dark/black blood will be due to bleeding higher up the GI tract
Itās dark.
I'm gonna google what that looks like
Edit: oh god my fucking eyes...
Clots colour can vary and it will be from dark red to black. So yeah. However when they ādissolveā due to contact with warm water they will turn water red.
It's all fun and games until they're the size of your fist. I wish I could bleach my brain of the sensation of those sliding out.
That's actually what inspired this meme
May yours pass painlessly š
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Had 11 in one day and I passed out in between most of them before more horrible stabbing pains. I was completely worn out the next day. It takes everything out of you man.
That sounds awful. Hopefully it's really rare for you. ā¤ļø
My warzone used to make me bleed every single day for 7 years. I couldn't get rid of my anemia. Those were very dizzy days that I don't miss!
Postpartum be like this
YES! "Let us know if you pass any large clots."Ā
*lays a triple youlker blood egg
They probably meant bigger than that. It's fine.Ā
With my first I had a c-section and due to some complications post-surgery I was bed-bound for a bit longer than they usually like. When I was finally able to get up out of bed the nurse helping me up just said ādonāt look backā
ā¦ I did in fact, look back.
Seriously. I've heard of the nightmares. FYI you can get these without ever being pregnant.
People when the joke is about penises, sperm, and balls vs People when the joke is about menstruation:
Hhhhhh! It's trueĀ
Maybe because people are conservative about menstruation
I read Hhhhhhh as someone whose struggling to breath let out a long exhale
Any time a woman mentions anything about periods and having babies, I thank the universe I was born a man. Bless your tortured souls.
Less physical strength
Societal constraints in many countries
Alien jelly coming out of you
Human baby coming out of you
Spend whole life constantly watching out for creeps
Spend whole life blocking unsolicited penis pictures
Spend whole life being afraid of walking alone at night in most places
The list keeps going. I suspect, and hope, future socieities will look back on us ancient folk and be disgusted for not doing better for women.
It's not all bad tbf. I don't hate being a woman.
but lemme add "Men making monkey noises in online games once they hear your female voice in VC"
I would've said "make even crazier monkey noises back" but given their smooth chronic online gamer brain, they'd probably end up thinking you're responding positively to their mating call.
R.I.P my inbox šŖ¦
š
Oh god. What are they asking? Asking for??!
You know what theyāre asking forā¦ š Freaky lil thangsā¦
Ok for men who donāt know: womenās period is the act of our uterus shedding its lining. And it isnāt just red blood spots on the pads/tampons. When we take shower, the blood still comes outā¦ along with black clots (our very uterus lining). Thatās the black ājellyfishā.
Without context, the idea of your reproductive organs literally just rotting and falling out of your body is true body horror.
Actually, no, even with context itās still very much body horror. Fellow bros, our equivalent to that would be our foreskins growing back every month and we have to shed it like a snake by ripping it off or else it wouldā¦ harden. Lots of respect that women have to put up with that; biologically we really got the easy route.
I hope this doesn't count as my one annual "erm akshually" moment, but there us no rotting involved. It just sheds. Any rotting tissue would lead to massive sepsis risk once a month. And despite how shitty nature can be, this oversight would have corrected itself eons ago
blood clot chan š
squid games š
Lmao comments showing reddit's true nature.
This is nothing new, itās a well established fact that thereās no women here.
No women, and no men who ever had a woman.
I mean, I've been with my partner 10 years and I've never seen her black jellyfishes š¤Ø Neither has she told me about this being something that can happen.
Sheās been having babies non-stop for 10 years. Mazel tov! I guess
As a dude who get frequent nosebleeds, I immediately understood this.
As a dude who does not, but understands blood coagulation, I understood immediately.
As a dude who neither bleeds often (or really at all, not for a while) and doesnāt have blood coagulation at the forefront of his mind, I did not understand immediately.
I used to have an ex boyfriend who would say āI donāt trust anything that bleeds for seven days and doesnāt dieā š it was entirely insulting and stupid.
As a dude, I've never understood that saying. Something that bleeds for seven days and doesn't die sounds like something you can really rely on come hell or high water.
One time i was standing naked in my room and i had a white carpet under me. I feel it slipping out and i ninja move CATCH IT, then i waddle to the bathroom :3 im sorry for any trauma i just caused anyone
Thanks! š¹ You just cured my priapism.
Women really are just a goldmine for lovecraftian horror.
The men in here looking it up and coming here to say they wish they hadnātā¦.. imagine when Iām just going about my day and I sneeze and I feel all the blood gushing out of me. Like you canāt hold it in.
Biology is amazing š„°
It sure is, Fardding_n_Shidding
Blood for the blood god
*cues waffle stomp dance tunes*
Why is this so accurate it physically hurtsš every period shower turns into a whole horror movie scene
I know what happens during a period biologically and why. But I'm gobsmacked everytime you guys describe it
The blood cloth
Blood for the Blood God
And then you have to somehow get out, get dry, and get a pad in your underwear, all without giving birth to 3 more
I don't get it
Well go get it then
But I don't know what I'm getting š
You donāt want it bro!
Instead of coming out like a flow of blood (like a cut anywhere else on your body) (although sometimes it does flow) period blood mostly comes out in jellylike mucosal chunks because a period isnāt just bleeding.
The uterus has a thick lining it builds up through the cycle, it needs to have this lining for if you get pregnant. When an egg is fertilized the zygote burrows into the uterine wall and if there isnāt enough stuff there to latch to either you miscarry or it digs too deep into your important shit instead. This lining has the capacity to get old and rot, so human women shed it off if there is no pregnancy for it to support.
This is globs of bloody tissue coming out alongside the bleeding from the shedding, and depending on how thick the tissue piece coming out is it can look black. This is the āblack jellyfishā
Usually it comes out in chunks but in rare cases itāll peel off whole, thatās particularly neat.
Sometimes big chunks cause pain, alongside the normal pain from the muscle contractions trying to pass it all out.
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A good old decidual cast! Never want to have one, dont look it up if you're squeamish about that kinda stuff
As a married man, I am sorry to say I understand this...Anyway Im off to the store to buy more large diameter straws
It's going on the explain the joke subreddits either way.
I canāt š
My wife calls it "The Bloop"
FUN FACT: period "blood" is actually uterus lining. Enjoy.
And blood. It's a mix of both. Chunky blood soup.
NOT SO FUN FACT: decidual cast is when the entire uterus lining doesn't break down and it just comes out in the shape of the uterus along with normal period blood
It makes me feel less lonely in the shower, by turn scares me because I WANT TO BE ALONE IN THE SHOWER NOT WITH THE JELLYFISH
I absolutely hate when clots leave my body because it feels like a sneeze for my crotch.
This meme does a good job of exposing just how high a percentage of virgins there are on Reddit. You knew it was higher than the average social media, but this is comically high.
Bruh Iāve have sex for a while now and it involved ZERO period clots. What kinda freaky shit are you into???