I don’t care what anyone says. I love that Turning Red addresses periods in a positive light, it’s an important thing to talk about ESPECIALLY in children’s media, we need to normalize period conversations. It’s a normal thing to have! And it should be seen as such!
I’m tired of periods being a taboo thing to talk about, or even being used as the butt of a joke. It’s not disgusting! It’s not something people should hide! It should be discussed and people should feel safe to talk about it instead of being shamed!
So all the people making a big fuss over how the movie isn’t appropriate for children need to grow the fuck up. Allowing kids to be comfortable with their bodies and find confidence within themselves to be themselves is not your problem, and it is an extremely important thing to let children be themselves and not be scared to talk about things, even something as natural as a period!
Turning Red is literally one of the only children’s movies I can think of that actually discusses periods in a positive light. Any other example I can think of when it comes to even the utterance of the word in children’s media was to be used as a joke, or even a snide comment like “Are you on your period or something >:(” or “Why are you so angry? Are you PMSing?” So I’m fucking grateful that this movie added this topic, it literally made my heart sing.
And another thing I’d like to add is that it IS very important to expose young boys to the conversations about periods too!
Please allow children to be educated on these topics, stop treating periods like they’re some icky gross thing that needs to be hidden away from society.