Post by max23 on Feb 11, 2022 20:54:12 GMT -5
According to a review of Yellowjackets (available on the Showtime streaming service), the TV series realistically depicts how women stranded in the wilderness would deal with their periods:
"[The program is set in the late '90s] and follows a [girl's] high school soccer team whose plane crashes into an Ontario forest on their way to a national competition. While sworn to secrecy as suburban adults, flashbacks reveal the horrific and gritty ordeals the characters undertake to ensure their survival - from the extremities of ritual sacrifice [??] to the mundanity of period rags.
In episode five, the main characters have finally been in each other’s company for long enough that their cycles sync up.
Makeshift pads are fashioned from torn up, salvaged clothing that survived the wreck. The girls take turns stewing them in pots, stirring the scraps with a stick to sterilise and reuse again, without censoring the deep red hues that bubble in boiling water."
The article also includes some comments from contestants who took part in the TV series Survivor:
"I was ending my period the first day that we started, so then I actually had my period again there,” explained former reality TV contestant Lauren-Ashley Beck from Survivor: Island of the Idols off-air. Having used her tampons from her first cycle on set, she had to beg producers to give her more, and told Insider it took a full day to receive the supplies.
Other cohorts explained that they didn’t fully feel 'clean' with their limited period product stock, how PMS affected their group, and how they feared being around sharks around their time of month [another period myth, lol] - comments that could go far if actually broadcast on the show itself, rather than ignore that they happen at all."
I found these comments particularly interesting, because I wondered how women on reality shows deal with their period. A few years ago, ABC, an Australian TV channel, had a series that took a family back to how families lived in previous decades, From memory, I think the series started in the 1920's - for a week, the family lived how a 1920's family would have lived, the next week it was the 1930s, and so on. I don't remember any references to periods in the show - it would have been interesting if mother and teenaged daughter had to ditch modern menstrual products for a sanitary belt!
Getting back to Yellowjackets, are the producers aware that menstrual synchronicity is a myth? Perhaps they decided to include it for dramatic effect - I'd like to know what part it plays in the show's plot.
"How ‘Yellowjackets’ Delivered One Of The Most Accurate Depictions Of Menstruation In Years": junkee.com/yellowjackets-periods-menstruation/320714
"[The program is set in the late '90s] and follows a [girl's] high school soccer team whose plane crashes into an Ontario forest on their way to a national competition. While sworn to secrecy as suburban adults, flashbacks reveal the horrific and gritty ordeals the characters undertake to ensure their survival - from the extremities of ritual sacrifice [??] to the mundanity of period rags.
In episode five, the main characters have finally been in each other’s company for long enough that their cycles sync up.
Makeshift pads are fashioned from torn up, salvaged clothing that survived the wreck. The girls take turns stewing them in pots, stirring the scraps with a stick to sterilise and reuse again, without censoring the deep red hues that bubble in boiling water."
The article also includes some comments from contestants who took part in the TV series Survivor:
"I was ending my period the first day that we started, so then I actually had my period again there,” explained former reality TV contestant Lauren-Ashley Beck from Survivor: Island of the Idols off-air. Having used her tampons from her first cycle on set, she had to beg producers to give her more, and told Insider it took a full day to receive the supplies.
Other cohorts explained that they didn’t fully feel 'clean' with their limited period product stock, how PMS affected their group, and how they feared being around sharks around their time of month [another period myth, lol] - comments that could go far if actually broadcast on the show itself, rather than ignore that they happen at all."
I found these comments particularly interesting, because I wondered how women on reality shows deal with their period. A few years ago, ABC, an Australian TV channel, had a series that took a family back to how families lived in previous decades, From memory, I think the series started in the 1920's - for a week, the family lived how a 1920's family would have lived, the next week it was the 1930s, and so on. I don't remember any references to periods in the show - it would have been interesting if mother and teenaged daughter had to ditch modern menstrual products for a sanitary belt!
Getting back to Yellowjackets, are the producers aware that menstrual synchronicity is a myth? Perhaps they decided to include it for dramatic effect - I'd like to know what part it plays in the show's plot.
"How ‘Yellowjackets’ Delivered One Of The Most Accurate Depictions Of Menstruation In Years": junkee.com/yellowjackets-periods-menstruation/320714