(UK) I took the day off work yesterday as I had a particularly heavy day, was feeling very tired, dizzy, just needed to rest. Used a day of my sick leave.
Some months I don't need to take much of a rest at all, and can keep working, other days, I need the time to rest and recover.
Seems reasonable, that's what sick days are for
Got me thinking how amazing it would be to have menstrual leave in the UK. I think it would normalise that periods affect women physically and mentally, and sometimes we aren't ok to carry on working.
Wait, don't only misogynists acknowledge that women can act different mentally on their periods? 
Yes, I know initially it would result in some organisation not hiring women. But, I do think that with enough time, the organisations that didn't offer menstrual leave or weren't hiring women would lose out. Likely due to gender discrimination anyways (as you can't just not hire women).
She acknowledges this would make women unemployable, but that's OK because laws will force companies to hire women lmao
Another pro of menstrual leave: My boss (male) has a habit of saying "hope you're ok? Is it stress, is there anything I can do?" which get quite awkward if it's related to gynae issues . If I just said I needed to take a day of menstrual leave, life would so much easier.
Anyways, that's my mini-rant for the day.
Yes, one menstrual leave please 
Much less awkward than taking a sick day.
The comments are somewhat reasonable, but most seem to focus on this making only making women appear to be less valuable than men in the workforce and not literally less valuable, lol. Also a few agreeing with the idea.
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allowing women in the workplace was a mistake we'll never recover from
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allowing women outside the home was a mistake we'll never recover from
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Allowing women was a mistake we'll never recover from
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Adam should of kept his fricking rib
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But then he couldn't
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YEHOVAH YOU FRICKING JEWISH CHAD
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Hey, letting women work isn't a bad thing.
It was letting women work high-end jobs that effectively took them out of the genepool.
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getting an extra 75% work from the population isn't so bad, they should just be paid accordingly
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I'm in as long as I get bad gas days
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Absolutely not. Ripping a truly
fart in the shop is one of the simple joys in life.
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I can only pack so many changes of underwear to deal with the skidmarks though
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Wallow in your shit like a real man
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That's literally just one of the things calling in sick is for
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Im in as long as I get sexual emergency days (I need to r*pe)
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What did he mean by this??
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I need to r*pe
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no 🧢 here
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I'd basically take every Wednesday off, call it a Taco Tuesday Leave
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Then men also get menstrual leave. "Debbie's being a real b-word today, so I'm going to take the day off tomorrow."
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Men can get menstrual leave if they are menstruating men. There's dozens of them
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Well men menstruate also. So why not?
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https://cinchnews.com/2023/01/02/heres-what-science-says-about-trans-womens-menstrual-cycle-yes-its-real
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Give them that and weirdly no woman would ever have their period on a weekend again.
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Yep lmao, its like if you took the idea that women are less employable because they get pregnant and multiplied it by 100
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Easy solution: every time a woman takes maternity or menstrual leave, a random male employee is given the same amount of leave.
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then your economy collapses.
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Not if you double the price of funko pops to pay for leave.
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"I'd save women by dishing out oxy like candy."
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Hope you like every patient bitching about muh thyroid levels
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I gave this the pin award because I thought it was glitching out and not taking my DC, then i realized it was taking my marseybux
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And you could have been giving all that to me instead. Smh
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TwoX: We should be able to expect that statistically all women should earn the same as men since they bring an equal value of labor
Also Twox: We should be able to take a week off every month
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it will be fine because businesses are forced to hire women anyway
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The controversial comments are funny.
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Yeah there are a few arguing about endometriosis and shit lol
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I was thinking more like "because its not peepee leave" "Because it would make men angry." "Because men don't get periods."
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it is kinda messed up that men don't get peepee inspection leave, sometimes you gotta check
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Trans women need to get menstrual days too.
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They also take maternity lave but the foreign women who come over here crap out a baby every year so you lose those women for months out of the year already.
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i laughed
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Bruh, this happened to me last month. One of my reports asked to leave early because of her menstrual symptoms. Not sure where zoomers got the idea that this was normal
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If they are actually debilitating I get it, but at that point it should be a known disability that you knew before hiring. Asking for free days off for it is just insane lmao
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Yeah, that's what I told her, that if her she was too sick to come in, then that's a sick day and it will be counted as one.
I could just tell she was hoping I would give her some sort of break because it's a menstrual thing. Really annoyed me because I have 5 other young women who report to me who never ask for things like this.
Maybe their menstrual symptoms are bad too, but there's no reason that I should be aware of any of that.
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agreed 100%, shouldn't be putting you on the spot like that with such an odd request plus could send odd signals to the others. just say you're sick and need to leave lol
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It sure was weird how half the girls in class would all be menstruating on pool day
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my school never had pool days
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Dude marsey lmao
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If her boss already has a habit of asking her if shes okay than she has bigger problems than her period.
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she sounds a bit insane so will probably be getting fired soon, lol
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These foids are r-slurred and delusional.
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This would probably work out in favor of post-menopausal women and hurt young women and anything that pits women against women is keyed and the natural order of things. I would never hire a woman so it would never affect me
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Aww look we have a Pooner Inclusive Radical Menstruist
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