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I am from Brazil, I had never heard of a taboo in the open, but after I started to have long term girlfriends, all of them tried to not use the word "menses"
by speeder 11y ago
I am from Brazil, I had never heard of a taboo in the open, but after I started to have long term girlfriends, all of them tried to not use the word "menses" in Portuguese, from methods that I think are stupid (writing only "m" instead) to the outright infuriating (using ambiguous and hard to understand euphemisms), it annoyed me a lot, and I argued with all of them about it, never worked, they never explained that behavior and continued it.
- tomp 11y agoIsn't that about the same as people saying "I'm going to the toilet for number 2" instead of "I'm going to the toilet to shit"?
- StavrosK 11y agoIt's more like saying "I'm going to the back" in the amount of ambiguity in the phrase. Saying "number two" is clear in its meaning.
- StavrosK 11y agoYeah, in Greece they also say "I'm indisposed", and it's a generally-known euphemism for "I'm on my period", but you never really know if they're on their period or if they're ill.