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Quote: "Yet Hassett knows her stuff – and a lot of that stuff is very interesting indeed. Along the way, she debunks all sorts of received wisdoms. The idea, fo
by unnouinceput 4y ago
Quote: "Yet Hassett knows her stuff – and a lot of that stuff is very interesting indeed. Along the way, she debunks all sorts of received wisdoms. The idea, for instance, that women’s menstrual cycles fall into sync when they live in proximity. Hassett says that this ‘seemingly unkillable myth’ just ain’t so:..."
I'm sorry, but Hassett is wrong on this one. I've witnessed a dorm full of girls in my student years syncing their menstruation in like maximum 2 months after school was started. Multiple years was happening after they came from vacation. My girlfriends at the time were in sync with all other girls in same dorm.
I've witnessed later in life girls I shared apartments with having their menstruation synced just the same.
And fucking finally, my wife and daughter have their menstruation in sync nowadays.
- bell-cot 4y ago+1...but your phrasing, especially of the last sentence, seems a tad indelecate.
- lupire 4y agoYou should document this carefully and publish, since scientists have failed to document the effect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_synchrony > my wife and daughter have their menstruation in sync nowadays. How closely in sync? For how many cycles? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)
- kadonoishi 4y agoI'd really like to know if menstrual synchronization is real, because there's a straightforward explanation: temporal herding. In the ancestral environment, it drew predators, so under the normal dynamics of prey and predators it pays to herd together. Herding in space is easy to see; herding in time, as of oak trees tending to produce acorns in the same year, is also easy to note after awhile. So if our ancestors evolved to all menstruate at the same time as a defense against predation, it seems perfectly straightforward. But all I hear is anecdotes that are promptly attacked, so, is this a real physical phenomenon?
- poulsbohemian 4y agoCompletely agree - see this in my family as well, even among females under the same roof but not related, IE: step mom and daughter.