OUT: IT’S SHAMEFULLY SEXIST TO EVEN SUGGEST THE POSSIBILITY THAT A WOMAN’S PERIOD MIGHT AFFECT HER WORK.

In: Women must have “period leave” because equality! “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Women complain of unequal treatment from their male colleagues, that they face discrimination in the workplace and that they can do anything that men can do. This strikes me as an acknowledgement that we can’t. . . . The men, naturally, won’t be getting any time off for their easily treatable aches and pains. Even if you don’t mind the discrimination against men to give women this special treatment — allowing them to skip work a few days every month while the men pick up the slack — it would also be discriminating against menopausal women. (And what about trans women?)”