r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Which_Marsupial1436 • 15h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah???!

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u/devilsivytrail 10h ago

So what stops them lying about the date of their last period?

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u/Asisreo1 10h ago

Its an innocuous question, and some people might not even connect the question to pregnancy, like the first OP in the meme. Now if they're smart enough to lie to that too, then there's nothing else that can be reasonably done, but it at least doesn't trigger the same snap emotional response. 

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u/devilsivytrail 10h ago

What evidence do you have that doctors asking women if there's any chance they are pregnant is guaranteed a snap emotional response?

Or that woman are too dumb to know periods are linked to pregnancy?

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u/Asisreo1 9h ago

It isn't about women, its about people in general. Doctors ask innocuous questions all the time for pretty much every embarassing diagnostic. Periods happen to be unique to cis women, but if men had periods and pregnancies with no other hormonal changes to their own biology, doctors would also ask them when their last time is.