Thread 149799467

Were there any little girls out there who learned they are going to bleed from watching Turning Red?

No, but it pissed off a bunch of Gen X mothers surprisingly

>>149799527
>2022
Those were millennial mothers.

>>149799467 (OP)
Yep, me :^)

>>149799527
>>149799601
xillennial mothers. Though mostly those born in the 80s.

>>149799467 (OP)
I hope none.

>>149800454
Fag

>>149800454
I remember some comments online about one girl who got kind of upset when her parents explained it, and another parent who said they had to change the subject when their 8 year old daughter asked questions... implying the 8 year old didn't know.

>>149800645
Honestly fucked up how tight lipped some parents are about female puberty.

>>149799733
fake

>>149801049
yep it was this one.

>>149801049
The only argument for antinatalism is that parents are really fucking stupid
I never met a respectable mother

>>149801314
>Is my 5 year old daughter supposed to just accept the fact that she'll bleed from her vagina every month for years to come to prepare her body to have sex and have babies
pipe.jpg

>>149801378
t. Domee Shi

>>149801380
well yeah, I wasn't thrilled I'd grow hair all over my body and my voice would get deeper but i got over it.

>>149801049
>>149801201
its weird peple didnt want girls to know about a normal biological prossesa. Girls can get their period as young as 8 without it being a real problem for her medically. A girl isnt too young to know about something that will effect her for half her life and who even knows when it might come up. It's gross yes but its just as gross as shitting and everyone has to learn how to wipe their ass propaly.

>>149801505
all my puberty education I can recall is "wear deoderant". Also abstinece only kind of stuff.

>>149801378
I don't think there's barely any place on earth in our lifetime where being a mother isn't an uncompromised burden

>>149801661
it was extremely heavy on the biological details for me but the actual sex stuff was pretty much abstinence with some mention of contraceptives that exist.

>>149801661
we had about the same except maybe the deodorant lol. result of state anti sexuality propaganda

>>149799467 (OP)
gave them curiosity to lurk moar at most (aka ask their parents) but not full explanation of why do they bleed. imho producers did their best taking into account that disney took part of making it sloppy

>>149801835
we had to have a permission slip and they separated girls and boys to tell us to use deodorant in 5th grade. Though I assume the girl's presentation included periods.

>>149801941
>imho producers did their best taking into account that disney took part of making it sloppy
Disney made it sloppy? Well Disney did make a menstrual education cartoon in the 1940s...

Was this really a common style of dress for girls in 2002? I mean I was there, as a little kid, but I don't remember.

>>149802452
This movie wasn't very good at capturing that time period.

>>149802452
Pends, knitted shirts were almost permanently phased out and in it's place cargo pants, crop tops, track suits was the thing around my place, anything else was left overs from the 80's or 90's.
Nobody wore skirts though.

>>149803053
>Nobody wore skirts though.
Maybe if Mei's school had uniforms...

>>149803010
Yeah there were quite a few anachronisms. Like the use of the word "epic" which I think is more 2006 territory. Also some people say "OMG" wasn't actually a thing in 2002, so I guess I believe them.

Was this symbolism?

>>149803775
Also, Twilight didn't come out until 2008. Harry Potter would've been more fitting for a kid that age, as that's when the films and books were coming out.

But I get the feeling that the writers are too politically opposed to Rowling to have reference that.

>>149804175
Well Harry Potter also isn't quite "goth". If they did some Harry Potter parody book it would be a... parody.

>>149801524
Many normal, biological processes are taboo for a reason. They might be something a parents should talk about their kids with, but it's not easy.
>Hey, Sally, in a few years from now, you're gonna start bleeding from your snatch and feel like shit once a month. That's a normal, biological process, just like how your metabolism will go a decade or two after that and you start feeling tired and in pain and have trouble doing things you used to enjoy. Now, about our family's medical history and what that means for you...

>>149799467 (OP)
I learned from an educational video in 4th grade health class that was sponsored by Always brand pads. It later turned out I was allergic to some component in the Always brand pads that contained fragrance. Turns out feminine pads are not legally compelled to list their ingredients/materials, so I never did figure out exactly what it was. But it made my asshole itchy as fuck and for the first couple cycles I had no idea why, and I was too embarrassed to tell anyone. It ruined a field trip to the science museum because I got yelled at when I kept running off to go to the bathroom. I live in fear that I will one day again come in contact with whatever those pads were made out of and get itchy again. Fuck Always.

>>149801201
But 8 is a normal age for a girl to begin menstruating, she should definitely know about it by then

>>149804502
>But it made my asshole itchy as fuck
I think you put it in wrong.

>>149804175
I was reading Anne Rice’s vampire smut books at that time, but Twilight is still a better fit because it’s already a meme, and Interview with a Vampire probably isn’t a franchise that Disney/Pixar wanted to remind people of the existence of.

>>149804597
You don’t insert pads, you glue them to your panties. The long ones can reach to your butt so that the blood doesn’t leak when you sit.

>>149804167
sure why not

>>149804441
>>149801314

>>149804167
I particularly like that she takes a sip of the herbal tea that's supposed to alleviate cramps when she sits down in the next scene.

I'm pretty sure women figure out about periods at around 11-12 years old. If not, their moms will tell them about womanhood and how it works.
Thank God I was born a man, being a woman sounds like total bullshit.

>>149804764
yeah I noticed that too.
>It helps relax your...

This is an interesting point that I can't really relate to. Would seeing this movie and those scenes if you were a girl and in mixed company be uncomfortable? Though plenty of kids saw this movie in school with all their classmates when it came out.

I learned what a period was for the first time at 8 or 9 because of some fictional book aimed at preteen girls mentioning a girl knowing she got her first period because she saw blood in her underwear. I also had a friend the same age as me who apparently got hers pretty early because around the same time she asked if I knew what a period was, and based on that book I was able to answer. So from there I probably realized it'd eventually happen to me.

Didn't learn the specific details of how a period works until I was in like 5th grade and they gave out sex ed pamphlets. I think I learned about it sort of late, but then it didn't matter because I only got it for the first time at 13 for a few months, lost it for a while, and didn't start regularly bleeding again until about 15. So if anything I was overprepared for it when I did get it because I'd been waiting for years for it to either start or come back

>>149804502
inb4 there are ambulance chaser ads saying if you or a loved one ever used asbestos lined pads

>>149804597
I AM BLEEDHOLIO
I NEED ALWAYS FOR MY BUNGHOLE

>>149804502
>educational video
The Disney one from the 40s that was sponsored by Kotex is still the best one.

https://youtu.be/vG9o9m0LsbI?si=d77azPxeeBjCtzU3

The narration helped inspire Rebecca Sugar to create White Diamond.

>>149799467 (OP)
>me asking my big sister if she watched turning red

>>149804837
Really young kids are grossed out by anything even remotely related to girls. I had a Pixar bookset that I shared with my neighbors and none of us ever wanted to read the Ratatouille one simply because of the illustration of the kiss.

>>149804927
sounds like you guys jerked each other

>>149804856
I wish I could find some webcomic about period preparedness by age. At age 10-11 a girl carries their stuff around at all times, at age 20, she's normal about it, at age 30, you can just bleed a little in your sweatpants, who gaf?

>>149804927
wait really? I dunno, there was kissing in Disney cartoons in the 90s and boys and girls watched those too. I can understand if you're maybe 5 though.

>>149804837
>girl watches a movie where the MC goes through an embarrassing experience and thus, experiences embarrassment
>viewer girl relates the way she was intended to relate, and also feels a level of embarrassment, the feeling she is supposed to feel in that moment
>this is somehow Bad

Like, I sorta get that people watch movies for entertainment, and sometimes they feel a little bad about getting negative emotions that they weren’t expecting out of their entertainment. But I’m also really sick of reviews that say “this movie made me/my kid feel anything at all aside from pure joy, and that scares and confuses me. Obviously this means that something is wrong with the movie and not that we are emotionally immature and incapable of addressing our own feelings.”

Embarrassment is a perfectly normal and natural feeling and it is okay for kids to experience it a little bit so that they can learn and grow. Pixar made two other movies about why feelings aside from happiness are useful.

It is fine to be in the same room as your dad while a movie that has a scene with pads in it shows on the screen, and to become aware that he knows you menstruate. That is a growing up kinda experience. The ultimate message of Turning Red was meant to be that that is okay and you don’t need to be ashamed of your body.

>>149805060
hell yeah

Then again I guess the Japanese Ghibli movie Only Yesterday had an even more awkward scenes involving menstruation, and large Japanese audiences saw that movie in theaters. Ironically Disney didn't localize that movie probably because of those scenes.

>>149805168
I get that and I totally agree. Discomfort is a great element in storytelling. Just wondering about the gendered experience of it.

>>149800645
>>149801049
>>149801524
>>149801378
>>149801201
It's weird because like wouldn't the girls freak out that they're bleeding? Wouldn't you want to prepare a girl for that? I thought about this ever since I watched Carrie (I'm a guy obviously)

>>149805197
I literally only remember the scene where the family ate a beautifully animated but clearly underripe pineapple, then got sad it tasted like underripe shit and not at all like syrupy canned pineapple.

But what was the menstruation stuff in that one?

>>149805271
You don't remember the boys finding out about menstruation and then they harass the girls over it?

>>149805197
they did however show it subbed on Turner Classic Movies with John Lasseter introducing it. Maybe appreciation for that movie is why John Lasseter is possibly one of the people who greenlit Turning Red.

>>149805226
Literally everything about periods is embarrassing in the first couple of years of experiencing them.

>mother, fully clothed in tshirt and jeans, placing one foot on the edge of the bathtub, loosely demonstrating how and where to insert a tampon, until I run out of the room with my ears covered
Embarrassing

>visiting weekend with dad, him telling me “Lemme know if you need me to pick up any, er uh” he stumbles awkwardly exactly like he’s Hank Hill “yknow. Napkins…”
Embarrassing

>hosting sleepover with friends, walking up and greeting them as they’re all huddled together speaking in hushed voices
>”Anonette, don’t you know this isn’t the time for your nonsense?? Friend B is Literally Bleeding. Do something!”
>Me: “Oh? Where is she bleeding from?”
>entire friendgroup gives me the death glare for having the audacity of temporarily forgetting that periods are a thing
Embarrassing

Watching a movie all about periods with the whole family? Probably embarrassing.

>>149805364
Well I guess I sorta do now, but the pineapple and the part where she fainted in the bath house definitely left a much deeper impression on me.

I do now recall a part where a boy lifted a girls skirt to check if she was on her period and her chasing him with a broom or something. Classic kids shenanigans.

>>149805364
I remember finding out about menstruation because one of my friends told us and I called bullshit on it but just a couple of days later our teacher started talking about human reproduction and explaining menstruation, it was a sad day.

>>149801201
>>149801314
These sound like shitty parents.

>>149805614
That wasn’t a coincidence. Your teacher picked then to have that talk because she over heard the school yard grape vine at some point and knew what was going on.

>>149805619
It’s even shittier since those were undoubtedly written by women. I sorta get why a dad would be uncomfortable, but a mom should know how strange that period is for a girl.

>>149805646
you mean the government has always spied on me? I fucking knew it!

>>149805694
well the one labeled "New Orleans Mom" was written by a woman. I dunno if she's a bad parent, maybe just misguided a little. Now the imdb review with the 8 year old daughter, that parent, whether mother or father, is asleep at the wheel.

>>149799467 (OP)
It wasn't about periods.

>>149806240
arguably true.

My niece, kinda.

>>149806643
My friend said his brother held off on showing his 6 year old daughter this movie because of the period stuff.

>>149806816
Your friend’s brother is a coward, but he deserves credit for doing his research and making an informed decision.

>>149806852
Supposedly the period stuff is the only reason he didn't. Not any of that "promoting rebellion" stuff btohered him I guess.

>>149804576
>8 is a normal age to begin menstruating
Since fucking when?

>>149807823
I think a given range is 9-14 so 8 is a nice time to learn.

>>149807823
Since they started putting hormones in the beef.

>>149799467 (OP)
>Were there any little girls out there who learned they are going to turn red from watching Turning Red?

>>149804772
No, no one told me about wet dreams and sperm.

now that the dust has settled was he right?

>>149810652
Nobody cares about this faggot, kys

>>149799467 (OP)
No

>>149803010
Case in point.

>>149811396
Maybe she just experienced the year different than others?

>>149811579
She's CANADIAN, and a GIRL. No cartoons, no videogames. And the creator got things messed up and put her back in the age of boy bands, which actually ended a good long time before 2000

>>149806816
Because of a throw away line and non-descript boxes onscreen for like a minute? Wow...your brother's a coward.

>>149801201
>>149801314
This is crazy, I learned about periods as a kid because my mom would tell me unprompted that she was on hers.

Why the fuck Disney make a movie about puberty and all lead to menstruation but none about growing breasts? when the first sign of puberty for girls is breast development? Are they afraid of breasts?

>>149804441
>Many normal, biological processes are taboo for a reason.
And that reason is that people are fucking retarded.

>>149812037
I think this guy even watched the whole movie before his kids so...

>>149806816

no 6 year old is going to get any of those references. they will be more interested in the cartoony girls and the giant fluffy panda. alot of that stuff will go right over their head. your friends brother is a shitty parent.

>>149809114
I think I heard about wet dreams from reading about them, but I didnt read about what ejaculation was until I experienced it for myself and it was very confusing.

>>149811396
>>149811579
Maybe they conflated 2002 and 2000. 2000 was a colorful happy year in North America.

>>149811396
Autism image.

>>149812344
getting boobs isn't as traumatic as bleeding and hurting and feeling like shit, I guess.Priya is the only one in the friend group who has boobs (and maybe the only one who gets her period?)

>>149806816
>I do not want my daughter knowing about the biological reality she will be facing very soon
"People" like this should not be parents
>>149807823
According to the NIH 8 is the low end of normal. Not common but it is within normal range and therefore girl should know it will happen by that age so if she is in that minority that starts early it won't surprise her. Average is 10 so girl needs to know by 8 because it will happen soon and, again, you don't want it being a surprise

>>149812767
Yeah I remember most girls getting boobs of some kind by 8th grade but Priya's the only one who has anything here.

>>149807823
The truth is that fat/obese girls get their periods very way earlier than their slimmer peers.

>>149802917
Remember /co/, she's an adult now so it's legal.

>>149812948

I would rather her panda form!

>>149800347
>who is the target audience
literally just the creator and other 90s era toronto asians
I've yet to see a story written by a westernized asian woman that wasn't self indulgent at best

>>149805364
>You don't remember the boys finding out about menstruation and then they harass the girls over it?
No, I only remember guys trying to slap or grab girls' asses.

>>149806240
I think it was about how adolescent girls have the right to have onlyfans so they can have money for concerts.

>>149806816
>My friend said his brother held off on showing his 6 year old daughter this movie because of the period stuff.
6yo won't notice those things the same way I when watched sakura card captor as a kid and didn't notice all the homofetish it had.
Aslo why didn't your friend just download the movie and cut out that part with some software?

>>149813053
>Eventually, Mei "sells" herself to her bully, Tyler (Tristan Allerick Chen), for his birthday party. It's an unpleasant arrangement that ends with Tyler saying, "You want your money? Get your butt down here, now." He later yells about her "psycho mom" and "creepy temple" before Mei pounces on him with possibly murderous intentions. Ming, you know, is so close to getting it when she accuses Mei's friends of using her. She's made to be the villain--and she is, for the bulk of the film--but she's not wrong in this moment. Mei, the pariah, has found acceptance through the minstrelsy of her culture, and that's as heartbreaking as it is common. Ming is reacting against the casting of her daughter in the other Asian female trope in the west: the prostitute.

>>149803010
Now that we think about it, shouldn't the movie have included 9/11?

It would've made everything more grounded to the period, but it would've also played well into the themes of the movie, as the shock from 9/11 was very much akin to the United States, as a nation, experiencing its first period?

>>149812875
>>149812767
Why did they give a young girl child bearing hips? watching the movie made me very stiff.
>>149813107
>Now that we think about it, shouldn't the movie have included 9/11?
Why? The setting wasn't Usa.

>>149813087
was it the bowdlerized English dub of Card Captor or something?

>>149813096
this "unpleasant arrangement" also has one of the most fun parts of the movie: Bootylicious.

>>149813096
There is a criminally small amount of good porn of her.

>>149813107
>>149813120
People say this, but eh, Canada is a neighbor to the USA and sympathy to the US was higher in the aftermath. I was a kid in the aftermath of 9/11 though and conversation about the event died down by May 2002 (though of course it was still salient). I mean shit I was more into Kingdom Hearts in late 2002 than I was anything else.

>>149812965
That wasn't obvious from its message constantly flip-flopping on what it was meant to represent

>>149813183
Do you still keep up with Kingdom Hearts?

>>149813200
I'm very casual about it. Only played I and II, didn't play III, will probably only watch the youtube videos of IV if it ever comes out. Hoping for a Panda Mei summon in IV though.

>>149813120
The whole world had to deal with the aftermath of usa having a 9/11.

Much like the whole family needs to take a moment out of their day to deal with the daughter's first periods.

>>149812948
>>149812956
I would rather her mom

>>149812723
No, fact image.

>>149812723
>>149813450
Why not both?

>>149812091
Based mom

>>149812344
Children can already see visually that adult women generally have breasts. They are aware of their existence and don’t need to be taught.

>>149801049
These are usually the same people who also insist schools shouldn’t teach sex ed

>>149805260
>[Carrie intensifies]

>>149813548
Not the case.

>>149801378
>I never met a respectable mother
My mom is respectable :)

>>149801049
There was a girl in my high school who had super-late puberty, like at 16, and just started bleeding in gym. I guess her parents never told her, either, because she started freaking out and it had to be the P. E. coach explaining that this is normal and a thing that happens. Girl got to 16 and started surprise-shedding her uterine lining with zero warning in gym class. There is an abusive degree of sheltered.

>>149813548
It’s always seemed a bit crazy to me that parents wouldn’t want to teach kids about this stuff early. Like you can teach it in a factual and natural manner, knowing how babby is formed isn’t going to turn them into sluts. And then these are the same kind of parents who hand their kids tablets and smartphones so their knowledge of sex probably comes directly from seeing online porn instead of a parent or teacher. But at least you didn’t have to know about it, I guess.

>>149812344
Because boobs growing aren’t as embarrassing as literally starting to bleed from your nether regions and having to go to the bathroom while hoping the stains don’t show in your pants

I wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a woman

>>149812857
>Average is 10
huh, i thought it would be like, 12.
it must suck being on the low end of that spectrum

>>149813627
You teach them that stuff when they're in the 5th grade, simple as that.

>>149813107
>Now that we think about it, shouldn't the movie have included 9/11?

They should have alluded to the post-9/11 hysteria since the film is clearly set roughly seven months after the attacks. The shock had worn off and the paranoia had fully set in.

>>149813120

Dozens of Canadians died in the attacks. Several thousand Americans were trapped in Canada for a number of weeks after dozens of flights were diverted to Canadian airports after US airspace was ordered closed. Canada had the third-largest contingent of troops sent to Afghanistan in response to the attacks.

To have a movie set in early-2002 without any allusion to 9/11 is like a movie set in 1940 without any reference to WWII or 1968 without any reference to the Vietnam War or MLK/RFK's assassination. You're just engaging in pure intellectual dishonesty at that point.

>>149802917
the perfect daughterwife.

>>149802452
No, but it's Canadian so maybe? American girls were still wearing pants in 2002.

>>149804175
>>149804630
>>149811396
Also this. Certain elements make it more of a pastiche of the 2000's than a capture-the-moment thing, which is fine.


>>149804927
Yeah, no. The whole "girls are icky and have cooties" thing they had in cartoons always felt like a forced trope, like children ostensibly disliking broccoli. Never understood it. Felt made-up. The Rowdyruff Boys episode of PPG drove me nuts with that. Bro, a girl kissed you and you hated it so much that you DIED from it? What's WRONG with you?


>>149813087
Weird example. The absence of love's physical expression is the only thing preventing Cardcaptor Sakura from being the single perviest piece of children's media ever made.

>>149813732
>5th grade
>10-11 years old
Do Americans really? You don’t think your kids wonder how babies are made or they don’t simply ask you before then? What would you say if they did, the fucking stork brings them? I wondered about this when I was like 6 or 7, asked my parents, they told me with the help of a book and none of us were the least bit bothered. I don’t get how people think knowing biological reality is somehow going to warp their kids.

>>149813812
>You don’t think your kids wonder how babies are made or they don’t simply ask you before then? What would you say if they did, the fucking stork brings them?
We had the Storks movie for a reason.

>>149813812
Everyone worldwide says to kids before they hit 10 and before they enter the 5th grade that "Babies come from storks" or "Babies come from a cabbage patch" bur mostly the former, once they hit 10 and enter the 5th grade is when they start learning about sex and LGBTQ+ freaks and "What the heck does that rainbow flag mean?".

I can tell you're trolling.

>>149813812
I didn't really know the process of how babies were made until I was 8 or 9 and not the whole mechanics of it until maybe 10 or 11. As Eminem says "of course they're going to know what intercourse is by the 4th grade, they got the discovery channel don't they?"

>>149813799
She honestly dresses like she's 5 years old and the sweater makes her look younger.
Also I think the "girls have cooties" thing is real but of course not all boys think like that.

>>149813909
4th graders are not watching Discovery Channel, they're watching Nick, CN and Disney Channel, or they were as they all moved to YouTube to watch Game Sack, LGR and The 8-Bit Guy since Nick, CN and Disney Channel only now air stuff that kids hate (baring SpongeBob of course).

Also you made up that quote yourself, it's not real.

>>149813799
>like children ostensibly disliking broccoli. Never understood it. Felt made-up.
I honestly believe this must be a tastebuds thing because I see so many people saying this (and continuing to willingly eat broccoli) that I suppose they must like it. I have always hated it. I think it tastes fucking foul and since I moved out on my own I have never eaten it again. If I want greens I’ll have lettuce or spinach or celery or literally anything that isn’t fucking broccoli.

>>149813866
>>149814013
What’s this, the “only my life experience is real, everyone else’s is made up” bot?

>>149814043
Those posts are not “only my life experience is real, everyone else’s is made up bots”, those posts are the god's honest truth.

>>149814013
It's a lyric from "The Real Slim Shady" c'mon now.

>>149814064
No, it's not, we been through this before in the last Turning Red thread.

>>149814027
You think celery is better than broccoli? What is wrong with you? Boiled broccoli nutritious and delicious

>>149814027
You should try them with some sauce, They are good grilled with white sauce.

>>149814093
Namely s o y sauce and pare it with beef.

At Panda Express it's excellent with Teriyaki sauce since it's already seasoned.

>>149813107

It'd be pretty funny if they finally did a sequel and retcon 9/11 out of existence with Ming inadvertently exposing the plot to the authorities.

>>149813866
>>149813909
Maybe the whole stork/cabbage myth worked before mass media and public school, but not today. Now? You're in a race to tell them before the internet or a naughty classmate with internet tells them.
They must have told me at like 7 the whole process of how babies were made, and by then they had already lost half the race to word-of-mouth.
I know it varies, too. I knew a kid who got to like 3rd grade legit thinking girls had dicks. Mocked RELENTLESSLY. Part of educating them is saving them from that.

>>149813933
>Also I think the "girls have cooties" thing is real but of course not all boys think like that.
I swear that felt like a PSYOP somehow. Not everybody's experience is shared, I know, but even the idea of being grossed-out by imaginary girl germs felt like one of those tropes that only existed through television.

>>149814164
>I knew a kid who got to like 3rd grade legit thinking girls had dicks
And now they do, guess he had the last laugh.

>>149813745
Bruh. Yeah 9/11 was a big deal here, but it wasn't all-consuming they way it was in America. It was like Katrina for us. Just another one of those bad things that only ever happens to Americans in our minds.

>>149814148
Or better yet, have Mei's dad be online video content creator thats about a Angry Retro Video Game Review (himself) that screams insults at terrible 8 and 16 bit games from the 80s and 90s and have that be the whole movie.

They already ripped off Flow, might as well rip off AVGN too when you're at it, plus AVGN started in 2004 so it lines up with the movie's timeline.

>>149814164
>Maybe the whole stork/cabbage myth worked before mass media and public school, but not today. Now? You're in a race to tell them before the internet or a naughty classmate with internet tells them.
That has never been the case.

>They must have told me at like 7 the whole process of how babies were made, and by then they had already lost half the race to word-of-mouth.
You're just lying at this point.

>I know it varies, too. I knew a kid who got to like 3rd grade legit thinking girls had dicks. Mocked RELENTLESSLY. Part of educating them is saving them from that.
If they have a birth defect or they're parents are treating son as a pet because of social media clout perhaps, but not biological girls.

>>149814298
>You're just lying at this point.
Tell me more about my life.

>>149799527
>>149799601
>>149800347
Kill all prude moralfaggots

>>149814298
>other people tell you their personal experience are different from yours
>”this is a lie”
Do you behave like this in real life conversations, if indeed you ever have any?

I miss that two page comic that was on paheal of meilin going to tylers birthday party in slutwear and cat ears in the first image, then getting gang banged by all the boys at the party in the second image

>>149814387
Well post it then

>>149804630
It's odd those didn't make a resurgence after Twilight. You'd think the girls who grew up reading that dreck would want sexier and better written stuff in the same vein once they grew up.

>>149814843
I dont have it sadly

>kids biologically maturing years earlier than before
>the state working to push back sexual education and with it awareness and tools for safe sex
>social activists working to late teens and remove all responsibility for their sex life from them
This all just feels like a recipe for disaster.

>>149814966
>the state working to push back sexual education and with it awareness and tools for safe sex
The fact that political violence is at an all time in this time period especially is just baffling

>>149814966
>the state working to push back sexual education and with it awareness and tools for safe sex
The fact that political violence is at an all time low in this time period especially is just baffling

>>149802452
Skirts+tights weren't really a thing for girls in the west in that time period no, that's more a 2010s+ thing where tights suddenly came into fashion again, usually with 12+ girls trying to push boundaries. My highschool had like constantly rotating rules about them because of it.

>>149801049
Right? Kids are hitting puberty scarily fast these days. Imagine how traumatized that little girl would be if she actually started bleeding from her vag and didn't know why.

>>149815296
I went to middle school in the early 00 and if you wanted to see a girl in tights, you had to risk injury rubbernecking during phys ed (it was technically separate, but they were just on the other side of the gym or field). With how teen girls dress nowadays, I don't know how boys survive. Literally anything gets your dick hard at that age. I would have needed to invest in a cock cage.

Also wonder how the boys in middle school coped during the twerk craze days. I was already out of HS by then.

>>149803010
People weren't saying "lol" or "epic"

>>149813107
No. It takes place in an alternate reality where panda transformations and old Chinese ladies who don't act like goblins exist.

>>149801201
Hm, hold up. How could she possibly not know? I'm a xilennial and I think I learned about periods at a very young age from tampon and sanitary pad commercials. They're all over daytime tv?

>>149815630
To be fair they don't say "lol" in the movie, do they?

>>149813124
That move Mei does 2 seconds in, I've only seen overweight, middle-aged white women do that after they've had too much to drink and are really feeling the music. It shows up in media every now and then.

https://youtu.be/BgfF5e1Xysg?feature=shared

>>149815778
Well I watched those same commercials too but I didn't know what they were for. Maybe it was for incontinence. But me and my brother discussed it aloud and then my mom gave us a very sanitized explanation. Something about eggs and nests.

>>149815796
There's a girl in her school who says it twice.

>>149815796
Nobody in the movie says "ey" or even has a Canadian accent, either. Everyone sounds generic white american.

>>149815843
well that's because the cast is American. I think there's only one use of "ey" by the ticket seller at the Skydome. They use the word "hosers" though.

>>149801049
It's difficult when said puberty makes itself known turning her into a mini adult looks wise. Ppl think my niece is like 23, but she's 13 with huge boobs. You can't control stuff like that, it happens. Best Breast you can do is get them accustomed and see what they think. She thinks it's cool she's "an adult", she handles herself fine, but I keep telling her she might look older, she is still a dumb kid and needs to really think things through.

She dresses like someone trying to fit into their old clothes 10 years later, it's hilarious. Her mom really needs to get her properly fitted and stop buying her damn "they fit ok" Walmart bras.

>>149815573
>Literally anything gets your dick hard at that age.
Part of the point of this movie was "hey girls are horny too!". Domee Shi didn't even push back on that point.

>>149799467 (OP)
This movies was so lame, it's not even universally appealing like any other Pixar film before, like you need to had been a girl in the early 2000s obsessed with British boy bands in order to find it relatable.

>>149816014
Some people were kind of offended by Mei and friends ogling and catcalling the basketball players.

>>149816045
British?

>>149815940
Reminds me of the Chesire Murders. A guy spotted two women at a supermarket and stalked them to their home because he was attracted to the one on the right.
He raped and killed her. When the police told him she was actually 11, dude lost it. He swore up and down he thought she was an older teen.

Funnily, he killed but didn't rape the 17-year-old sister who looked 30.

>>149816045
The philosophy was that "in the particular is contained the universal", that's what people said at least. Critics are expected to watch a wide variety of movies, so this run of the mill coming of age story was nothing.

>>149816142
>Cheshire Murders
And now the pedo murderer is identifying as a woman and is locked up with more victims

>>149806643
Kinda?
How old was she?

>>149816142
Yeah, I look back at myself at 18 and man, I looked young but maybe early 20s. Some kids look baby as fuck at 18, looking like 12 yr olds. It's quite a thing when something like puberty makes you look way older, younger. Braces too, if I see them, I just assume they are 14 and in 9th grade because every girl i swear had braces at that time. My sisters, my cousins, no one over 18.

>>149816535
>I was allegedly frigid, so everyone else must have been too
>no, we have to pretend girls never do anything inappropriate towards boys, we must maintain the moral high ground!
lol

>>149813812
I'm not that anon but I'm American and 5th grade is about when I learned exactly how sex worked. Like it kind of works in stages-- as a little kid i got that women get pregnant and give birth, I don't remember ever not knowing that. A little older than that I got that sex was a thing that exists and was hinted at on TV and stuff, but didn't get how the exact mechanics worked. I did get that sex was how pregnancy started and also, from the shit I watched, that men can get cucked and not necessarily know if a kid is theirs.

But it was only in 5th grade that I specifically learned in detail "penis goes in vagina" and felt like an idiot for not thinking of it sooner because that's so obvious. Like I'd seen sex scenes on TV etc. but just never thought till then exactly what was going on.

Anyway, point I'm making is that anon didn't necessarily go from "thinking the stork brings babies" to knowing about sex years later; like it's possible to get that sex is a thing that exists but just not think about exactly how it works until it's directly taught. Maybe I was just an incurious kid but I didn't feel any need to know more beyond "women get pregnant and have babies" and then once I was 10/11 and starting to see references to sex in media and wonder what exactly it involved, I got my answer.

>>149799467 (OP)
Hopefully they were made furries instead

I'm just posting to add another 'my mom didn't fucking tell me' story to the pile. I thought I was dying, and what's worse I was home alone with my older brother and HE thought I was dying too.

>>149802452
born in 2004 but no I have never seen a girl dressed like this

>>149818469
>2002
>born in 2004
Anyways, Mei's outfit reminds me of what a 4 year old would wear on a chilly day

>>149816142
I mean, like. It’s still bad to rape and murder an 18 year old.

>>149813609
Retard.

>>149818449
How did everything sort out in the end?

Thread got me thinking of the comic "Sandcastle" which got adapted to OLD in 2021 and how the youngest character acts when she get's her period being like "Nah that's normal" and that's it.

>>149820627
well it's a French comic isn't it

>>149820472
That is the case.

>>149812965
yeah that's how autobiographical content works, genius. memoirs aren't aimed at people the age of the person in the flashback. weird how we didn't pretend it was some great outrage to tell those kinds of stories until stupid faggots like you decided a thing that had been happening uncontroversially for centuries was actually super dangerous and bad.

>>149821624
Hi, Domee! Control your bleeding vag please.

>little girl shakes her butt
>"ummmm, sweaty, I was there in 2002 and girls never gyrated in the 2000's"
>little girl gets her period
>"ummm, sweaty, I was there in the 2000's, and girls didn't get their period in 2002"
>Anon says they knew what sex was and weren't sheltered from it
>"Ummm, sweaty, I was there in the 2000's, and kids weren't aware of human sexuality in 2002"
>Anon says they experienced an unusually early/late puberty
>"Ummm, sweaty, I was there in the year 2002, and everybody hit puberty when I did"
>Anon mentions that the tropes of kids not liking broccoli and little boys being skeeved-out by girls always struck him as forced
>"Yeah, but I didn't like broccoli/Yeah, but I didn't like girls"
>cartoon girls catcall boys from the bleachers
>"Ummm, sweaty, I was there in the year 2002, and little girls were sexless noodles in the early 2000's, I can assure you"
>little girl wears outfit typical of what her self-inserting creator might have worn or wanted to wear
>multiple posts debating the spread and history of skintight leggings as a fashion trend among North American girls
>person relates their experience
>NUH-UH
Solipsism: The thread

>>149820627
She does? The youngest one was like 5 at the beginning, then she got accidentally pregnant and her baby died IIRC. I don't think she knew where babies come from

I wonder if I saw this movie when I was 12 or 13 if it would have given me yellow fever. Maybe not considering how not-Asian Mei's redhead form looks.

>>149799467 (OP)
Probably

>>149799467 (OP)
I lost my virginity watching this movie

>>149824562

jacking off to underage asian school girls doesnt make you a non-virgin. you have to actually stick your dick in a vagina. something you will never do.

>>149824604
jokes on you, I was jacking off to the hot asian mom

>>149816142
>Funnily, he killed but didn't rape the 17-year-old sister who looked 30.

yes...funnily. that is the word

>>149820627
She’s going through magic hyper excellerated aging, so if she had something like a period it probably only lasted like a minute instead of a week, which is much less concerning or troublesome.

Best form.

>>149799467 (OP)
Why do you say that?

>>149801201
>the moment I talk about sex ed to a kid they stop being kids
Big moron moment. I bet they told them death isn't death but "big sleep" or some shit. Pray for them kids.

>>149799467 (OP)
People bleed in Turning Red?

>>149815573
My school was smaller so we were never separate outside of some technical stuff. Towards my final years, because half the time people wouldn't even have to get into uniform [and most of the girls picked shorts 1-2 sizes too small so they were basically pained onto their asses] so whenever they had to do squats or the like it was pretty much a free show. Days with jumping jacks on the roster too, bunch of bouncing small town farm girls with fat tits.

Pretty sure the gym teachers did it on purpose, one of them was a fat lesbian and the other married one of the girls a few years ahead of us the moment she graduated and had been fucking her in his office for years prior to that.

>>149824982

you still a virgin.

>your own normal bodily functions and biology are a secret that should be kept from you
>"I don't want to feel awkward"
You stupid fucking americans and your puritanism.
No wonder all of you grow up broken, neurotic and schizo.
Stupid fucks.

>>149828851
and I will remain so until they invent the technology to transport myself to the cartoon world, where I will marry Mei's milfy mom

>>149829044
She's already married, and traditional. I don't think she's leaving Jun for a white boy.

>>149826271
Keep it in Super Mario 3. Kemonomimi is always a shit form. Her panda form is best. Even her ugly aunts became attractive after they transformed. They went from "UGH!" to "Hey, uh...which one's single?"

https://youtu.be/KJtHmVeQ1Wo?si=GDGs44MeuLY9JhL1

>>149813745
>Canada had the third-largest contingent of troops sent to Afghanistan in response to the attacks.
Just go and die for the jews, no thanks.

>>149813812
>Do Americans really? You don’t think your kids wonder how babies are made or they don’t simply ask you before then? What would you say if they did, the fucking stork brings them?
They will know by instinct because I intend to raise my children the same they do it in the rain forest or china, children watching their parents having sex.

>>149816191
>And now the pedo murderer is identifying as a woman and is locked up with more victim
If those women didn't want to get raped maybe they shouldn't have committed a crime.

Mei a cute

>>149801201
What an insufferable cunt

>>149828079
Because I've heard anecdotes.

>>149828212
Mei may or may not bleed, but Ming sure thought she did.

The "profile picture wearing sunglasses in car" demographic has spoken.

>>149830236

the fuck.. why would you need to have that convo with a SON. the son isnt going to menstruate. what a stupid fuck

>>149801201
Ok so even assuming this is real and the kid actually picked up on a throwaway gag for which they have no context, the movie literally has a perfect metaphor for the changes your body goes through during puberty.
If you can lie to your kids about Santa you can lie to them about turning into a big animal when they get older.

>>149830285
I dunno, maybe he couldn't change the subject fast enough.

>>149830304
>kid finds this cool and is disappointed when it turns out not to be true
That’s how you turn your kid into a furry.

>>149829268
His name is James... James Rolf who is as white as you can get.
>>149829399
You will get your kids taken away from you by CPS if you do that.

Not until they're 10 and in 5th grade.
>>149830304
Nanjing, not Santa.

>>149829268
His name is James... James Rolfe, and he is as white as you can get.
>>149829399
You will get your kids taken away from you by CPS if you do that.

Not until they're 10 and in 5th grade.
>>149830304
Nanjing, not Santa.

>>149831123
Actually, his name is JIN.

Would this movie work if it was about a boy trying to hide his boner instead?

>>149831171
James, and he's real, it's shows that you can still put celebrities in cartoons, it also means that the celebrities people care about are all online celebrities and are not restricted from Hollywood anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1tU61Nyv1w

>>149831223
>Turning Hard
>Coming Soon (if he’s not careful)

>>149831154
>You will get your kids taken away from you by CPS if you do that.
Puritans.
>>149831321
>Turning Hard
>Coming Soon (if he’s not careful)
lol

>>149831340
It's a world wide thing, you don't fuck with CPS.

My issue is the metaphor is only sometimes a metaphor, sometimes it is literal. This screws with the message hard because you can't tell when something is supposed to be metaphor or literal at a glance.

>>149831265
Wait...I thought we were talking about Mei's dad. Who is this guy you're talking about?

>>149831545
We are, James Rolfe is what Mei's dad is based on.

>>149831223
Something something going bananas, peel retracts, turns green when around girls.

>>149831395
When the panda is on screen, it's literally there. Thats why they had the panda break the bed when she laid on it.

>>149831898
though I will say the metaphor is stretched to its limit

>>149831831
>Something something going bananas, peel retracts, turns green when around girls.
Wouldn't he turn into a skeleton instead?

Males should become pandas too.

>>149833142
Well that was an early draft of the story.

>>149833258
Why it was discarded?

Guess what I found on the front page of cracked (dunno why I go there, I never click on the articles anymore becaus it's been shit for many years).

>>149833370
I dunno, I guess they went back on focusing on a male cousin of Mei's. Maybe they wanted something closer to home.

>>149801049
Depends on where you live. I live Scandinavia and frankly can't remember a time where I did NOT know how reproduction works. I recall sex ed in school as early as first or second grade (although it was focused more on the pregnancy and birth than the intercourse, but that might just be my faulty memory). Another thing that de-stigmatised it was the fact that one of the most popular monthly magazines for kids and teens has a section where readers send in letters with questions regarding puberty, meaning you frequently saw reassuring paragraphs written by a nurse that went something like "don't worry, it's completely normal that your body does X, and here is why". That being said, I remember being extremely sad and crying about it at age 12 because I thought my childhood was over and I didn't want to be an adult. :(

>>149805260
most girls know what it is when it starts if they get taught basic sex ed in schools. It's not the 1800s where girls dont know shit anymore about how their bodies work.

>>149807823
since forever? I knew some girls that got their periods at 9 or 10 when I was in elementary school

>>149835185
I take it that's your first period or something? Kind of weird that's seen as THE demarcation point. Boy's first sperm isn't as well noted.

>>149835263
A lot of parents (or at least mine) seem to depend on the schools to tell their kids what it's about.

>>149835185
i didnt get mines till I was 13. I cried in my closet about it kek. Thankfully it didnt become super regular until my 20s so my highschool years weren't plagued with it aside from once a year or so

>>149835318
Did you cry because you were so late or because it happened?

Funny thing about Turning Red is that it almost implies that Mei didn't get her period during the story because she actually had the panda transformation instead. Also her mother says it's "too soon" and that really doesn't make sense.

>>149835357
honestly i think it was because it happened. I didnt want to deal with the inconvenience and took pride in it not happening to me early

>>149835185
I think this is true in most of western Europe, even here in bongland which is traditionally more uptight than continental Europe I definitely knew the facts of life by the time I was like 7 or 8.

>>149835293
I don't remember the first time I spunked but I do remember quite vividly the first time I popped my whole bellend out of my foreskin. That was a revelation.

>>149799467 (OP)
Do you bleed?

>>149835578
I do remember the first time I came and it was kind of painful and I thought I hurt myself and I tried to "keep it in" because I didn't know what was happening. Also being American, I am circumcised, and I'm not entirely sure when I realized that. Remember reading a Benjamin Spock book at about age 10 that described circumcision as the most common thing in America and that befuddled me. Definitely wish I wasn't cut. Early erections were tight, but now I have some shaft skin to work with

>>149804913
>>149835736
cute

>>149835578
The guy posted a shit post meme from Reddit, it's not real and you're just lying.

>>149833142
No, that's stupid. The men went to war, the women stay behind, so they needed a special gift that allowed them to protect themselves and the village.

>>149836068
inb4 "that would be a better movie! >:("

>>149831395
The panda is never a metaphor. It's only a metaphor to coomers and pervs who think it means sex. The panda is literally just that: Mei's Panda form. Nothing to do with her period or vagina. In fact, by the end of the movie she still hasn't had a period yet.

>>149836114
Just because the panda is physically there doesn't mean it's not a symbol.

>>149836129
The issue is that it represents a lot (too many?) things? Cultural heritage, womanhood, a developing body, menstruation itself, discordant parts of you personality...

>>149836089
A better movie would've been this.

Domee Shi played Square Enix games (look at her DA) and she's a yaoi fan (look at her DA), so this could be plausible.

>>149835185
Same, I live in Norway and knew about it since I was like seven or eight cause people weren't that weird about it.
I don't recall doing sex-ed until fifth or six grade and that was mostly about pregnancy, horomones and consent cause that and social studes were kinda patched together.

>>149836514
He posted a shit post that came from Reddit, also you're lying, people don't learn about that stuff until they're 10 and in 5th grade.

I'm sorry, please stop trolling.

>>149814013
>>149836004
>>149814084
>>149836604
Nice, I guess solipsism really is the theme of this thread.

>>149836715
Is it really a theme when it's just one schizo? He probably has to post this stuff to stop his mind from collapsing, like telling his hallucinations to go away because they're not real.

>>149836715
>>149836843
Game Sack is a real thing that is beloved by billions of people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R779hMGGC4

Writer Julia Cho said in an interview that when they were brainstorming the panda transformation, they had a version where it would cause Mei's clothes to rip and she'd be "in her underwear" when human again, but that was scrapped quickly. So I guess these shorts could be shorter.

>>149837019
The Japs would've done this.

>>149837120
If the Japanese would've done this we would've got a movie about a group of bears named after candy, not what >>149837019 said.

>>149812965
This is what happens when 99% of media has been straight white male centric for the last 100 years. Now idiots like this think that lived experience is universal and can't understand why anyone would ever create any media that doesn't depict that.

>>149837019
How would that even work? If the transformation rips the clothes then it would rip the underwear. Plus when she transforms is the panda just wearing underwear the whole time?

>>149837623
They didn't have the balls to make her naked.

>>149837623
>>149837645
though it could be Hulk logic, like the pants stay on

>>149837623
>How would that even work? If the transformation rips the clothes then it would rip the underwear.
Same as with Hulk, I'm guessing.
>Plus when she transforms is the panda just wearing underwear the whole time?
That's more of an issue and is probably the reason they dropped the idea, having a panda go around in bra and panties.

>>149837698
nah highly doubt that they actually had the panda in bra and panties, they just wanted to have cake and eat it too. Though does Mei wear a bra? She's a bit flat.

>>149837749
Incidentally, it's been reported that an early concept (like the pitch) has Mei praying for a bigger bra size to fill up.

>>149837749
>13
>not exactly slim
Unless she's an absolute genetic flattie she's probably got pokies at least and wearing a training bra to keep them from being too noticeable.

>>149837921
>not exactly slim
wish they were somehow able to capture the soul of these hand drawn designs by Tom Gately.

>>149801380
Never been refuted. Can't be refuted. Daughter(s) = living sex toy for men in the future.

>>149804502
>there are women on /co/
no wonder this board is called /co/mblr by the rest of the site

>>149837019
It was about 34 minutes into this interview:
https://www.scriptapart.com/episodes/episode-44-turning-red-julia-cho-interview

>>149799467 (OP)
I genuinely can't fathom having to deal with that monthly for 40+ years not to mention the pain.

>>149813799
The Rowdy Ruff boys defeat was a classic "love defeats hate" thing, they werent just boys, they were evil hateful little kids created by Mojo Jojo

>>149838502
Life as a woman is a giant L. I know that women have that magical ability they are born with where they can get infinite sex with 0 effort or requirements just by existing, but they don't even value that, and they can only get it from the guys they are attracted to (Chad) from like highschool to their late 20s/early 30s, then he doesn't wanna bang her anymore. Now lets talk about all the other ways life is one giant L for women:
>smaller
>slower
>weaker
>cant turn their emotions off, emotional (not logical) thing is their default factory setting
>struggles with spatial reasoning
>struggles with thinking about the past or the future
>tunnel vision on the present moment
>has a narrow window of opportunity to breed and then they become permanently sterile
>periods
>the shit tier experience of child birth
>their cells age faster
>their entire biological and cultural/social purpose is to be a baby machine and baby sitter
>they go crazy if they cant do this eventually (they have an early and hard time limit)
>if chad wont give it to them then they feel "forced" to "settle" for the guys they always friend zoned
>they scratch the baby itch but resent him for not being chad
>men only tolerate them because we need their holes wrapped around our cocks or because some men want kids
>men openly admit other men make superior friends
>women dont even really like each other, they are notorious for being bitchy catty and gossipy towards one another
>all female solidarity goes out the window in the presence of chad, then they fight each other (in the social domain) over who gets to bend over for him
>women do not understand male hobbies and struggle to derive any enjoyment from them
>women need to socialize constantly or else they get crippling depression and identity fragmentation
On and on and on and on. Life as a woman is a giant loss. I am SO glad I was born as a man. I can get pussy. Women struggle to get happiness. GGNORE.

>>149838653
The most mediocre man will always beat the most peak woman.

>>149812091
Same but I never asked what it meant because I knew it would be icky.

>>149838653
>Age faster
>Live longer

>>149839037
Here comes a woman to chime in, conveniently ignoring that men only have slightly shorter life spans on average due to having their bodies destroyed by blue collar work. Thanks for proving my point about how women cant into logic.

>>149838492
I think winning a music video contest to see the boy band would be a better plot than the one they used where they kind of ho'ed out Mei's panda forrm.

>>149801524
>everyone has to learn how to wipe their ass properly.

Not if you are Indian.

>>149804927
nah that aint it
I remember kissing on the chicks was a common greeting but I would get yelled at for trying to kiss like in movies when I was a kindergartener. I remember vividly getting grounded for it. and by grounded I mean only playing in my room, oh the humanity.
kids werent disgusted, they just dont have a single clue what it is or why its special as your brain doesnt give you signals yet.
>>149813096
is it really a trope when its real and common? granted not that young, mostly late adult or early middle age but still common.
>>149804927
>Yeah, no. The whole "girls are icky and have cooties" thing they had in cartoons always felt like a forced trope, like children ostensibly disliking broccoli. Never understood it. Felt made-up. The Rowdyruff Boys episode of PPG drove me nuts with that. Bro, a girl kissed you and you hated it so much that you DIED from it? What's WRONG with you?
I hate that. cartoons teach kids its cool to not listen to parents and school is boring when school and studying with friends was a lot of fun.
>boo nerd
guess what all my friends were

>>149839543
meant to reply the third one to >>149813799

>>149805168
what you are describing means the viewer for such a film needs a level of maturity and that means age rating.

>>149837921
She's asian. No pokies. Secondary feminine features are hard for pureblooded asians to develop before pregnancy.

>>149839578
Turning Red is rated PG, which meant something, I dunno, 30 years ago.

can we all agree the movie is author's thinly veiled fetish and move on?
>its about herself
that is a fetish
>>149805226
it being gendered, meaning only girls feel uncomfortable, probably pissed off a lot of feminists.

>>149839616
OK I can see you're leaving a lot of comments, so I guess I'll just repond to this one. What exactly is the fetish, except being semi-autobiographical.
>pissed off a lot of feminists
Would be the first time I heard of feminists being pissed off about this movie.

>>149805703
government does subliminal sex ed in advertisements and movies around the time public schools should start teaching it so kids arent caught completely off guard by it.
no I have no evidence but something similar happened when I was in 3th grade and some documentary I was watching became the topic of science class the next week.

>>149837019
>>149837698
What if instead of becoming a red panda, she just grew like the Hulk? WIP