Explain Menstrual Periods To Me Like IAMA [Cis] Man is a short piece of Interactive Fiction by Kevin McGowan, in which the male protagonist experiences a heavy period. It's based on a comment McGowan posted to Reddit in response to a thread of the same title.
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Explain Menstrual Periods To Me Like IAMA [Cis] Man contains examples of:
- All Periods Are PMS: The unrealistic elements of this trope (i.e. limiting PMS symptoms to irritability) are averted. The PMS symptoms themselves, however, are played spectacularly straight.
- Ambiguous Gender: As the title suggests, the protagonist is a cis man, but this isn't made explicit in the text of the story.
- Author Appeal:
- Color Motif: The bright red links symbolise blood.
- Hermaphrodite: Implied; the protagonist isn't mentioned as noticing any changes to his genitals, but since he's experiencing a full-blown menstrual period, he's presumably acquired a uterus and some kind of extra orifice.
- Morton's Fork: Whenever you decide to let the protagonist deal with his increasingly bloody crotch, it's going to be gross.
- Second-Person Narration: As is typical of interactive fiction.
