It seems that a lot of the period tropes (Menstrual Menace, All Periods Are PMS, No Periods, Period) are in need of looking over, as there seems to be some confusion.
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!It's supposed to be about women or Action Girls who are supernatural or in supernatural settings becoming even more aggressive and powerful during the period. I've seen one instance of misuse in an example of Animaniacs. The correct trope should be All Periods Are PMS.
Edit: I actually can't find the example at the moment, but I may run a wick check soon.
edited 27th Jul '13 7:10:28 PM by MikuruFan
We voted to fix No Periods, Period (move the 99% of the article that was aversions to its own pages) but the effort died.
The reason why the No Periods, Period effort died is because it wanted to YKTTW something.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWell, it looks like someone has added a new trope, All Periods Are PMS, which would probably fit better in most examples than Menstrual Menace.
edited 28th Jul '13 4:18:40 AM by maddthesane
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!Not new. That dates back to 2012 according to the YKTTW archive.
Incidentally, it got out of YKTTW with just one hat.
Ok, never mind then.
edited 29th Jul '13 7:57:02 PM by StarSword
Trust me, I'm an engineer!All Periods Are PMS is relatively new - I remember reading the YKTTW during the No Period Periods discussion.
All Periods Are PMS, like most All X Are Y pages, doesn't work very well. Those pages only work when they cover the assumption that all X are Y - therefore they only list subversions, lampshading etc. As it is, the page is just PMS - every example of a character experiencing PMS, every example of a character not experiencing PMS and every example of anyone ever referring to PMS.
However, we should have a page about how PMS is portrayed. I think the YKTTW suggested a name like PMS: Psycho, Moody, Sullen.
But of course, All Periods Are PMS is still a million times better than No Periods, Period, which is horrifically broken.
It's because Most Writers Are Male that mentioning periods is notable at all. All Periods Are PMS probably needs a better name, but I don't know about a trope of portrayal of PMS in general. No Periods, Period should be exampleless or stick to Lampshade Hanging like Nobody Poops.
The No Periods, Period TRS
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I personally believe that these tropes may need a coordinated cleanup effort.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanThat discussion agreed to remove aversions from No Periods, Period and make a new page called Period Problems. So shall we stick the page's current contents into a YKTTW named Period Problems? (Granted, much of the current content isn't about period problems, or necessarily about any trope at all).
I suppose you could take out a chunk of this page that fits Period Problems and YKTTW it.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI think part of the issue is the name. If it was Supernatural Period, it would cause less confusion than Menstrual Menace. Most of the links to Menstrual Menace would probably fit All Periods Are PMS.
Edit: perhaps a rename of All Periods Are PMS to The Dreaded PMS, if the name is that much of a problem?
Edit 2:
agreed.
edited 18th Aug '13 8:43:48 PM by maddthesane
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!Good suggestions so far
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I went ahead and cleared all aversions from No Periods Periods, and I'll now throw up some YKTT Ws.
I agree with a general cleanup of these tropes. Some of them have bad names and others have misuse concerns.
Eta: I have also moved the list of deleted examples to No Periods Period Aversions; sandboxes ought not to be in Main/.
edited 18th Aug '13 11:18:56 PM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanThanks - I started some YKTTW threads, all up for grabs.
Breasts have strong sexual/erotic connotations that played a role in the cut of the index (—> Keep Abreast Of This Index); I do not know of any similar implications of menstruation.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

From the description, it seems that a lot of links to Menstrual Menace should more properly be linked to No Periods, Period as an aversion, or a new trope (or an existing one) about women being cranky during that time of the month. This was brought to my attention after (1) reading the actual Menstrual Menace page where it states that it's supernatural, and (2) when I saw it on A Hairy Problem, where the second example might count, the first one definitely does not.
edited 27th Jul '13 11:10:08 AM by maddthesane
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!