Okay, now that we know it needs fixing, how are we going to fix it?
My suggestion is to rename Menstrual Menace into Supernatural Period.
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!I've created a new YKTTW for Supernatural Period here
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May I also suggest red-linking the Menstrual Menace page as a disambiguation page if/when Supernatural Period gets approved.
Edit: This expands Menstrual Menace to encompass entries other than "Period does bad supernatural things," to "Period does supernatural things."
edited 28th Nov '13 11:14:56 AM by maddthesane
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!I have edited a lot of the misuses and zero context examples that are on the second page of this thread. Most of them have the following as the edit reason: Menstrual Menace is about supernatural horrors caused by a woman's period. All Periods Are PMS is about women being cranky that time of the month. See this
Trope Repair Shop thread for more info.
edited 8th Dec '13 1:36:38 PM by maddthesane
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!There, most of the misuses should be fixed now.
Also, sorry if I was a little overzealous and changed a few that were Menstrual Menace: they might not have been explained properly.
Also sorry for not alphabetizing the change of tropes: it's kinda hard to do so if you want to keep something in the pasteboard with a tablet.
edited 8th Dec '13 11:45:10 PM by maddthesane
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!![]()
As for what needs to be done: rename of Menstrual Menace. I currently have a YKTTW entry for a rename here
. It itself has gone through a rename due to an ambiguous name.
Menstrual Menace is about supernatural horrors caused by a woman's period. My proposed "rename" removes the "horrors" part. If you don't think this is the right course of action, we could do just a rename and not a replacement trope.
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!Fair enough.
Although the renames that come to my mind are Supernatural Menstrual Menace and Magical Menstruation Gone Bad. There's probably a better name than those that can be used.
edited 10th Dec '13 9:13:28 AM by maddthesane
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!I'd appreciate some feedback or discussion about renaming Menstrual Menace.
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!Clocking for inactivity. There's stuff in the posts right above this one which can be discussed.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.I think I'd use Magical Menstruation Gone Bad for the rename, due to the confusion the "base" trope was having with the other name.
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!My YKTTW
for Supernatural Period, now named Magical Menstruation, has been changed a bit:
->This expands Menstrual Menace to encompass entries of "Period does supernatural things." Menstrual Menace will not be deleted. Instead. It would be a subtrope of this one, covering specifically the "Period does bad supernatural things."
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!Also trimmed down the explanation to be more generic and less of a copy of Menstrual Menace.
Get out of my mind, idea! I already have an idea in there!

Wow. This trope needs fixin'