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The sponsor said, "I was thinking men not wanting to question women going to the bathroom bc they were afraid of hearing about periods. I'm not sure what Wondrous Ladies Room would have to do with this—that trope's just about women's bathrooms being portrayed as luxurious and more pleasant, right?"
Paragraph 4 of Women's Mysteries goes "this sort of thing is mostly just details about female biology (pregnancy, childbirth, birth control, menstruation, etc.) that men simply don't need (or want) to know and women don't care to discuss in mixed company".
I think it's implied that sometimes you don't question a woman using the bathroom search excuse for that reason.
I'll add that in to make it clearer.
For every low there is a high.
I'll add that in to make it clearer.
For every low there is a high.
Thanks for clearing this up, Unicorndance. I'm sorry for launching the page before you had a chance to respond to my clarification in the TLP comments.
Just realized we actually have Fake Period Excuse; changed the link to that.
Perhaps this should be in Is This an Example?, but I'm not talking about a specific example.
On the new trope Bathroom Search Excuse (which is when someone either asks to go to the bathroom but instead goes somewhere else or lies that they were just looking for the bathroom), it says that it can overlap with Women's Mysteries.
But the Women's Mysteries page says that it's defined as "stories, rituals, secrets, etc. which, for reasons of either magic or tradition, only women are permitted to know".
I know that women sometimes enter bathrooms to change tampons (being a woman myself) and I know about the Wondrous Ladies Room and that maybe she's implying she has Morning Sickness? Still odd, though.
Edited by Unicorndance