SCPF Campaign Seeks to Synchronize Women's Periods ... But Why?

(MoneyWatch)  Miami's SCPF has launched an attempt to get all the women in the world to have their periods at the same time. It is not clear why.

The social media campaign, titled The Global Period Project, purports to be an experiment to find out whether women connected via online networks will experience synchronous periods in the same way that women who live together in dorms do. Women are asked to log in and record the date of their periods, and they will then be linked to other women who recorded the same date.

Inevitably, the project has a blog, but not, apparently, a client. One of the "demands" of the campaign is:

demanding governments around the world to grant women a five-day-long weekend every 28 days.

Most research into "synchronous menstruation" has been to investigate whether pheremones play a roll in lining up women's periods.

Rather less work has been done on the question of whether it is really all that unexpected for women living, eating, working and commuting together in the same environment and on the same timetable to end up menstruating in like fashion.

Either way, SCPF's experiment seems to doomed to fail -- unless they have a feminine sanitation product client in the offing.

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