What is with Trump's fetish about women bleeding? He has some serious problems with sexism.

[nikibatts]

FLOTUS is just as bad...she has to support him whenever he takes a swipe at women.

How many other media folks have said or implied that Trump is crazy? Mika has not been the only one.

[pirateshipdude]

1. A lot of men (religion) have issues with menstruation. Eom

[MineralMan]

4. Yup. In some religions, menstruating women have to

go away, so as not to contaminate things. They are "unclean," you see. Or so I understand, anyhow.

[oberliner]

12. By "some religions" do you mean Judaism?

Or what?

[MineralMan]

13. I mean "some religions," as I said.

In a number of religions around the world, menstruating women separate themselves from society. Judaism is one of them. But it's far from the only one. Here's an article on menstrual huts in Nepal:

https://www.bustle.com/articles/198540-menstrual-huts-still-exist-and-heres-why-thats-a-problem

Here's another article about religious views of menstruation in other religions:

http://indiafacts.org/views-of-menstruation-in-religions-and-cultures-around-the-world/

And here's a Wikipedia article on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_and_menstruation

And, here's another on menstrual taboos in various religions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_taboo

So, when I said "some religions," I meant some religions.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Well, there are some rather restrictive regulations written into Leviticus IIRC...

Look to the most orthodox Jewish and Islamic 'laws' about contact with women during periods, including how to sterilize clothing and other things women might handle. It's pretty drastic, TBS. Fundamentalist Christians tend to like the Old Testament more than the New. I assume it is true of all fundamentalist religious fanatics, and since all of the "Big Three" religions trace their roots to the Abrahamic system, they seem to enforce the same kind of misogynistic bullshit.

That kind of silly shit gets engrained in people's heads and leads to germophobic based feelings about menstrual cycles. It's been widely reported that Trump is some kind of germophobe, and it is also widely known he has his issues with women, probably based largely on fear and radical misinformation. How he treats women seems largely based on what she can do for him personally.

[Orrex]

8. And some are just ignorant assholes for non-religious reasons

Newt Gingrich, for instance, when commenting on why women can't serve in combat:

"Females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections."

[pirateshipdude]

9. For sure. Eom

[DetlefK]

2. comic

[lindysalsagal]

10. Awesome. Simply awesome.

[delisen]

3. Woman blood-unclean. Breast milk-disgusting.Golden Showers-let it rain!

Female bodily fluids fetishism.

[lindysalsagal]

11. It's all probably freudian about men's seed being stolen or some other b.s. batshit bunk.

Women's emissions remind them of their own or something....

[hamsterjill]

5. Because he is one sick bastard.

His thinking is probably just as the up-posts indicate as to menstruation, religion, etc., but let us never forget that Trump is, simply, one sick bastard.

Melania, et al are enablers.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. I wouldn't call it sexism so much as us guys just not...

getting some things about women. We really have no idea what menstruation, pregnancy, birth and other specifically female things are like. We are somewhat awed by it all, and maybe even a little jealous that you can handle all that.

Most of us just deal with it, but guys like Trump can't handle their Id.

Last night on MSNBC one conservative commentator said Cheeto was an ignoramus, and another said he was as dumb as a bag of hair.