Tiktok: When a viral video makes believe that the skin of women takes off after their period

In a video published on his Tiktok account, a model explains having to remove the skin from his face after his period, like a snake that turns.The hoax, who deceived more than one, says a lot about the ignorance of the menstrual cycle.

Nice blow from the model and actress Dakota Fink.The video where we see her tearing off what seems to be her facial skin has more than 21 million SUVs.Maliciously entitled "How could they not know?".

"Remember the times when men did not know that we had to withdraw layers of skin after our period," she wrote in legendary.We must recognize it, the staging is rather well executed and the almost perfect illusion.Because what Dakota Fink takes away is actually nothing other than a beauty mask.

“Dites moi que c’est une blague»

But the joke lasted, thanks to the complicity of some and the ignorance of many.On Twitter, Internet users played the game and some pushed the vice to the point of sharing their testimony: “I was harassed at school because of that, because I started to have to tear my skin veryYoung, while most women start in their twenties »recalls a surfer when another, inspired, quipped:“ I kept the skin that I lost after my first period and I plan to give it toMy daughter one day.»

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Faced with the scale of the buzz, the video sowed doubts in many men. “Dites moi que c’est une blague s’il vous plait» demande un utilisateur de TikTok décontenancé. “Pour toutes les filles, femmes et non-binaires qui ont leurs règles, je suis tellement désolé que vous ayez à traverser tant de choses», se désole un autre.Some admit having carefully sought the symptoms on the Internet after falling into the trap.

Taboo

Une blague qui rappelle qu’il suffit de remplacer “peau qui pèle» par “seins qui grossissent» ou “poils qui poussent» pour obtenir de véritables témoignages plus alarmants.If this funny fake is so successful, it is precisely because it echoes the taboos that surround the female biological mechanisms, often motifs of shame and sidelining.Old myths concerning the supposed or even evil origins of the rules have long contributed to demonize the female body, and the stigmata are still visible.

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Proof that we never insist too much on the challenges of awareness and education. Si les effets des règles sont multiples et varient selon les femmes, le “décollage» de peau n’en fait évidemment pas partie.But the ignorance of the phenomenon of menstruation, its symptoms, even the gynecological apparatus and its diseases, as endometriosis remains a question of public health.