Women shouldn’t be scared to discuss periods – Hartley

After being criticized for discussing the subject on the radio during the Ashes, commentator and former England spinner Alex Hartley says women “shouldn’t be afraid to talk about their periods.”

Hartley claimed she had been “grumpy” when she first started having her period during England and Australia’s third Test. Hartley said she had been “grumpy.”

Hartley claimed that while there have been “thousands” of positive social media posts, there have also been some significant negative ones.

On the No Balls podcast, Hartley said, “I have no problem talking about this sort of thing.”

Hartley, 32, continued, “It’s totally normal for people to talk about it if a young girl hears I’m on my period.”

It shouldn’t be taboo, they say. Women shouldn’t be afraid to discuss their periods. It is both typical and typical.

“I received 4, 000 direct messages from people saying “thank you for talking about it,” which I received.

There are a lot of girl dads, mothers, teenagers, and men defending me. Not everything was bad.

Hartley and her co-host, England bowler Kate Cross, discussed an email a female listener in India received who was prohibited from playing cricket with boys because of her period.

A 2022 campaign in the UK predicted that 64% of girls in school will stop playing sports because they would suffer from period pain and shame.

According to Hartley, “The more it is talked about, the more it is normalized.”

Menstrual bleeding and players wearing white during Test matches are frequently brought up in cricket. Players in England have stated that they want to continue wearing the custom’s colors.

“My first period was at a club cricket game,” Hartley said. We were all dressed in white. I went to the restroom and had just started my period, so you’re a little embarrassed.

“I was a very old man. My friends had gone through it all.

Has anyone got any kind of sanitary products? I had to go into the dressing room and say I had had my first period. Being 13 and going through that.

Cross, who played England’s most recent of her eight red-ball games in 2023, claimed that test-match weeks can be “anxiety-inducing.” Some players, according to her, took pills to delay their period.

Everyone would rather do it than take the chance that something bad might happen while you’re wearing white on television, she said.