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Narjas Zatat
Jun 12, 2019

A man made the mistake of comparing skinned knees from a football match to period pain in tweet that went viral after people called it out as nonsense.
Twitter user @SARGEE_ attracted the ire of thousands online after he tweeted a picture of a fallen footballer and next to it, a pair of bloody, scraped knees.
He wrote: “Until women experience this, I don’t wanna hear about period pains.”
People online descended on the tweet
@softerstark @__sargee Put a pad on it I guess🤷♀️😂— s 🌙 ࿔*:・゚ (@s 🌙 ࿔*:・゚) 1552774643
What's ironic is the knees he included in the tweet actually belong to a woman
@transscribe @__sargee skflsjdksdksdk kate the best part is... those knees belong to a woman i am cRYING https://t.co/xt2HAcTlOX— kivan - shop closed for 2021 (@kivan - shop closed for 2021) 1552780024
@KivaBay @SiobhanFTB @transscribe @__sargee https://t.co/Xf5pE6ouY0— The Trash (@The Trash) 1552865477
"Oh my sweet summer child"
@__sargee This is.... nothing? Like you think turf burn is bad? Oh my sweet summer child.— Katelyn Burns (@Katelyn Burns) 1552776071
One woman pointed out the false dichotomy in his statement - after all, women play football and scrape their knees too...
@__sargee You do know that women play soccer and skin their knees along with delivering large babies out of a small… https://t.co/GM77apke4E— Clara Jeffery (@Clara Jeffery) 1552794372
And women play rugby, too...
@__sargee Just wait until you find out about women's rugby. https://t.co/gsEbIXJLlV— Joanne Harris (@Joanne Harris) 1552836745
What's the correct course of action here - ridicule or just moving on?
@__sargee https://t.co/b61TefOrYP— bel (@bel) 1552704847
I see your Aunt Flo and raise you an "Uncle Patella"
@NanoHydraulic @alexandraerin @__sargee "Dude. Can't do it tonight. I've got my visit from Uncle Patella."— Jason Brown ( ༎ຶŎ༎ຶ ) (@Jason Brown ( ༎ຶŎ༎ຶ )) 1552795097
@zota @NanoHydraulic @alexandraerin @__sargee “Uncle Patella” https://t.co/IKcmy7fRsr— Sadie (@Sadie) 1552823514
Also, what exactly is the point he's trying to make?
@__sargee I don't understand. Do you think women don't play sports, or women are invulnerable? What's the point you… https://t.co/NHq0zXGHfm— Alexandra Erin (@Alexandra Erin) 1552782738
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