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The Power of TikTok Pranks Are Hurting Women’s Health
Until there’s comprehensive women’s health education, these pranks only confuse impressionable women and girls.
I was strolling Twitter the other day and came across an elaborate Tiktok prank. It read “throwback to when men didn’t know we had to peel off layers of our skin after our period…” as the Tiktoker peeled off a facemask. The video has over 20 million views and if you know it’s a joke, it can be rather funny.
The more alarming part of these pranks is the 190k comments, which almost all go along with the prank. Even commenters who reply with confusion or disbelief are inundated with men and women (mainly women) replying with versions of “wtf, you didn’t know this happened.” Or “sex-ed really did fail us all.”
The issue is, sex-ed did fail us all and not everyone can discern fact from fiction. While most people in the comments are playing along with the joke and clearly realize the intentions, plenty of people, even grown women, are genuinely confused. Some…
