I really don't want to derail anymore but I just can't bite my tongue here. Periods aren't mundane and it isn't just about bleeding. Its a chapter of your life ending and a new one beginning, you are becoming a woman, but you are still a child. It's a very complicated thing to go through, despite it being normal and natural and yes women have dealt with it for millenia. That doesn't make it any less complex and it doesn't make women weak, its just reality. Puberty is tough for both men and women, but women are unique in that one day their perception on life is changed permanently. Because girls get their periods while they are still children, yeah its fucking hard. Coming to terms with it is a rite of passage that makes us stronger.
To kind of get back on topic here, thats what makes the KotH episode so great compared to the Moon Girl episode. Connie comes to terms with the fact she is changing, and she explains to Bobby how things are going to be a little different from here on out, but she's still Connie. I didn't watch the entire Moon Girl episode but I did go off and watch more clips, and what I got from that was borderline consumerism. It was shrugged off immediately in a completely unrelatable way and Moon Girl and her (sister...?) goes out and.....buys stuff.... yeah.....
I'm not against period episodes in children cartoons, especially if its a show intended for girls who might be going through that situation right now. But todays cartoon writers cannot write if their life depended on it, and it fucking shows. When they write, the children, the target audience, seems to be the last thing in their mind. They're more preoccupied with how adults are going to sing praises about how groundbreaking the episode was on social media so they can stroke their fucking egos about what great revolutionary writers they are.
