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(shouting at a large crowd of elderly ladies) Go away! I don’t want to catch the menopause!
— Eoin McLove • Father Ted
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The shouted demand treats menopause as something that could be caught from a crowd of older women. That mistaken premise supplies the absurdity. Read as a comic outburst, the line turns avoidance into an exaggerated fear; it does not offer a reliable description of menopause.
Context reviewed