At first I was like “no don’t reblog it’ll weird people out” then I was like “oh right that’s the point”
STOP INCLUDING CRAMPS THAT MAKE YOU PASS OUT IN THESE LISTS AS IF THEY WERE NORMAL
THEY ARE NOT
IF YOUR CRAMPS ARE THIS BAD AND YOU’RE NOT A TEENAGER, SEE A DOCTOR
I REPEAT: THEY ARE NOT NORMAL. YOU COULD ACTUALLY BE ILL
YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO PASS OUT FROM YOUR PERIOD CRAMPS
I actually passed out at the start of my period a couple of times and three years ago I found out I have polycystic ovaries, but yknow. What’s so bad about periods.
Saw this on Essence Magazine’s Snapchat and thought it would be helpful💕
Yeah seriously, sex education never told me any of this in school. Little me was panicked seeing the dark coloured bits and i had no clue that’s just the normal colour blood goes when its clotted or dried.
the ideas “the stigma against menstruation is rooted in misogyny” and “not all women experience menstruation and not all people who menstruate are women” can coexist, and the same idea applies to most health and body related feminist issues
In the 1980s, a tampon manufacturer famously introduced an “improved” product designed to be more absorbent. Unfortunately, these new tampons proved to be the ideal breeding ground for Staph bacteria, resulting in an epidemic of toxic shock syndrome, which – you guessed it – can be fatal. Of course, all the major tampon companies responded by changing their products to be safer, and the TSS epidemic ended.
Oh, sorry, we were talking about Ideal World. Y’know, the place where human beings show each other empathy and people don’t die to save corporations a nickel. No, the overall composition of tampons hasn’t changed since the ‘80s – companies just slapped a warning label on their packages and called it a day. More baffling still, tampon companies are under no obligation from the FDA to list their ingredients, despite the potentially lethal consequences. That means that the average woman knows more about what’s in her made-in-China sweater from H&M than what’s in her vagina.
There is a bill that’s been floating around Congress – the Robin Danielson Act, introduced by Representative Carolyn Maloney – which would establish a research program with actual scientists studying the chemicals and materials in menstrual hygiene products. The only problem is that most members of Congress have never menstruated, and further, they have the imaginations of lobotomized goldfish, so they couldn’t give less of a fuck. Maloney’s bill has been killed at least nine times.
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