Radical Menstruation

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A) Menstruation is a bodily function.
B) Bodily functions are a source of puerile humor.
C) 95% of my posts are puerile humor.

A + B + C = In what alternate universe is it a shocking travesty that I would see the phrase "Radical Menstruation" and make fun of it?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Heck, *I* make fun of "radical menstration". But it's the radical part that's funny, not the menstration.

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, didn't Ladyfest London do, like, Radical Knitting or something?

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Hippies?

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

A + B + C = In what alternate universe is it a shocking travesty that I would see the phrase "Radical Menstruation" and make fun of it?

It's not just you, and I remember similar reactions on a previous menstruation thread. But I've nothing against humour, as long as there is more than that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

What single thing could make an every-day event radical? A sweatband? Mountain Dew in hand? What....?

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I much prefer the idea of Radical Knitting than sitting around talking about making your own pads...

― elisabeth k, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Markism.

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

It is reading threads like this that I really, really wish I was a boy.

Word.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Radical Knitting would rule.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to know more about the tampon corporation sponsored sex education thing - how exactly does this work? Tampon company people come and tell you about menstruation while displaying their products? I feel terribly ignorant here, but do all kinds of companies sponsor classes in US school? Like, food manufacturers teaching kids how to cook their brand of meetballs?

By the way Toumas OTM.

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, I mean Tuomas naturally.

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, this sponsorship thing sounds really odd to a Scandinavian, I think we have laws against such practice.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

this is deeply shameful of me, but i find menstruation kind of icky, the whole idea of bleeding non stop for fivee days, etc.

i am sure this makes me a bad man and a worse femminist.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

B-but it's part of the life cycle!

(Yeah, it's icky)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean... EJACULATION!!! That has got to be, like, the ickiest thing of all! Mingled mucus-stuff and sperm, shooting out of your organ! And then it goes all filmy if you don't clean it up right away. Man, is that gross! I'd rather bleed anyday, thanks.

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate has a good point.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, if bleeding felt as good as ejaculation...

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Women's orgasms are way better, come on.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, can't (some?) women ejaculate?

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Multiple orgasms, hello! This weekend HSA decided to keep count. We got to 7. :-)

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, he kept count?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And also ejaculation doesn't last for days on end.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And also boys can have multiple orgasms.

I AM STILL SIGNING UP FOR BOYHOOD.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

He kept count of mine, that is.

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.current.org/ch/ch0121sesame1.jpg

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a mighty organ there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Are condoms non-invasive birth control? I mean, talk about an conundrum...

― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG Dan I kiss you.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of women in bands, or womyn if you prefer.

I do not.

― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Women's orgasms are way better, come on.
-- Sarah McLusky (x77tigersxu...), November 5th, 2003.

Multiple orgasms, hello! This weekend HSA decided to keep count. We got to 7. :-)
-- Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (masonicboo...), November 5th, 2003.

I feel cheated :-(

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to know more about the tampon corporation sponsored sex education thing - how exactly does this work?

The tampon/pad companies supply the teaching materials -- videos, guides for teachers, information sheets, free samples. Usually the teaching itself is done by a school nurse or someone in a similar capacity.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

A few important points:

There has been no one in the history of the world able to confidently judge who gets the better orgasms.

Periods are clearly great. All that looking hot in tight white shorts while rollerblading => I wish I had them.

Anthony, see the teacher in South Park's "I don't trust anything that can bleed for five days without dying."

More seriously, although I can't imagine why anyone would want to hand make towels/tampons, any more than they would want to handmake almost anything else, I think there is a lot of ground to be gained in the attitude to menstruation. It is seen as dirty and shameful and the like by a lot of people (I obviously don't just mean men) and women are loathe to talk openly about it, and there is a lot of ignorance. I can't begin to guess how many times, when buying sanitary towels in the supermarket for my then-wife, the cashiers tried to wrap them up separately from everything else, to hide them. We've all known and heard of plenty of young girls who have been terrified when they got their first period. Ladyfest is small-time and won't change anything, but a genuinely outrageous and extreme opposition to these problems might lead us towards a more sane synthesis or middle ground in the future.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Cherokee Hair, anyone?

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.iron-rose.com/IR/docs/menstrualslavery.htm#Duties

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 6 November 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony is braver than I am.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Well my head hurts now...

― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 6 November 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

More seriously, although I can't imagine why anyone would want to hand make towels/tampons, any more than they would want to handmake almost anything else

There are some scare stories circulating about dioxins in name-brand tampons and other products. (Yes, dioxins are nasty; no, reputable scientists do not think they are in tampons in high enough a concentration to cause the problems these scare stories claim.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 6 November 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Are dioxins the new Toxic Shock Syndrome? Cause I was so scared of TSS as a teenager that I never tried tampons, and by the time I was old enough not to be scared, I realised I was never going to get used to tampons, they were too uncomfortable!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

They are far more comfy than towels, if they're in right you shouldnt be able to feel them anyway. The taboo are periods is odd in my life. I talk openly & freely about them with j & have never felt embarassed or anything (this may have something to do with the fact that he grew up in a house full of women) but my dad would leave the room if me & my mum were talking about them. Prob partly embarassed but mostly because he always thought it was so unfair that I should have to go thru that.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Mrs Tampax came to visit us at school with lots of free samples and a handy box to carry them in so nobody would know what had fallen out of your bag (except that every girl in your year had an identical handy box). The tampons were doused with ketchup and flung around the canteen at lunchtime.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I noticed that Sainsbury's had a very good selection of organic tampons when I was last there, they must have a demand for them.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I really honestly think that you have to start quite young on tampons to get used to them. Because I've never got my head - or rather, my twat - round the things. If I had had them explained to me at an early age (not necessarily in a Tampax sponsored health class, mind you) I might have got used to them.

Most boys are not so OK with feminine products. I knew it was love when HSA actually went out early one Sunday morning to get a pack of Always for me when I was caught out early!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I think there would be a problem if a male partner refused to purchase sanitary products.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I usually end up having to buy the condoms, so fair's fair.

(Though I do know girls who feel awkward and uncomfortable purchasing condoms, as well.)

Best purchase ever: a bottle of vodka, a box of condoms and a jar of vaseline. (All for totally unrelated purposes, but it did make the counter girl at Sainsburys stare.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

sounds like a classic night! I have bought condoms in the past which can feel a bit weird. Best thing to do is buy them with your shopping. It's better if you're there with your partner though, esp if there's an older lady at the checkout. Classic if it's a young lad though, just watch him go red! *sniggers & points*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I like to get condoms at pharmacies cause it feels all medicinal, like. (Plus Boots own brand are often cheaper.) I feel very kinky carrying them around in a paper bag!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

they're so expensive, I'm glad i don't have to use em.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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