― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
I consider myself a feminist, but being around people like my mom for years and years has made me develope quite a sense of humor about this sort of thing.
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
I went to a couple of workshops, not about menstruation, and they were fascinating.
Men never really get to know abt the full cycle, which is a shame.
At the risk of sounding like a TOTAL idiot, is it true that sometimes the cycle gets linked to the moon? I read it on a quite believable website, but it seems a bit unlikely.Seriously, I don't know!
― mei (mei), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
Generally, womens' menstral cycles tend to just synch up to whatever woman they spend the largest amount of time in close proximity to. Unless they're on the pill. Selfish women, going on the pill and wrecking havoc with their sisters' cycles!
― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
People's reactions to the extreme (including my own dislike of Womyn etc.) is rather tempered by the idea that many of the more moderate ideas of feminism have already been accepted into the mainstream.
― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
At last a legit context for me to shout "MENSES FIGHT"!
(ew)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
I had a look at the Manchester Ladyfest website but the kinds of bands and workshops didn't appeal, so I didn't check it out.
My sex ed classes in 1980s Toronto were ok - we definitely went through everything in a lot of detail. The boys were made to sit through it too, although they were banned from the breast self-examination film (but were peering desperately through the door when it was screened!)
I do think pads/tampons should be a lot cheaper, but I especially think that condoms, pregnancy tests, the pill etc. are insanely overpriced - and I mean as in Boots or Superdrug, as not many people are likely to travel to the family planning clinics that dish stuff out for free or nearly free. Younger peeps with limited spending money are not going to fork out £6.99 for 12 condoms (about the cheapest you can do from Boots)
― elisabeth k, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
I bet there is no Ladyfest or such nonsense in Finland because they have no NEED of such nonsense. Sigh.
Now that you mention it, what is Ladyfest exactly?
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― mei (mei), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
You're a guy? Oh, sorry, I never paid attention to your e-mail address, I thought you were a girl with a Japanese name (Mei is a woman's name in Japan).
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:23 (twenty years ago) link
― elisabeth k, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
Word.
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
By the way Toumas OTM.
― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
i am sure this makes me a bad man and a worse femminist.
― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
(Yeah, it's icky)
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
― mei (mei), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
It's getting A-SPENSIVE.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 30 January 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i read this as racial menstruation :/
― velko, Friday, 30 January 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Be colorblind, don't be so shallow.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 30 January 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://members.shaw.ca/revchu/stuff/men2zb.gif
― salsa shark, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Buy some cheap red t-shirts to cut up and use as supplemental pads?
― WmC, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
why isn't there a menstruation emoji
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
I just use the volcano emoji.
― Yerac, Friday, 11 January 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
well, then what do you use for volcanos
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 January 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
The dancing lady.
― Yerac, Friday, 11 January 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 January 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link