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
I AM STILL SIGNING UP FOR BOYHOOD.
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
I do not.
― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
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 years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:14 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 6 November 2003 03:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 05:06 (twenty years ago) link
― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 6 November 2003 05:19 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:35 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link