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more about #tampons more comments → MarissaExplainsItAll: It's all fun and games and fighting the power and such until a "supressed" male decides that erections need to be made public. more » just assign me a random number: Just heard about this yesterday: The museum of menstruation. [atlasobscura.com] The website's a mess, but I can imagine the new museum turning out p... more » JerseyGrrrl: Look, if a man decides that blowing a load on a newspaper page is art, and New York City believes him, then this is art. It's making me think, and I l... more » Plum-Pie: Am I the only one whose read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland? A segment in which the women in the office talk about periods and you also see the IMs be... more » embarcadero13: I feel like this gives feminism a bad name. more » TheUptightMidwesterner: Urban Decay has got to take that color and name for a new lipstick: "Menarchy". THEN it may get put on my lips! more » JinxyMcDeath: I don't want to smear discharge on my face either...I don't think that means I'm not "emancipated." more » greengrey: Um. Her lipstick is bleeding. more » Norton: Hey, I've tasted my own menstrual blood! *edit for TMI* It's not actually that great, guys. I don't think my feminist card got upgraded to platinum a... more » Plum-Pie: I recently heard about a new charity, Huru, which provides reusable sanitary products to girls in Kenya (manufactured locally) so they don't have to u... more » TheUptightMidwesterner: I guess I am just gonna go back and be chattel and wear a chastity belt and some freaking corsets cause I am giving this a BIG FAT NO!!!!!! "Quick! W... more » Ruby_de_la_Booby: I call the blood at the beginning and end of my period "A1 Steak Sauce," but I ain't gonna season red meat with it. more » Lady Skittlehattington: I love my Diva Cup. I really do. But I'm one of the tiny percentage who can't use it without overflowing it within five minutes. So for my contributio... more » Sputnik_Sweetheart: Well, I guess I'm not emancipated, then. But on the other hand, nosebleeds also make me queasy (made it really hard to watch Lost last season). more » Dallifornia: Why so SERIOUS? more » -
#periodpieces
Bloody Hell: Menstrual Activists Make Periods Public
Today we learned an awesome new word: Menarchy, or menstrual anarchy. This is just one name for the growing movement to make "the curse" something a little more bearable. Or, as the case may be, wearable. More » -
#ablessingforthecurse
But Does It Have The Midas Touch?
Has someone you love recently retired from a long and accomplished career of menstruation? Why not recognize her monthly achievements with this tasteful Golden Tampon Lifetime Achievement Award? Warning: do not insert. [Craftzine] -
#modernmenstruation
Call Me Old-Fashioned, But...
Sociological Images posted a smart breakdown of vintage tampon ads, which present their products as "modern" and women who do not use them as "old-fashioned." But can you imagine having to explain tampons to your mom? [Contexts] -
#periodpieces
Linda's Film About Menstruation: An Intentionally Funny '70s Filmstrip
In this surprisingly charming and funny filmstrip, a girl named Judy and her boyfriend take a trippy journey and learn everything they need to know about menstruation. (Let's not take the film's advice and use two tampons at once!) More » -
#potpsychology
"Do I Have To Change My Tampon Every Time I Pee?"
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the biweekly "advice" column in which we attempt to solve everyone's problems with an herbal remedy. More » -
#superabsorbency
"Are You Sure I'll Still Be A Virgin?"
The challenging - and euphemism-filled - history of tampon advertising is one long, strange trip.
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#periodpieces
Ocean Not Having A Happy Period As Tampon Applicators Wash Up On Canadian Shores
A "major hydraulic failure" at a sewage treatment plant in Halifax, Nova Scotia has caused authorities to remove four solid waste outflow filters "as they were backing up with what the mayor called 'floatables,'" a.k.a. flushed tampon applicators. More » -
#badvertising
Blame Twilight
An all-male creative team in Switzerland have created this vampire-themed ad for o.b. Click for larger image. [Copyranter] -
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#periodproblems
Bloody Hell
Where was this woman when Moe needed her last May? A female doctor has taken to the web in order to offer advice on how to deal with "lost tampons". [Doc Gurley, KevinMD]
