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In reply to the discussion: Woman freely bleeds running London Marathon without tampon [View all]montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)228. Bwaaaaaaaahhhhh!
This one almost made me pee my pants!LOL
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She goes to Harvard and is kind of a rocket scientist and a Think Leader. She's also a professional
underahedgerow
Aug 2015
#126
When people bleed in sports, there's doctors or personal trainers that take care of it.
Deadshot
Aug 2015
#26
I don't care what it says. Look at the photo from the end of the race at the link. Please
Beaverhausen
Aug 2015
#53
LOL flowing down her leg? Do you think our periods are like a cut wound that bleeds without clotting
underahedgerow
Aug 2015
#103
There's a difference between getting hurt by accident and purposefully letting blood drip.
Deadshot
Aug 2015
#112
She was not "letting blood drip," and her blood did not "go all over the place."
City Lights
Aug 2015
#121
you gotta be a man. Ignorant or you just wanna argue? I'M A GAL, I DON'T BLEED GALLONS OF BLOOD!
trueblue2007
Aug 2015
#167
You apparently are fact-deprived. Do you think she was spraying blood? She wasn't.
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#223
Get real. You're not going to get HIV by stepping, in your shoes, in blood with HIV.
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#222
Any boxing match or at least boxing card, anyone near the ring is going to get blood
brewens
Aug 2015
#39
I went and looked and it seems they have been tested for several years now. n/t
brewens
Aug 2015
#163
The late Grete Waitz ran Boston in shorts while suffering from a bout of diarrhea.
Gormy Cuss
Aug 2015
#159
Yeaah, as an experienced runner I cringed at the thought of bloody thighs, for whatever reason.
sir pball
Aug 2015
#97
Except on football Sundays when a mere drop of blood is little more than a badge of honor.
LanternWaste
Aug 2015
#19
Some of the responses on here show why girls drop out of school when they get their periods.
Brickbat
Aug 2015
#16
EXCUSE ME, please put a pad on that emoticon. It's unhygienically leaking all over.
Brickbat
Aug 2015
#30
pffffffffffffffftt, it's day 1 period, which is not squirting blood 10 ft out of her vagina.
PeaceNikki
Aug 2015
#36
I suppose we merely imagine the blood stained uniforms and players on Sunday afternoons football gam
LanternWaste
Aug 2015
#79
There are THOUSANDS of bloody nipples in every marathon. I hope you're as verklempt about them!
PeaceNikki
Aug 2015
#60
Bwahahahahah that's the one that sent me over the edge into giggles of hysteria... after reading
underahedgerow
Aug 2015
#105
When a person bleeds in football, he's taken off the field and tended to by doctors.
Deadshot
Aug 2015
#106
So, the NFL is bleeding over itself. What specific illnesses has it led to?
LanternWaste
Aug 2015
#116
You're moving the goalposts. Either it's concern across the board or it's not.
LanternWaste
Aug 2015
#132
Bringing the NFL into this is the logical fallacy of appealling to hypocrisy.
Deadshot
Aug 2015
#137
NFL players purposefully stay on the field during play, hence your movement of goalposts.
LanternWaste
Aug 2015
#141
Once again, the men getting all worked up over a chick's uterine functions.
underahedgerow
Aug 2015
#110
I'm a dame, and I think it's nasty. Since when has "free bleeding" been something to support????
WinkyDink
Aug 2015
#184
You don't have to necessarily 'support' something to see it as a natural part of biology.
randome
Aug 2015
#233
Wouldn't be any worse if a person cut their finger and was bleeding. I doubt if she..
BlueJazz
Aug 2015
#156
It's been years ago but I remember that uncomforable feeling...there was no help
CTyankee
Aug 2015
#179
As a female, i see zero reason to "applaud" this woman. Bodily fluids ought remain out of public
WinkyDink
Aug 2015
#183
I thought of that story, as well, in relation to this one. Lots of mentally ill people out there.
closeupready
Aug 2015
#241
What if she started AFTER the race began. I don't think she should be expected to
ALBliberal
Aug 2015
#201
Ok, I guess I just don't get it. As a man, as a person, if I were bleeding and had the opportunity
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2015
#202