Reply #226: Once again, this is not about judging your worth as a person.

[noamnety]

We're discussing ONE issue in this thread. I don't know why you are acting like we are saying you are a bad environmentalist on the whole, when we're only discussing what is the environmentally sound way to handle menstrual blood. If you promote ill will and poor attitudes against any environmentally sound habit on this board, you should expect to be criticized for those comments. If I argued against growing your own food, saying it was gross to eat food that wasn't prepackaged, I would expect people on DU to smack me down on that issue whether or not in the rest of my life I am a good recycler and take public transportation and all.

"I am not promoting harmful habits"

Yeah, you kinda are. when you state, unequivocally, "Menstrual blood IS gross" in response to a conversation about reusing/recycling, you are promoting the use of disposable products. That's the message you are sending.

I also think you are being a bit hypocritical, because your own post came across as ridiculing and judging people for their personal decisions - which were the CORRECT ones, environmentally speaking, in this instance. You came off sounding like you think people who opt for reusable products like the OP promotes are doing something gross. And now you're acting like you're offended by anyone judging the personal choices we make.

Only you have interpreted this thread to mean that you can't call yourself an environmentalist if you don't make this one choice.

The rest of us understand that the thread is saying "Here is one thing you can do for the environment that is better (and cheaper) than this other thing you might be doing."